Omid Scobie: the baby-faced ex-Tabloid reporter who became 'Meghan's mouthpiece'

For someone who claims he's not friends with the Sussexes, Omid Scobie certainly does a good job of making the opposite seem true.

Over the last seven years, the baby-faced former tabloid and K-pop reporter claims he's shared hugs and personal phone calls with the Duchess and was even chosen to attend her intimate final engagement as a working royal back in 2020. How does he know so much about Harry and Meghan ("Megs"), then, if he's not their friend, critics have asked. And why would he lay into every member of the royal family except for them in his latest book?

Scobie, 42, has been nicknamed "Meghan's mouthpiece" and the Sussexes' "cheerleader-in-chief" over the years since his bestselling biography of the couple, Finding Freedom, was published in 2020. Tomorrow sees the release of his second bombshell book about the royals, Endgame, and critics say it's just as explosive as his first — if not more so.

Among the claims revealed ahead of its publication are that King Charles insists staff iron his shoelaces, that "hot-headed" Prince William kept Scobie away from royal engagements for months after believing he was Prince Harry's "emissary", and that Meghan called Scobie personally to check on his welfare after she was told he had been harassed on social media. Friends then, surely? Not so, says an insistent Scobie.

"I'm not Meg's pal," he wrote on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, this week. "I am not their friend and never have been," he repeated in interviews, insisting it was through "mutual friends" with the couple that he gets his inside scoops.

The Oxford-raised Harper's Bazaar reporter — whose