Instagram model couple boast about giving $200 to the ‘lucky taxi driver’ who dropped them off at Bali airport – just a week after one of them ‘was sick with coronavirus’
- Mikaela Testa, 19, and Atis Paul finally flew home from Bali on Friday afternoon
- Mr Paul posted a photo of AU$200 in Indonesian money to give to taxi driver
- He was condemned for the stunt and calling the taxi driver ‘lucky’ to get his cash
- Ms Testa earlier posted photos of Mr Paul looking unwell, implying he had virus
- Porn model last year made headlines for tearful rant about Instagram likes ban
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An Instagram couple has bragged about tipping their Bali taxi driver $200 to drive them to the airport as they fled home to the Gold Coast.
Mikaela Testa, 19, who was mocked online last year for her tearful video about Instagram’s ‘likes ban’, and her boyfriend Atis Paul finally flew home on Friday.
The couple were on the holiday island for several weeks and now will undergo the mandatory two weeks of quarantine at home in Queensland.
Mikaela Testa, 19, and her boyfriend Atis Paul finally flew home on Friday after weeks on the Indonesian holiday island
Mr Paul on Friday posted a photo of piles of Indonesia cash, adding up to about AU$200, that he said the couple were planning to give to their driver to the airport
Mr Paul on Friday posted a photo of piles of Indonesia cash, adding up to about AU$200, that he said the couple were planning to give to their driver.
‘My girlfriend and I are about to give this all to whichever lucky taxi driver drops us off at the airport today,’ he wrote.
‘Bali is really going to struggle for a while so that’s gonna be one less family struggling.’
The couple were roundly criticised online, both for attention-seeking during the coronavirus pandemic and for calling the driver ‘lucky’.
Mr Paul appeared to have just a week earlier been sick with coronavirus himself, according to his girlfriend.
Mr Paul appeared to have just a week earlier been sick with coronavirus himself, according to photos posted by his girlfriend
The couple were on the holiday island for several weeks and now have two weeks of quarantine to look forward to at home in Queensland
Ms Testa shared a meme on March 12 reading ‘my man has the coronavirus, don’t touch him’.
This was assumed to be a joke until she posted photos of Mr Paul in bed looking unwell and indicated that he did indeed have the virus.
The Instagram boyfriend appears to have recovered from his illness to be well enough to return to Australia.
Ms Testa went viral last year with her tearful rant about Instagram making the number of likes a photo has secret to anyone but the poster.
‘If you think this is OK you can f*** off, it’s actually a sad day for those who have Instagram as a job,’ she said at the time.
The Instagram boyfriend appears to have recovered from his illness to be well enough to return to Australia
The couple shared many photos of their travels around Bali, and Europe before that
‘Regardless of what you may think Instagram is a REAL job and those in the industry have worked hard to get where they’re at. It’s people that aren’t even in the industry that think it’s a f***ing joke. It’s not, it’s real damage out here.’
Ms Testa later boasted she earned $12,895 a month from posting pornographic videos on onlyfans.com and had 50,000 subscribers.
Indonesia has had 450 cases of coronavirus and 38 deaths and Bali has been transformed from a thriving holiday destination into a ghost town as people forego international travel due to restrictions on re-entry to their own countries.