{"id":624122,"date":"2026-04-22T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:55:09","slug":"australian-influencer-apologises-for-leaving-baby-in-a-balinese-hotel-room-to-get-massage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624122\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian influencer apologises for leaving baby in a Balinese hotel room to get massage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The mother of two has a discount code for the camera linked in her online bio that offers 10% off the Tweetycam, a $300 baby monitor marketed as being designed because the makers \u201cknow how important your baby\u2019s safety and wellbeing are to you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The product description says the monitor \u201clets you check in from anywhere in the house, whether it\u2019s nap time, play time, or bedtime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Skye\u2019s action was lambasted by online critics after the post was shared to TeaTime, a Facebook group with 250,000 members who find community by \u201cdishing out the tea in your personal lives or banging on about the latest celebrity news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Taleigha Skye has made her Instagram profile private after her actions while on holiday drew criticism. Photo \/ Instagram \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Taleigha Skye has made her Instagram profile private after her actions while on holiday drew criticism. Photo \/ Instagram <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Skye responded to the fallout in a statement posted on her Instagram Stories, writing she\u2019d made \u201ca poor decision and I take full responsibility for it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAlthough I was only metres away from the locked resort room and had constant monitoring, I recognise that this did not make the situation safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Additionally, Skye shared that \u201cwe do have a lovely nanny here in Bali who was unavailable that day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is not justification, just context,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Skye said she now understood the seriousness of her actions, <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI can confidently say this is the first and last time it will ever happen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Online commenters were quick to draw comparisons with the case of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from her parents\u2019 holiday rental in Portugal in 2007 while they went for dinner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn this day and age, after Madeleine McCann, why would any parent do this? I\u2019m shook,\u201d one TeaTime member commented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">In 2024, influencers Abby and Matt Howard faced similar criticism when they posted online about watching their young children through a baby monitor while enjoying a meal on a cruise ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Skye has since made her Instagram account private. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mother of two has a discount code for the camera linked in her online bio that offers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9490,302305,262428,64,63,81,18994,302304,447,134,36393,580,10870,17536,4717,74017,78969,39007,36439,319,302306,8279,5399],"class_list":{"0":"post-624122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-apologised","10":"tag-apologises","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australian","14":"tag-baby","15":"tag-balinese","16":"tag-celebrities","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-foot","19":"tag-for","20":"tag-get","21":"tag-hotel","22":"tag-in","23":"tag-influencer","24":"tag-leaving","25":"tag-massage","26":"tag-room","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-unattended","29":"tag-went","30":"tag-while"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}