Ash Pollard has revealed a nightmare ordeal she suffered during a trip to China.
The My Kitchen Rules star, 39, revealed earlier this week that she was jetting off on an impromptu trip to attend the Canton Fair in Guangzhou – the country’s largest trade fair.
Her trip got off to a rocky start, with Ash having to endure a white-knuckle taxi ride to her accommodation.
She shared a series of images and clips on her Instagram story on Friday, detailing the horrific journey.
One video, shot from the back seat of the taxi, shows her driver’s eyes in the rear-view mirror.
She captioned the clip: ‘Ummmmm so my driver keeps nodding off behind the wheel. I’m coughing loudly to wake him up. Not working.’
Ash Pollard has revealed a nightmare ordeal she suffered during a trip to China
Ash followed the clip with a selfie that showed her looking terrified, with her hand covering her mouth.
‘It’s now dark and he’s nodded off so hard his head hit the steering wheel. I’m not making this up. I’m 30 mins from accom. What do I do?’ she wrote.
Another video showed the cab travelling on a busy highway at dusk, with Ash revealing her driver was continuing to drift off.
‘Drives for a bit then brakes and falls asleep. He’s done this before obvs cos he’s been going like this for 45 mins. Seasoned pro,’ she wrote over the clip.
‘He keeps sniffing s*** from a bottle every now and then, too. Right. I need to stay alert guy.’
Luckily, Ash made it to her accommodation in one piece, albeit a little shaken.
‘Oh my God guys, f*** me dead. I actually could cry. The tears are just here,’ she said with a relieved sigh as she made her way to her room.
‘Being in a foreign country all by yourself is scary, and then when you feel like you’re going to f***ing die it’s even scarier.’
Her trip got off to a rocky start, with Ash having to endure a white-knuckle taxi ride to her accommodation She shared a series of images and clips to her Instagram story on Friday, detailing the horrific journey
She captioned one clip: ‘Ummmmm so my driver keeps nodding off behind the wheel. I’m coughing loudly to wake him up. Not working’
Ash followed the clip with a selfie that showed her looking terrified with her hand covering her mouth. ‘It’s now dark and he’s nodded off so hard his head hit the steering wheel. I’m not making this up. I’m 30 mins from accom. What do I do?’ she wrote
The ordeal came with a happy ending, though, with Ash rounding out the video with some good news.
‘I’m at the Langham and they’ve upgraded me to a suite because I looked so scared when I walked in,’ she said.
‘I told them that the guy fell asleep and I gave them the video and they were shocked. They refunded what I paid for the driver, and they’ve upgraded me.’
It comes after Ash recently weighed in on Nagi Maehashi’s latest controversy.
The RecipeTin Eats founder lashed out at Australian PR companies this week, complaining that she was receiving unsolicited offers to run promotional posts in exchange for free goods.
Ash, herself a keen cook and a former star of My Kitchen Rules, told the Daily Telegraph earlier this month that Nagi should be grateful for the opportunity.
‘I wouldn’t be burning bridges, don’t forget where you’ve come from,’ Pollard said.
Ash, who boasts 132,000 Instagram followers, added that she doesn’t mind a bit of social media work.
Another video showed the cab travelling on a busy highway at dusk, with Ash revealing her driver was continuing to drift off
Luckily, Ash made it to her accommodation in one piece, albeit a little shaken. Oh my God guys, f*** me dead. I actually could cry. The tears are just here’ she said with a relieved sigh, as she made her way to her room
‘You never know when you might need to call upon these people again. And what’s so wrong with being an influencer?’ she said.
Nagi came out swinging against Australian PR agencies who were offering her a pittance in exchange for making sponsored social media posts.
However, the following day, Nagi clarified that she was upset by the fact that her contact details were being shared without her permission – not over the lack of funds she was offered.
‘It’s not about money, it’s about breach of privacy,’ she explained in an Instagram Stories post.
‘My personal details have somehow landed on dozens, if not hundreds, of PR databases, even though I don’t do sponsored posts. Not cool.’
