Aug 22, 2023

PerthNow Have you ever wanted to take out your frustration on influencers posing for photos? Well, one ‘Karen’ has! In a video posted to TikTok, ex-Love Island Australia star Tayla Mellington is given a mouthful by a woman passing by as she and two friends strike a pose on a quiet Queensland street. The group was confronted while taking photos in front of a luxury apartment building — called Mali — by the woman who was pushing a pram, and who gave the trio both barrels. “We were minding our own business, taking photos, and this chick comes up and starts abusing us,” Mellington said. “She’s like, ‘You’re devaluing the property, we’re going to call the police, and we just didn’t say anything. “And she said, ‘You really don’t care, do you?’ and I replied, ‘No, not really’.” “You know when someone is going at you, you just ignore it,” her friend Ruby Ennor — also on season three of Love Island Australia — added. “We’re not channelling that energy. But she kept going.” “She was like, ‘Would you stand in front of someone else’s house and take photos?’ and I’m like yeah, we do that. “She said we were invading their privacy. I’m not going into their home, and it’s out the front part where we take photos. “We’d never go into someone’s property.” But the ‘Karen’ didn’t stop there. She went as far as to attack the girls’ physical qualities. “Anyway, she keeps going and says, ‘Why don’t you get a real job? You don’t make money this way’,” Mellington said. “Then she goes, ‘You’re not that attractive. If you were, you’d get a real job or paid to do modelling’. And I was like, excuse me? “She had a baby with her, just abusing us. She walked off and put the finger up at us.” A woman from inside the building appears after the commotion ends and tells the girls that they shouldn’t be taking photos either. Camera Icon Mellington and her friends were accosted while they were taking photos in front of a residential building by a woman pushing a pram. Credit: rubyennor “And a lady comes out of the building and goes ‘What did you say?’ and I explained that this woman called us not pretty and not attractive,” Mellington said. “And she said that she shouldn’t have said that, but that she was sick of this type of thing (people taking photos in front of the building).” Share to Facebook