'I Was a Bodyguard For Kendall Jenner'
When I was a child, all I ever wanted was to be a soldier, and at 19, I joined the British Army. But after 5 years, I was on operations in Iraq and was offered a job by a private security company there who were looking after an American oil company. Over three years in the early 2000s, I moved around as a private security contractor in Iraq. It was dangerous. Lots of guys who stayed in our hotel in Baghdad went out and didn't come back.
He had come to London for the World Music Awards in 2006 and was staying at the Hempel Hotel in Bayswater. There were fans who had flown in from all over the world and bought rooms in the hotel just so they could be in the lobby when he came down each day. They all had black cabs booked for the whole day so they could run out, jump in the black cab and follow us wherever we went. His fans weren't violent, but it was the sheer volume of them, and the fact that they were always there.
However, in 2010 I had also started my own private security company. So when I eventually returned to London in 2013, I started working as a bodyguard for other celebrities. I did some security work at Kate Moss' house and I looked after her once at a fashion show and I was Rita Ora's bodyguard on various trips outside the U.K. I did quite a bit of work with Naomi Campbell over the years.
She would come to London for dress fittings, fashion shows and shoots, and in between that there might be dinner and shopping if there was time. But often, especially with shoots, she was up at 5.30am, at a shoot at 6.30am and finished at 7pm at night with multiple outfit and hair and makeup changes. It was hard work.
Over the 15 years I worked in private security, I've probably been on red carpets for about an hour. But that's what aspiring bodyguards out there see. That day, I would have actually got up at 5am and been at the celebrity's hotel at 6am. I'd have worked all day with them at shoots or events or fittings, and then an evening event and a club afterwards that might have ended at 4am.
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