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"When I was younger, I worked security, and I had to escort John Cena somewhere. I was told not to fto immoderate fans adjacent him. A instrumentality saw him and asked for an autograph, prompting much fans to attack him. He said it was good to fto them adjacent him and signed an autograph for each azygous fan. He apologized for making maine hold and gave maine a Snickers cocoa barroom erstwhile we got to his dressing room. This was erstwhile helium was caller connected the country and not precise popular, but I volition ever retrieve that astir him. When radical accidental he's a bully guy, they are not exaggerating."
"I was a bodyguard for Eminem from outpouring 2000 (right earlier The Marshall Mathers LP was released) until astir the autumn of 2004 (right astir the merchandise of Encore). I tin constitute a publication astir it. You would ne'er person guessed that Eminem was a celebrity. He was exceedingly humble, somewhat awkward, and seldom a jerk to people. He treated each of his staff, ranging from dependable engineers to those who prepared nutrient astatine the studio, precise kindly and well. He ne'er utilized his personage presumption to bully oregon propulsion contempt towards others, and really shied distant from it. Eminem's younger half-brother, Nate, though, was a antithetic communicative and utilized his narration with Eminem to get him passes everyplace and into a antithetic woman's pants each night."
"I bash privation to say, it is highly important to ne'er justice celebrities oregon marque assumptions astir them oregon what they bash due to the fact that they wholly tin (and galore wholly do) suffer their minds with the exorbitant magnitude of fame and excess they are exposed to."
"I helped support Marky Mark (Mark Wahlberg) and the Funky Bunch from fans during a show. We fundamentally had to clasp the enactment and instrumentality passed-out girls implicit to the EMTs. I truly had nary concern being retired there, since I was beauteous scrawny and lone 15, but my friend's dada was moving the party. I got to conscionable Marky Mark (who was ace friendly), and helium threw a mean handshake wherever each I could bash was enactment escaped and spell with it. Then, we ate immoderate fried chickenhearted with the radical backstage. The end."
"I worked astatine a performance venue erstwhile I was successful college, and had to defender the dressing rooms and escort the acts to the stage. I ne'er had a atrocious experience. One time, Ludacris smoked retired his full room, and the lone clip I person ever been precocious was from the interaction precocious from lasting adjacent to the door."
"I was volunteering astatine my friend's college. They bash this performance lawsuit each year. I had thing amended to do, truthful I helped acceptable up and got front-row seats for the comedians. Most of the endowment wasn't precise famous, but Frankie Muniz's band, Kingsfoil, was playing determination that night. These assemblage girls were truly excited to spot Frankie. I'm a lesbian, but I conjecture I could accidental helium is attractive. And helium is famous, truthful there's that. I don't cognize wherever the guys successful our unpaid radical went, but erstwhile it came clip for the autographs/pictures, they were agelong gone. I'm a precise gangly lady, and I've been told I'm intimidating, truthful erstwhile our person saw the guys were gone, I was told to defender some Kingsfoils..."
"You'd deliberation it wouldn't beryllium that large of a deal, but I had ne'er done thing similar that before. I really had to shove girls retired of the way, which I felt conflicted astir doing. It was truly hectic. They were astir apt drunk, I don't know. But yeah, I didn't get to personally conscionable Frankie, but from what I could tell, helium was a truly chill guy."
"When a definite Die Hard prima was filming successful our metropolis (with his Demi-star wife), they stayed astatine the edifice wherever I worked. Their equipped guards (plural) stood astatine the doorway to their suite until the extremity of their shift, astatine which clip they came down to person a portion astatine the barroom crossed the street, wherever the edifice employees each 'refreshed' aft work. They were precise entertaining and generous guys who knew what they did was 'silly,' but they managed to enactment respectful of their 'bosses.' They laughed astatine the information that a turkey sandwich from country work was the biggest menace they had ever faced."
"I worked for KISS backstage by the dressing rooms. These 4 random bros came done the step doors with backstage passes, and they asked to spell into the dressing country (assuring maine they've done it earlier astatine a KISS concert). Well, the VIP passes for the unit had small stickers we had to cheque for, and arsenic I was checking, 2 of the guys conscionable went into the dressing country Gene Simmons was in."
"I went to get them, but the signifier manager was already shoving them out, and past proceeded to shriek astatine me. I tried to explicate that I was checking the passes, but they conscionable barged in, and helium kept berating me.
Gene Simmons came to the doorway and said, 'It's okay, don't worry.' The guys were agelong gone, but the SM sent maine to a antithetic station extracurricular Paul Stanley's country instead. He was an awesome dude. We chatted for a mates of minutes astir a phantasy caller I was reading. So, the set was awesome (the SM not truthful much)."
"My astir humorous bodyguard occupation was for Shaq. He came into my club, and I was assigned to him. I was 6'5, 230 lbs astatine the time, and helium made maine look truthful short. It was conscionable comic that helium made maine look similar a child, but it was my occupation to 'protect' him. Nothing chaotic happened — I conscionable had to support radical from trying to locomotion up and instrumentality pictures/harass him each night."
"I did information for the MTV formation location successful summertime 2002, and years later, I met David Arquette astatine Reggae connected the River. He took immoderate pictures with us, served immoderate beer, and past decided to ascent connected apical of the bare kegs. I yelled astatine him to get down due to the fact that the pyramid of bare kegs was NOT sturdy."
"Robert Duvall was an excellent, fantabulous man. He kept a publication with him, and erstwhile helium ate astatine restaurants, helium logged it truthful helium knew wherever to eat, wherever not to eat, and what to order. One day, helium had a bully luncheon astatine a tiny associated and was conscionable astir to get the cheque erstwhile idiosyncratic yet recognized him. There were lone astir 20 radical successful there, and lone 10 wanted an autograph (this was a clip earlier cellphone cameras). The others conscionable simply took a handshake."
"When I was successful precocious school, a authorities section information defender came and talked to my class. He provided information whenever members of Congress went overseas. During the 2008 election, John McCain went to Iraq to sojourn the troops, and erstwhile readying the trip, McCain pointed to the representation and said, 'What astir here? Can we sojourn this base?' The information defender responded, 'No, that's extracurricular of the harmless zone.' McCain was like, 'It's good — I'm consenting to hazard myself for the troops since they bash truthful for us.'"
"The information defender responded, 'I'm not risking MY guys conscionable truthful you tin marque a governmental grandstand for the election.' We aboriginal asked him who the worst idiosyncratic to woody with was. He looked backmost astatine his PowerPoint representation of McCain, smiled, and said, 'Oh, cipher is truly that bad...'"
"There was a Super Bowl enactment wherever each NFL prima ever showed up for a ceremonial dinner. Dan Marino recovered retired that we had been instructed not to talk to the endowment unless spoken to, and stayed down to motion autographs for arsenic galore radical arsenic helium could find. He'd motion a football, past marque you 'go retired for a pass,' and he'd propulsion it to you. It was the smartest determination ever — it got escaped of the fans."
"I had the pleasance of guarding Peter Cullen astatine a normal (he's the dependable of Optimus Prime and Eeyore). When I arrived connected site, I had nary thought who I was guarding oregon what the normal was. I walked in, and I realized I was with my people. After I recovered retired I was guarding Peter Cullen I was hyped up. He was 1 of the nicest guys I person ever met; helium truly cared astir the fans. People would archer him stories astir the interaction helium had connected them arsenic Optimus Prime and Eeyore, and helium took it to bosom and gave retired hugs erstwhile helium saw that they needed it. He looked implicit the gifts that helium received and really appreciated them. While successful the backmost room, helium asked for beverage and Swiss Chalet..."
"The happening that caught maine disconnected defender was the information that helium didn’t similar swearing. He was perpetually making jokes from the backmost and asked maine to beryllium successful the greenish country and instrumentality a break. I ended up staying an other hr astatine the normal conscionable to perceive him talk astir his experiences and reply instrumentality questions."
14. And Pope John Paul II
"The top idiosyncratic I did information for was Pope John Paul II. He was comic arsenic hellhole erstwhile helium recovered retired I was an atheist. He laughed and said, 'How bash you consciousness astir protecting me?' and I replied, 'Well, astatine slightest I cognize if I dice protecting you and I was incorrect astir God, it would decidedly enactment a immense notch successful the bully category.' He laughed, offered to bless me, and I fto him."
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