A popular influencer\u2019s shocking holiday video has exposed an \u201cuncomfortable\u201d truth about being a woman in 2026. <\/p>\n
Evelyn Ellis, who rose to fame after appearing on MAFS in 2023, is currently in Monaco, an independent microstate situated on the French Riviera, where she\u2019s been busy working as a content creator. <\/p>\n
But while filming in her villa, the 30-year-old realised she wasn\u2019t the only person who had hit the record button, a fact that left her feeling \u201cunsafe\u201d and \u201cuncomfortable\u201d. <\/p>\n
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In the footage<\/a>, Ellis could be seen wearing a sequined bikini top as she lounged by a pool, with the unknown man \u2013 dressed only in a pair of navy shorts \u2013 clearly visible behind her. <\/p>\n At one point he calls out to her from the street to get her attention, but for the majority of the time, he stands there filming her on his mobile phone from.<\/p>\n Ellis, who lives in Sydney with her partner Duncan James, eventually turns around, shouting out: \u201cAre you OK?\u201d <\/p>\n After capturing the incredibly creepy encounter, the former reality star shared the footage to social media.<\/p>\n \u201cThis man stood outside filming me for 45 minutes while I was in the privacy of my own villa,\u201d she wrote on the alarming clip. <\/p>\n \u201cI hate how unsafe and uncomfortable some men make women feel.\u201d <\/p>\n Sadly, Ellis isn\u2019t wrong. Data shows that an alarming majority of women report experiencing discomfort, harassment, or feeling unsafe around men. <\/p>\n A staggering 78 per cent of Australian women have experienced sexual harassment in public spaces, and often it occurs without any intervention, which only \u201cdeepens the trauma\u201d, one concerning report <\/a>found.<\/p>\n The most common forms of harassment endured include inappropriate and unwanted sexual looks or gestures, such as staring or leering, that leave victims feeling uncomfortable.<\/p>\n Other examples include sexually suggestive or intrusive comments, whistling, unwanted touching and even somebody exposing themselves in a sexual manner.<\/p>\n In more recent times, this has expanded to include filming women without their consent<\/a>, such as the experience Ellis documented. <\/p>\n However, other types of street harassment include \u201caccidentally\u201d brushing against someone, invading a person\u2019s space, pressing or rubbing against the person\u2019s body, the 2022 Stand Up report added.<\/p>\n \u201cStreet harassment is not always clear to identify. Its often very subtle and insidious. But whenever it\u2019s unwanted verbal, non-verbal, physical conduct of a sexual nature, it\u2019s harassment,\u201d it determined.<\/p>\n In Australia, it is against the law for a person to sexually harass anyone else in many areas of public life.<\/p>\n While it is not a crime exclusively committed by men, the 2021-22 Personal Safety Survey <\/a>(PSS) released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) found women were more likely to experience sexual harassment by a male than a female.<\/p>\n Whereas men were about as likely to experience sexual harassment by a male as by a female.<\/p>\n But alarmingly, harassment is just one of the reasons many women feel unsafe when going about their daily life, which is why Ellis \u2013 and so many other women \u2013 have had enough. <\/p>\n \u201cThis is so scary WTF,\u201d wrote one in the comments section of her TikTok<\/a> video. <\/p>\n \u201cVile behaviour,\u201d noted another. <\/p>\n As one declared it \u201cweird\u201d, while someone else stressed, \u201cthat\u2019s so cooked\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cEw. I hate men,\u201d raged one woman. <\/p>\n \u201cGirl this is NOT OK,\u201d shared someone else. <\/p>\n While another asked: \u201cWTF, I hope you are OK. So sorry this happened to you.\u201d <\/p>\n