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The talk of last night’s Grammys happened to be all about Miley Cyrus’ bodyguard – and it was all down to his umbrella.
Confused? Let’s shed some light into what happened.
It was a spectacular evening for the former Hannah Montana star, who picked up a Grammy Award for her hit track 'Flowers' in the Record of the Year category.
But before this incredible moment, fans couldn't help but clock something rather worrying.
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As the ‘Used To Be Young’ singer made her way down the red carpet wearing a see-through gold mesh dress, onlookers - and people of the internet - couldn’t help but focus on the bodyguard to her right.
Did you catch it? Notice anything at all?
While it’s not clear from the (first few) glances, it’s his umbrella which has gained attention, as it has a similar resemblance to ‘an assault umbrella’ that you see in the Kingsman films.
The speculation online is that it is in fact a concealed firearm, which is hidden within the umbrella.
While some agree that this would be beneficial for a security guard to have, others believed the idea of it being a weapon was pretty unlikely.
While plenty have commented on the suspicious looking umbrella, bona fide security specialist Will Geddes told LADbible that people thinking there must be more to it than keeping the rain away might be onto something.
He did confirm that some bodyguards do actually used umbrellas as a form of concealed protection.
He explained: "So if they are a licenced protection officer, which I would imagine Miley will have, then there's every good chance that he will be carrying a weapon anyway”
"But having said that, in terms of the umbrella, the umbrella is a really practical tool, you will see it being used by quite a few celebrities. It's used for two reasons.
"There are very special tactical umbrellas that you can actually buy. If you go onto Google, you'll actually see some, and you put in tactical umbrella.
"These umbrellas are very, very rigid. They're not like your regular umbrellas, which just simply sort of fold if you hit someone with them, they're reinforced steel."
Geddes revealed that he'd used the tactical umbrella himself a few times and found it to be 'highly effective'.
"There's every good chance that he was using that umbrella to basically make it less easy for somebody if they wanted to chuck something," the experienced security specialist explained.
"Miley has a lot of threats against continually, you know, mad crazies fans and stalkers, so there's every good chance that she would have a) have good security, but b) that they might use this kind of tool.
"The only thing that slightly foxed me was that he was rigid, and he was just staring straight ahead. He wasn't really looking at anything around.
"So there's a good chance that they will be on the first secure perimeter that they've got through, which is why he then felt comfortable enough that he didn't have to have his eyes darting around the places any normal closed potential would in an unsecured area."
While it makes sense for it to be a concealed weapon in order to protect Miley, but the idea seems to outlandish. I guess we’ll never know..
