Chinewrde Security Services, 2018

Kenilworth Carnival, 2018

Kenilworth Carnival Day is always a very special day; entertaining and filled with wonder and awe.

The Chinewrde Security Services were proud and honoured to have been employed to protect a Very Important VIP. They were responsible for the safety of a celebrity with such calibre they were in a Jaguar throughout the entire procession. They got the call weeks before the day, and were tasked with the extremely important and secret job of ensuring that Celebrity C was safe at all times.

I caught up with the Chinewrde Security Services briefly to find out more, this is what they told me:

What we knew:

Celebrity C has always driven through the streets of Kenilworth around midday on the last Saturday of June, it had always been the perfect day for her to drive through her child hood town that day every year as it’s usually quiet. Unfortunately, someone has moved the annual Carnival event forward by a week and it was looking to clash with Celebrity C’s annual trip.

Unperturbed, celebrity C decided to enlist the best security team she could pay for.

She had to make sure that she was covered on all angles, I mean what if somebody recognised her – the whole procession would grind to a halt as thousands of people would be bound to surround the car just to see her, just to be breathing the same air as her and to try and get a selfie with her. 

We knew it was a highly important task, and we knew the risks – Kenilworth Carnival Day is always so busy, people are lined along the streets as though they are waiting for something, so we knew that there were potential risks everywhere!

Celebrity C, is such a mysterious celebrity that we were not even given her name only a code name, but we knew that meant that she was a huge Talent!

Unfortunately, Celebrity C has run off with the Jaguar – her driver just kept going after the procession, so we are without a car now – we are still available for other types of security work of course, and as we have always said No job too big, no celebrity too small! If anyone does need our services, we meet every third Wednesday at the big Oak in Abbey Fields.

What a lovely day it was, not a rain drop during the procession… happy faces everywhere. The floats were great – some real work had gone into the props, costumes and themes… so, I guess all we can say is:

…better start thinking about next year, after all, Kenilworth is pretty damn good at this carnival lark!