Harry and Meghan biographer Omid Scobie denies he is the Sussexes' 'mouthpiece' trends now
Harry and Meghan biographer Omid Scobie angrily insisted today that he is not the couple’s ‘friend, mouthpiece, cheerleader’ as he gave evidence at the High Court for the prince.
In a dramatic clash, Mr Scobie denied having a ‘vested interest’ in the Duke of Sussex’s case against a newspaper publisher for alleged phone hacking.
As he took to the witness box, the author of gushing biography Finding Freedom repeatedly dismissed suggestions that his ‘sympathies’ lay with Harry.
The duke and others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, over stories they claim were the result of phone hacking or other illegal information gathering. The paper denies the claims.
Today the court heard that when he was a journalism student in 2002, Mr Scobie did work experience at the Daily Mirror, where he claimed he witnessed then-editor Piers Morgan being told that a story about Kylie Minogue ‘had come from voicemails’.
Harry and Meghan biographer Omid Scobie angrily insisted yesterday that he is not the couple’s ‘friend, mouthpiece, cheerleader’ as he gave evidence at the High Court for the prince. Pictured: Mr Scobie arriving outside the High Court in London today
Prince Harry (pictured with his wife Meghan) and others are suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, over stories they claim were the result of phone hacking or other illegal information gathering. The paper denies the claims
Mr Scobie claimed he overheard the conversation between the editor and the women who ran his ‘3am Girls’ showbiz column, with whom he was ‘captivated’.
The royal journalist also said that when he did work experience at The People a few weeks earlier, he had been given a list of celebrities’ mobile phone numbers and shown how to access voicemails.
He had been ‘taken aback by what seemed completely immoral and I never carried out the task’, the judge was told.
Mr Scobie rejected suggestions he had either ‘innocently
