Simon Newton - The Celebrity Bodyguard
Disruptors
Rob Moore
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Former military and celebrity bodyguard Simon Newton shares stories from protecting the likes of Michael Jackson to surviving convoy attacks in Iraq. Rob digs into Simon's journey from the British military to becoming Jason Statham's body double in Hollywood. Learn how Simon leveraged his security connections to build a thriving private firm and clothing line. Simon talks openly and honestly to Rob about everything from ambushes on the streets of Baghdad to partying with Kendall Jenner!
Simon Reveals:
- How he protected Michael Jackson on his first-ever London security job
- How he narrowly escaped death
- Why he helped sneak Bella Hadid into a protest march
- His thoughts on AI
- How to turn elite contacts into business opportunities,
- How he has survived countless convoy ambushes in the Middle East
- What has caused theft and violent crime in London to skyrocket
- The only way to get conviction rates up in the UK
- How he leveraged publicity from security jobs into launching a profitable fashion brand.
BEST MOMENTS
"Disruptive means naughty. Ha! Possibly exploiting topics that maybe people don't like to talk about."
"I called Michael Jackson's team with no celebrity security experience. Two weeks later I was guarding the King of Pop himself."
"Rockets hit and set our Baghdad hotel's upper floors on fire. We survived, but I questioned why I took the job."
"A woman was being violently stoned to death on the street. It opened my eyes to how cheap life is overseas."
"Flood London with double police to get conviction rates up. Petty theft is out of control with no support."
"Anyone who wears earphones in London should be shot. Why? It's so dangerous. I get up right behind women with bags open and then don't even know I'm there when you're trying to get past them in the street."
"I always look at what people are wearing. Look at how they're standing, look at what, what they're doing. Are they on their own? Have they got a bag? Are they with someone else? Are they on a phone?"
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| 0:00.0 | Crime in London going through the roof, the police drastically underfunded, and this is why I've got our special new guest on the show. |
| 0:10.0 | Simon Newton is bodyguard to the rich and famous. |
| 0:13.6 | Michael Jackson Rita Aora Kendall Jenner |
| 0:16.1 | of all had close protection from Simon Newton. |
| 0:19.4 | The world is a darker place right now. |
| 0:21.4 | That's why I'm having more conversations like this on my |
| 0:23.6 | show. I'd love to say you're going to love this, I think you will, but you |
| 0:26.9 | absolutely need this. And of course as always the disruptor spin and how |
| 0:31.4 | Simon Newton, an ordinary ordinary man became the bodyguard to the biggest |
| 0:35.5 | celebrities in the world. Let's do this. |
| 0:37.9 | Just have to be careful. There's lots to do around that when you're looking after people. |
| 0:43.0 | It's not just physically looking after people. |
| 0:45.0 | You have to think of their image and what they're doing next. |
| 0:49.0 | Simon, how did you become a bodyguard to the rich and famous? It's random. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah I mean it is. I didn't really start with that. I was in the British |
| 0:58.4 | military many years ago. I did the Iraq War 2003 around that time and while I was out there I was there for the part |
| 1:05.0 | sort of like near the end of the war the invasion and the start of the rebuild and |
| 1:09.8 | private security companies started coming out to Iraq |
| 1:13.5 | at the start of the rebuild. |
| 1:15.0 | And I had a friend of mine who had left the military previously |
| 1:18.0 | and he was working for one of them and I bumped into him and he said, |
| 1:20.0 | oh what are you doing out here? |
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