No way Piers
Morgan will let a major Kim K news go past without sharing his opinion. Read
his piece below and share your thoughts.
Kim Kardashian
could be dead today. The gang of armed robbers who burst into her Paris
apartment at 3am weren’t mucking around. They were very serious criminals who had
clearly planned their attack for some time. The thugs tied her up at gunpoint
and stole an estimated $11 million worth of jewels. It was a vicious, nasty and
dangerous incident. But Kim was lucky."
This is Paris,
scene of two of the worst ISIS terror attacks in recent years.
She is
self-evidently a prime target for Islamic extremists, as a world famous woman
who represents everything they abhor about western civilisation.
Imagine if
those five men had been sent by Islamic State?
Doesn’t bear
thinking about does it, regardless of your views about Kim Kardashian?
(I myself have
criticised her repeatedly for posting nude selfies in the supposed name of
feminism, but this attack was a terrifying experience for any woman to endure
and she has my deepest sympathy.)
Only it DOES
bear thinking about.
In fact, there
is one man whose sole job it is to think about such an eventuality.
His name is
Pascal Duvier, Kim’s massive granite-faced personal bodyguard and head of her
and her husband Kanye West’s security team.
We’ve all
become way too familiar with Mr Duvier in recent months.
Kim often
mentions him in tweets or Instagram posts, and he himself is a social media
junkie, a bizarre practice for a man in a profession where secrecy and keeping
a low profile is paramount.
A glance
through Duvier’s own Instagram account reveals endless self-glorifying images
of him with his famous clients, and pompous self-inflating homilies about the
art of being a bodyguard.
This is a man
who clearly believes he is almost as big a star as the people he is paid to
protect and likes nothing more than bragging about it.
Yet when it
comes to actually doing his job, he failed dismally.
This was not
the first security threat against Kim while they have been in Paris, where she
has been attending Fashion Week.
Four days ago,
a notorious Ukrainian prankster tried to grab her as she walked out of a car in
the centre of the city.
Duvier, who is
6ft 4in and 264 pounds, moved quickly to stop him, though not quick enough to
prevent the assailant reaching his target.
If the idiot
prankster had been armed, it would have been a far worse outcome.
Yet Kim seemed
thrilled. ‘My security Pascal Duvier is a G!’ she told her 48 million Twitter
followers.
‘You don’t
become a bodyguard overnight,’ Duvier declared on Twitter yesterday just hours
before the attack: ‘It’s a job with dedication, responsibility and passion. Do
your job for your own satisfaction, not for applause, attention or fortune.’
The sheer
irony of him saying all this on social media, the very epicentre of
attention-seeking, is extraordinary.
Particularly
as he then decided to go a nightclub with Kim’s mother Kris and sister Kendall
rather than stay with his principle charge.
If Duvier needs
any help in working out the potential repercussions of what happened last
night, I suggest he talks to a man named Clint Hill.
He was the US
secret service agent who sprinted desperately to jump onto the back of
President Kennedy’s limo after he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas.
I interviewed
Hill, a modest and unassuming man now in his 80s, and asked how often he thinks
about what happened.
His eyes
filled with tears. ‘Every single day of my life. I just wish I could have got
there sooner to stop the final bullet.’
The regret and
guilt were as painfully etched on Hill’s face as they must have been back in
1963.
Kim Kardashian
is not President of the United States.
Nor, and I
think I can say this with some certainty despite the emergence of reality TV
stars as presidential candidates, is she ever likely to be.
But she is
ridiculously famous for someone who by her own admission has no talent, and has
tens of millions of fans around the world.
When you reach
the level of her kind of celebrity, personal security is not something to be
taken lightly.
There are very
real threats all the time from all manner of stalkers, pranksters, idiots and
criminals.
She is also,
as I said earlier, a perfect target for kidnappers or terrorists.
For her
personal bodyguard, who is presumably on a large six-figure salary, to have
allowed this to happen on his watch is unforgivably negligent.
Only hours
before this robbery, Kim tweeted a photo of her with Duvier behind her, with
the caption: This guy is always in my shot!’
It turns out
that he is, except when it really matters.
To leave your
globally famous female boss alone in an apartment laden with millions of
dollars worth of jewels when she’s already just been attacked in the city, is a
stunning dereliction of duty.
Duvier is the
CEO and chairman of a company called ProtectSecurity and has been a security
consultant to a number of other stars including singer Ciara and the Black Eyed
Peas.
‘The most
essential muscle a bodyguard should trust is his brain,’ Duvier said in a
recent interview (why is he even DOING interviews?). ‘You study everything,
your surroundings. I always pay attention to detail.’
Really?
Seems to me
Duvier is singularly lacking in the brain cell department and misses the
world’s most obvious details.
I never did
find out what Kim’s effusive ‘G’ tribute stands for I would hazard a guess at
‘Ginormous Goon’.
My advice to
Ms Kardashian is to fire Duvier today and hire someone who prioritises
protecting her life before constantly striving to enhance his own brand.
My second
piece of advice to Kim is do this before Kanye gets hold of him.
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