TV hardman Billy Billingham talks about guarding A-listers and living with Brangelina

express.co.uk:

Ever alert to danger, in one swift manoeuvre Billy grabbed the actor by the neck and wrenched him away before swivelling to put the assailant in a headlock.

All three of them tumbled backwards into the hotel doorway. It was only when they scrambled to their feet – with Billy still holding Tom and the “assailant” by the neck – that he realised his mistake. “Hey, Billy meet Penelope,’” the star said.The woman with Billy’s iron grip around her head was Penelope Cruz, the Mission Impossible actor’s new girlfriend.“I was protecting Tom and I didn’t know about Penelope, I had no idea who she was,” Billy recalls sheepishly.“My job was to take Tom into the hotel while making sure nobody got too close, but as we were stepping into the doorway, out.