‘Incoming ... incoming ... incoming’: if Kemp’s nerve never failed him,his words sometimes did. Plus: a very cold case reopened in The Investigator: A British Crime StoryRoss Kemp – actor, investigative journalist, and novelist,Grant – is off to war again. He was once embedded in Afghanistan, for which he underwent military training (his only prior military training was acting in military training films). In Ross Kemp: The Fight Against Isis (Sky1), and he travelled to parts of Iraq and Syria only recently taken back from Isis by Kurdish forces.
Kemp’s mission,as far I could order, was to get himself shot, or nearly shot. “The Moment Ross Kemp nearly Got Killed tabloid stories form a sizable part of the pre-publicity for his documentaries. There is no question that he has a knack for being proximate to live fire. In this instance he had to cross the length of Rojava – the Syrian territory reclaimed from Isis by the Kurds – to get to the frontline. Finally,after jogging across open ground to reach an even more forward position, Kemp managed to get pinned down by sniper fire.
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Source: theguardian.com