Exclusive | Post reporter Georgia Worrell hires personal security for a girls night out in NYC but ends up at NYPD station because of paparazzi

Fame is not for the faint of heart. I found that out this week when I got a taste of the celebrity life thanks to the armed bodyguards who followed me and a pal around wherever we went — and protected us from suspected “paparazzi” in a wild, Hollywood-style chase through Gotham.On Wednesday night, my friend Savannah Larson and I decided to go out for a drink or two — and give a test drive to the on-demand private security app called Protector that I wrote about last week.Clad in “tactical casual” attire of jeans and slim-fitting black windbreakers, the trio of ex-NYPD officers –our bodyguards Chris, Taylor and George — showed up at 9 p.m.to our meeting spot in Times Square to embark on a carefree girl’s night out.

As Savannah and I locked arms and started to strut through Times Square, Taylor walked in front of us; George, behind us, and Chris, ready to move between our left and right sides. They made navigating crowded city streets a breeze — ‘gently’ pushing aside anyone in our path.“Yo…who’s that?” we overheard one gawker wonder as Taylor, 33, lightly nudged him outside the Times Square subway stop. We sent the drivers of the two black SUVs the Protectors brought to chauffeur us around to wait at the Bushwick bar we were heading to, opting to take the subway alongside our bodyguards instead.The NYC subway system has never felt safer.

Chris, Taylor and George surrounded Savannah and I on board a southbound “N” train to Union Square station, then a Brooklyn-bound L to Jefferson Street. “I’ve got eyes on this one,” George, 43, said when the subway car doors opened briefly to reveal a disheveled woman flailing on the ground of one subway platform. Once in Bushwick, we walked to the bar Carousel on Wyckoff Avenue, where Savannah and I leisurely sipped wine while the our guards — all armed with semi-automatic pistols — waited outside on the sidewalk.When we were ready to go, the trio escorted us into one of the t...