Photographer assaulted by Nicole Kidmans bodyguard

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Have a watch of the video and a read here, just after peoples opinions on this matter.
 
Well, body guards are supposed to protect their subject. In the UK they should be registered and use minimal force. Clearly the body guard had no need to use the method he did.
While some people like the paparazzi, others don't. Clearly this bloke didn't, but he is in a business, where he should handle the situation better than he did here.
 
I'm in two minds, this is only one side to the story.
OK, maybe he didn't deserve to be assaulted, but I don't like the whole intrusive paparazzi / following 'stars' everywhere thing (and I take great pleasure in telling my wife so when she buys OK / Hello etc).

Wonder what else there is to the story? (If there is more to it)
 
When celebrities become famous, they know what to expect.
There is no such thing as a 'normal life' when you're a celebrity.
Its all because of OK and Hello that this is the reason.
Because women have this unearthly obsession with celebrities.

Its a business, and while I don't agree with the intrusion into their lives, they knew this.
Its a double edged blade. You get rich, people will talk about you. End of.

A punch to the face when the paparazzi is stalking you, fair enough.
A full on beating?
This guy should be convicted of assault and whatever else they can get him with.
completely unjust.
 
I agree with Marcel and foodpoison, there might be something else to it and while people say celebrates should expect this sort of thing they too should be able to have a life. However I doubt any actions deserved the beating he got :shake:.
 
natjag said:
In the UK they should be registered and use minimal force.
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In the UK they have to be trained and have a card saying blar blar blar and they only can use minimal force. Only the police can take that father if needs be i think
 
Celebrities want the fame and celebrity so bad they can taste it and this comes with the territory, it's ridiculous to think otherwise, their freedom and privacy is largely gone - forever. If they didn't know that going in, then they're in cloud cuckoo land.

The paparazzi are nothing to do with the kind of tog I want to be - they have no respect for people's privacy whatsoever. Having said that the celebs and the paps feed off each other - there can't be one without the other, but celebs make the mistake of thinking they can use the paps when they want to, and they can't - once you've got 'em you've got 'em!

That assault was a disgusting piece of unrestrained violence by a supposesd pro bodyguard who should know better, and he should have the book thrown at him.
 
Perhaps journalists and paps should get together and flatly refuse prima donnas like kidman etc and their bodyguards any form of publicity whether advertising a new movie or whatever. I'd like to see the power of the press for once deny these ****s any publicity of any sorts, I'm sure it would hurt their career greatly if the newspapers etc refused to name them in the papers/mags. Tv and movie companies don't want has beens that cant be publicly shown cos cameramen the world over refuse to photograph them.
 
frank said:
Perhaps journalists and paps should get together and flatly refuse prima donnas like kidman etc and their bodyguards any form of publicity whether advertising a new movie or whatever. I'd like to see the power of the press for once deny these ****s any publicity of any sorts, I'm sure it would hurt their career greatly if the newspapers etc refused to name them in the papers/mags. Tv and movie companies don't want has beens that cant be publicly shown cos cameramen the world over refuse to photograph them.
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Would never happen.
It would be wonderful, but would never happen.
There will always be shots of celebrities, whether it be on an average Joe's camera phone, or on a pro pap's 1dmk3.
Supply and demand.
 
foodpoison said:
Well said CT :thumbs:

I actually found the video quite sickening.
The guy was screaming. He was really scared.
Awful stuff.
No need for it.
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Maybe its just me being detached, but watching it, all I saw was a guy walking towards the camera in a threatening manner, then a skewy shot of him briefly quite possibly attacking the guy carrying the camera (diving in through the window), after the guy kicked out at the bodyguard.

Then all I heard was an audio overlay of them arguing and him screaming.

Didn't see much though, so to be fair...the screaming could be for effect, you even hear the bodyguard say "I didn't do anything".

Not saying he's innocent, but I really don't believe everything I hear or read (especially without actually seeing it all and being in full posession of the facts). I wonder what happened before this incident? (as in directly before).
 
There is always another side to every story, this site is obviously very sided towards the pap as he's employed by them. aside from that I agree with CT, Im really not a fan of pap. and try to distance myself from that as much as possible.
 
I'v always disliked Pap photographers, I personally don't really class them as photographers, they just use photography as a tool to effectivley make profit from spying on celebs. It dosen't take alot of skill to become a pap, you don't really need to know alot about photography or even your camera in some cases, you just need to be able to get to the right place at the right time. I'm sure there are plenty who are professional photographers, but I feel that they could make far better use of their skills.

On the other hand, they do get alot of grief, violence and abuse. In some cases it's pretty exsessive.

I'd NEVER become a pap, even if I got paid a shedload.
 
Love them or hate them, the paparazzi help make these 'celebs'.
They keep them in the limelight and are constantly manipulated by many of these so called 'stars'.

This assault, while being a dispicable act of violence, won't do Ms Kidman any harm.
There's an old Hollywood saying "All news is good news".

As we all know, the press have the power to make and break people.
Sometimes, they seem to enjoy destroying careers of people.
Nicole Kidman at this moment in time, is in a very elite group of people.
She is almost untouchable, but one or two more incidents like this or if she lets her guard slip, the hounds will jump on her...I'm sure Britney Spears would vouch for this.

I think it's a myth that these modern day celebs can't lead normal lives.
There are much bigger fish than Kidman who have always managed to avoid being constantly in the newspapers.
This is because they have good relationships with the press, forged by mutually agreed rules and trust.

Kidman comes across as a prima donna and imo a not very talented one at that.
The time will come when the shutters stop firing and before that day, I suggest she sits down and watches a truly great Hollywood film that might help improve her acting ability and indeed her life skills...

Sunset Boulevard.
 
I cannot see anything on that video that actually shows an attack, just some fuzzy images of someone leaning into a window and then a lot of shouting whilst other photos are shown.

I feel that everyone is entitled to privacy, if they are out "on show" and doing their job then photograph them but if they are doing their normal day to day activities such as jogging, shopping, anything with their children they should be left alone. Of course this would put a lot of people out of work such as the paparazzi, various magazines and some newspapers :shrug: If "celebrities" were not constantly followed and photographed (after they had leaked where they are going to be) then there would probably also be a lot less of them

Christine
 
CT said:
Celebrities want the fame and celebrity so bad they can taste it and this comes with the territory, it's ridiculous to think otherwise, their freedom and privacy is largely gone - forever. If they didn't know that going in, then they're in cloud cuckoo land.
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You're pretty quick in putting them all into one bag there.
Why should someone, whether he/she wants to be famous or not, become stalked and lose pretty much all of their privacy? Sure, they might expect to become watched when they're somewhere to show off, but being stalked while jogging, riding in a car, etc. that's sick.


CT said:
The paparazzi are nothing to do with the kind of tog I want to be - they have no respect for people's privacy whatsoever. Having said that the celebs and the paps feed off each other - there can't be one without the other, but celebs make the mistake of thinking they can use the paps when they want to, and they can't - once you've got 'em you've got 'em!
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Can't disagree with that.

CT said:
That assault was a disgusting piece of unrestrained violence by a supposesd pro bodyguard who should know better, and he should have the book thrown at him.
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It was, but not everything has been shown in the video.
They didn't show what happened before, nor much of the actual beating.
Most of what I heard was the pap insulting the bodyguard, although the bodyguard seems to be the one who struck first.
 
There was only one pap following the car? that's unusual, no pics from another perspective.

Re the incident, It looks bad but we saw only the tail end of it, no way to tell what heppened before that to stir things up. Nevertheless the bodyguard is a fool for putting himself in this situation ( while leaving his charge to look after herself ).
The pap? you take the wages you take the associated risks, my guess is he crossed the line sometime earlier, he got a few bruises and a load of publicity and will most likely sue for a shedload.

Re the blurb accompanying the video, it reads like Heather Mills testomony, biased and twisted to suit Flynets need for hype.
 
The body guard should of called the Police and said who he was and what the problem was. Not just beat him up.

I can see both sides here but he would been better off letting the Police come with their guns to sort it out!!

SB
 
I'm not going to comment on the rights and wrongs of this but there is no way that guy is a bodyguard, he used to be a driver for Tom Cruise but he's just a minder and there is a big difference. A professional bodyguard would never have left Nicole Kidman like that, for all he knew it could have been a decoy set up with the intention of creating a vulnerable situation which would have left the principal wide open to attack.

They are all as bad as each other in my opinion, the pap for being a pap :D, the minder for acting like a rank amateur and Flynet are contemptible - did you read all the insinuations about Kidman and the 'bodyguard'. What a poxy world we live in sometimes.
 
I've never had these problems taking pics of flowers so thats where I'll stay, but then I dont get much of a kick out of chasing them around all day :bang:
 
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