Rageh's Rock: The Scottish baronet's daughter who has stood by the Scud Stud during his thrilling dispatches from war-torn Middle East and who will help him recover at home after on-air illness

Those who know ITV News anchor Rageh Omaar well will have no doubt he is in the best hands, recovering from his on-air illness at home with his beloved wife.

Mr Omaar, 62, has Georgina Rose 'Nina' Montgomery-Cuninghame, the daughter of Sir John Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill, the 12th baronet of Cuninghame of Corsehill, by his side.

They have three children, Loula, Sami and Zachary, and live at their home in Chiswick, west London.

His rock, Nina, is an instructor in the Alexander Technique, an alternative therapy designed to correct poor posture, and gives both online and one-to-one private lessons at her practice.

She has been a huge support to Mr Omaar throughout his career, including moving with him abroad while he covered foreign affairs.

The couple met while Rageh was at a cousin's wedding in India. 

Mr Omaar became known 20 years ago while covering events from Iraq as a BBC world affairs correspondent.

Mr Omaar's parents moved to the UK from Somalia, where they lived for 25 years, although according to the journalist they 'never really unpacked', with political upheaval preventing them from returning home. 

A non-practising Muslim married to a non-practising Christian wife, he said in 2004 that he wanted his children to be brought up with both.

The couple have kept their personal life largely private and low-key, and didn't even share pictures from their wedding. 

After attending the Dragon School, Mr Omaar graduated from New College, Oxford where he studied modern history. 

He revealed that his father tried to talk him out of going into journalism, dismissing it for not being a 'serious profession'. 

He started out as a trainee for the Voice newspaper, before he moved to Ethiopia where he freelanced as a foreign correspondent for the BBC.

Following a spell in London as a producer for the Corporation, his family moved with him to South Africa 

But it was after the 2003 Iraq invasion that he became a regular face on British screens, with his broadcasts regularly sent across the Pond, where he earned the nickname 'Scud Stud'. 

He won numerous awards for his exceptional work during this time, including a Peabody Award for BBC reports from Sudan and a BAFTA for his coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan in which he was the only western TV journalist to report from inside Taliban-held Kabul. 

Mr Omaar left the BBC in 2006 for Al Jazeera where he became a Middle East correspondent for its London division, notably presenting the documentary series Witness on weekday nights until 2010.

In an interview, he said that he left the broadcaster to have the freedom to do the projects he wanted as an 'independent journalist', while also lamenting that his Iraq coverage gave little coverage to ordinary people'.

The journalist joined ITV in January 2013 as a special correspondent. A year later he was promoted to the channel's international affairs editor.

Since October 2015, he has worked on the News At Ten, and has infrequently anchored ITV's Lunchtime and Evening News.

He fronted ITV's coverage of the late Queen Elizabeth II's funeral in September 2022.

He was nominated for the Services to Media award at the British Muslim Awards both in 2014 and 2015., having previously won the Arab Media Watch Award for excellence in journalism in 2008 and an Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy award for best TV journalist in 2003.

Earlier this month the self-professed Arsenal fan joked that it was 'regrettable' that his side were trailing Liverpool in the Premier League title race.

He said: 'To sport now and the tussle for the Premier League title is still as close as anything after Liverpool returned to the top of the table.

'They beat bottom club Sheffield United 3-1. Alexis Mac Allister got the goal that turned the game, so Liverpool are, regrettably, two points clear of Arsenal.'