You just know that Justin Timberlake was loving this. He gets off a plane in Paris and to make sure he makes it through the airport smoothly and without complications gets a guard from the military with gun drawn to get him through ok. Why? Do the French know something we don't? Is Justin's life in danger from Lance Bass who just wants to know when the NSync reunion is going to happen and won't stop leaving Justin alone. Did someone get sick at his restaurant and they want revenge?
Can you imagine in LA and New York if we had the same procedure? Every star would be judged on whether or not they had an armed guard to escort them through the airport. There would be different degrees of fame. Some people would get a guy with a taser and 50 pound gut and some stars would get one guard and as you moved up to the ladder and got to Oprah you would get an entire convoy moving her from her house to the plane and shooting anyone who crosses their path.
Has anyone ever seen this in any airport in the world? I'm sorry but he is just not that big of a star. This is ridiculous and will just give him an even bigger head than he already has. Of course Lance can be persistent, so you never know. Oh, and a note to Justin. It's Paris and almost July. Maybe lose a few layers of clothes.
When I went through the Brussels airport in the late '80s, all the guards were carrying guns like that.
ReplyDeletewhew, let's cross our fingers and hope that this asshat hired an actor dressed in military uniform. no?
ReplyDeleteMooshki, I'll second that. I was in Europe in 1988 and there were armed guards at the airports. In Germany, armed soldiers stormed our train and we were terrified. Oh, and it was this time of year and it was cold most of the time. Even in Paris.
ReplyDeleteMooshki, same with the airport in Rome when I was there in 1996. However, I didn't see anyone personally escorted by an armed guard. That photo is hilarious. JT is oozing self-importance more than usual
ReplyDeleteIt's quite warm across the Channel in London. He's a major douche though and I'm gutted I ever fancied him.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were in Italy and Paris in January, there were armed guards everywhere, with machine guns, just like this. It kind of freaked us out.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, not one of them escorted us or anyone else we saw. Maybe Justin is running from Britney again.
Maybe they just accidentally walked together? I bet G.I. Joe is really protecting the lady in the background wearing jammies.
ReplyDeletei was just in paris in april - saw them all over. i even watched this one guy get shoved in a corner of the airport because the drug dog sniffed him out and started barking. they did everything aside from anal probing. the guy was LIVID - and they found nothing and let him go.
ReplyDeletemaybe justin's suitcase was reeking of 420. teehee.
I thought the same as califblondy, maybe the guard was just walking in the same general direction.
ReplyDeletepr maybe he was just someone that justin hired for some fun later in the night...
ReplyDeleteya all the airport security look like that in Spain too, it's a bit freaky.
ReplyDeleteHe really gets on my nerves.
ReplyDeleteYeah, most airport security in other counties is just like that. There's no rent-a-cops or TSA folks just hired from the underpass in Europe or other locales like we have in the States (Try going some place really scary like Kingston, Jamaica, as I did on my first trip as a way-to-naive 17 year old on a missionary trip -- armed guards with machine guns + third world seeming locale = way too much for me at the time, but I digress...)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, what I'm saying is, if Justin was to get any airport security at all, which, no matter what you feel his level of security, I would assume he should get some, this is the only kind he would have been offered. I think this difference in this case is that normally the photogs do a better job of framing the shot.
As for Paris in July, the average low temp is in the 40s, and it was that cold last weekend, so the layered look is not only appropriate, but exactly what I'd be doing after hours on an (always too cold) airplane, even if I was in first class (not that I'd know)
All that defense being made, though I still think he's better than most, JT still can seem like a tool sometimes.
Can't stand this idiot. What does Lainey call him?? Oh yeah Pip Squeek (might be misspelled) LOL.
ReplyDeleteI was in Paris 3 years ago and saw armed soldiers just like this walking around purposefully at CDG airport. It was quite startling!
ReplyDeleteHowever, on my way back, I didn't see anything like that in the Madrid Airport.
Oh, and yeah, Justin is waayy overrated but will never know that because his head is so far up his arse.
Oh for fucks sake, the dude could be walking beside him and everyone is saying he is getting an escort. If there are guards crawling all over the airports, eventually they will have to walk next to someone won't they? If it is an escort, he's not being protected from Brit-it's that she-beast Biel. Word is that they are done. Dude is prolly running from her clingy shelf ass.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've seen these guys in Eurpoean airports (and train stations) and I think he's just walkin' beside Justin. Justin ALWAYS has that self-important face on.
ReplyDeleteMy intern met Lance Bass on the subway today. He's lovely, I tell you!
ReplyDeleteI saw it in the Uganda and Kenya airports, although I kind of just chalked it up to the instability of the area(s). Regardless, it was unsettling and shocking!
ReplyDeleteWho is Justin Timberlake?
ReplyDeletethe last few days it was about 15°C (~60°F) in paris, so some layers are appropriate.
ReplyDeleteCDG is an airport designed for the 1960s, badly retrofitted to the security requirements of 2009. It is amazingly simple to get helplessly lost there - I do it on a regular basis. Maybe the security guard was just helping Justin find his way to a men's room.
ReplyDeleteI did see armed men in Rome last year, however not in Sorrento nor Florence. I can't imagine that here in the USA. I just hope the armed man is just walking near him. Wonder what the lady in the back is thinking?
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