I don't know who this guys customers are but I thought this was funny.

From the Boston Herald on Sunday:

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A young couple dogged by shouting paparazzi scurries down Newbury Street, ducking in and out of stores. As the photographers push to get closer, passers-by pull out their cell phones to snap photos of the stars before asking the lensmen who the celebrity duo is.

“I could live like this every day,” said the hunted proto-celeb Justine McCarthy, a hair stylist from Newburyport. “It was an absolute blast.”

Your Paparazzi For Hire, a new business venture by wedding photographer and hair stylist Lance McBrayer, launched Tuesday, allowing everyday Bostonians to experience the celebrity lifestyle.
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“We’re really marketing more of the experience than the product,” McBrayer said. “The flashing bulbs and the feeling of everyone’s attention on you. It’s to give people the experience that they normally wouldn’t have.”

Faux paparazzi have become popular across the country, with companies popping up in major cities in the United States and Europe. Your Paparazzi for Hire is the only “reality marketing” company in Boston, McBrayer said.

“It’s just about the experience that everyday people can have to make them feel like a star,” he said.

For a mere $499, one can be hunted down by a pack of four Your Paparazzi for Hire photographers who will be riveted on you for a full 30 minutes. Up the ante to $2,479 - the premium “Star” package - and the wannabe celeb, accompanied by a body guard, will be able to step out of a limo to be hounded for two hours by six paparazzi whose questions will be fielded by the “star’s” personal publicist.

Add-ons include everything from professional hair and make-up sessions to a red carpet stroll, and every client receives the phony tabloid “Star Watch” with their close-up plastered on Page 1.

McCarthy, 23, who works with McBrayer at G2O Spa and Salon, and her friend Tim Robishaw, 22, took three photogs, two umbrella-toting bodyguards and their publicist on a 30-minute Newbury Street shopping spree. The paparazzi asked hard-hitting questions, like whether the two were an item (they’re not) and about McCarthy’s upcoming Mexico vacation.

The duo and their entourage cracked up when asked if McCarthy was sporting a burgeoning baby bump (“It’s not true,” the divorcee insisted).

McBrayer’s endeavor has seen about a dozen clients since he started dabbling in the paparazzi business two months ago. He has followed pseudo-celebs, some of whom are friends he has used as guinea pigs, on Newbury Street excursions and at parties in homes and function halls. He shot a guys’-night-out at Saint nightclub where even the bouncers seemed star- struck, he said.

“People were crowding around,” McCarthy said of her star-like experience. “Everyone on Newbury Street kind of stopped and paid attention. We’re always going out and wishing things like this would happen to us.”

Brilliant I've always wanted to do something like that. Not pay for it, but wear huge sunglasses and sneak around like I have something to hide or a paparazzo to hide from. LOL

I wanna be one of the paparazzi dudes. Looks like fun.

-Christobal