Rageh Omaar: Somali-born Oxford-educated migrant hailed as the 'Scud Stud' for ... trends now
ITV News presenter Rageh Omaar had to receive medical care last night after he became 'unwell' and stumbled over his words while live on air.
Somali-born British journalist Mr Omaar, 56, who was educated at Oxford University, made his name as the 'Scud Stud' for his widely hailed coverage of the Iraq War as BBC world affairs correspondent.
Mr Omaar is married to Georgiana Rose 'Nina' Montgomery-Cuninghame, the daughter of Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, the baronet - an aristocratic title below baron - of Cuninghame of Corsehill.
The couple share three children, Loula, Sami and Zachary and were last known to be living in Chiswick, west London.
One of five children, Mr Omaar was born on July 19, 1967 in Mogadishu, Somalia to mother Sahra and father Abdullahi Omaar, a businessman.
'Scud Stud': Rageh Omaar reports from Baghdad, Iraq for BBC 10 O'Clock News in March 2003
Mr Omaar pictured with his wife Georgiana Rose 'Nina' Montgomery-Cuninghame (right), the daughter of baronet Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill at a charity dinner in January 2007
His father became an accountant before setting up several businesses in Somalia. Speaking to the Guardian in 2017, he said he had a contract with Massey Ferguson tractors, introduced Coca-Cola to the country and also started Somalia's first independent newspaper.
The journalist arrived in London UK at the age of six in 1974, where he was educated at the Dragon School, a private prep school in Oxford, before being enrolled in top public school Cheltenham College.
He then went on to study a degree in Modern History at New College, Oxford.
Mr Omaar said that although his father founded a newspaper, he did not want his son to become a journalist as he did see it as a 'serious profession' and said he should study law.
But undeterred, the international journalist started his career in journalism working as a trainee for The Voice newspaper,
