A former estate agent from Wales has become a video blogging star in the US after blagging his way into the 69th Emmy Awards show held last Sunday in downtown Los Angeles.
Rhos-on-Sea born Simon Wilson, 26, who worked for both Milton Keynes agency Creative Estate Agents in Wolverton and Orchards in central London before setting up his own estate agency called Wilson Langley in Kettering, Northants, this year turned to ‘vlogging’ and appearing in TV reality shows.
His previous brushes with fame have included meeting Richard Branson at an entrepreneur event in Boston, bumping in to Wolf of Wall Street actor Jonah Hill in Los Angeles and blagging a $100,000 ringside seat for last month’s Mayweather vs McGregor boxing fight in Las Vegas.
The video of his antics getting into the fight event have attracted 578,000 views on YouTube, plus he also recently appeared in ITV’s follow-up dating show to Love Island, called Dressed to Impress.
Emmy’s Awards
But his big moment has now come after he videoed himself sneaking into the Emmy’s, which including footage of himself blagging free drinks at getting into the ceremony’s after-show party within the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.
Dressed in a cheap evening suit and dickie bow he bought from a charity shop and pretending to be a journalist, Simon managed to blag pictures of himself both holding actor Donald Glover’s Emmy Award, rubbing shoulders with Nicole Kidman and Charlie Brooker and getting snapped with English actress and Mission Impossible star Thandie Newton.
Simon now plans to remain in the US and told a North Wales newspaper that he is now talking to several US media outlets and has several more “plans up his sleeve”.
“Off the back of these videos, I’m working on something really exciting with a couple of companies in Beverly Hills,” he said. “People’s reactions have been crazy,” he added. “I haven’t been back to the UK yet but the reaction has been great.”
Watch Simon’s latest video here:
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