‘My sister’s a master manipulator who belongs behind bars!’ The brother of Instagram’s worst con artist Belle Gibson tells his side of the story… after she made a fortune by claiming a diet cured her cancer. Now she’s being immortalised on Netflix [Video]

12:06 EDT 30 Apr 2024, updated 13:06 EDT 30 Apr 2024

As children Nick Gibson and his sister Belle were the best of mates. They quibbled like any siblings but he recalls her being a placid and caring sister.

‘She was my best buddy growing up,’ he says. ‘We got on so well everyone thought we were twins.’

Fast forward three decades and the 35-year-old forklift operator is as horrified as anyone by the person his little sister has become.

Belle Gibson, it turns out, is a heartless hoaxer, a woman dubbed ‘Instagram’s worst con artist’ after she faked having terminal brain cancer to scam thousands of pounds out of her fans with her wellness advice and recipes.

Nick, who lives in Brisbane, Australia, with his wife and two children, is as decent as his sister is twisted. He is not autistic, as Belle once claimed. He simply struggles with reading and writing, he tells me.