#224. A-List Celebrity Bodyguard - Simon Newton
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Simon Newton is a former military operator and bodyguard.
From operating in Iraq and protecting the Commonwealth office in Afghanistan to working with Michael Jackson, Kendall Jenner and Rita Ora.
This is The Eventful Life of Mr Simon Newton
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| 0:00.0 | How did you go from the military to become an A-list celebrity bodyguard? |
| 0:04.0 | You put a machine gun on the back of the truck? |
| 0:06.0 | Yes, the two Iraqis used to stand in the back. |
| 0:08.0 | What was in it? |
| 0:10.0 | Cocaine? |
| 0:11.0 | No, heroin. |
| 0:12.0 | Neat. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | It's worth fortune. |
| 0:15.0 | Into Dubai. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | 2003 Iraq War was on. |
| 0:18.0 | Had two ex-US Navy seals working out there in Iraq as private security contractors. |
| 0:22.5 | They got shut up in their vehicle, dragged out, dragged through the streets and hung from a flyover, |
| 0:28.7 | set on fire. For private security contractors, you would normally have your head cut off. That was, |
| 0:32.9 | that was what they wanted to do. |
| 0:35.5 | Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, |
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| 0:45.8 | On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives. |
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| 0:56.0 | Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodall, where we've now had over 100 million views. Simon Newton is a former military operator and bodyguard from operating in Iraq and protecting the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Afghanistan to working with the likes of Michael Jackson, Kendall Jenner and Rita Aura. |
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