Tiffiny Hall took precautionary action after she was followed on honeymoon in Paris

Former Biggest Loser trainer and ex-Gladiator Tiffiny Hall has spoken about a scary experience where she was followed through the streets of Paris and asked by a stranger: “How do you feel about dying today?”

“How do you feel about dying today?”

That was the terrifying question a man who followed ex-Gladiator and taekwondo black belt Tiffiny Hall as she walked alone through the streets of Paris.

Yesterday Hall revealed to Confidential when she was followed in Paris while on her honeymoon.

The mum of one went on the Hughesy and Kate show this afternoon along with her radio presenter husband Ed Kavalee and went into even further detail, quoting the threat the man made.

Tiffiny Hall has spoken about being followed in Paris. Picture: James Gourley

She has made it her mission to teach women simple self defence. Picture: James Gourley

“I decided if he came close or touched me that’s when I would react and he did come close,” she said.

“He said ‘How do you feel about dying today?’

“That actually scared me so much I was paralysed with fear initially and that is something that even someone who is trained in self defence, when put in that position it still freezes you.

“I just ran and he didn’t pursue me. I was very, very lucky.”

Kavalee corroborated the story saying Hall called him on the way back and recounted what the man said when she eventually returned.

Dave ‘Hughesy’ Hughes was taken aback by the tale, gobsmacked that Kavalee let Hall go out alone and saying he didn’t realise how “full on” it was.

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“I was listening to a podcast so I immediately took my headphones out so I could hear and I was aware,” she told Confidential.

“I dialled my husband on the phone and crossed the road.

“I headed for light and didn’t go near any abandoned areas.

“Thankfully I was fine, he lost interest, but it was the scariest time where I felt incredibly unsafe.”

Hall called her husband Ed Kavalee as she walked back to her home in Paris. Picture: Steve Koukoulas Photograhy

Hall has made it her personal mission to teach women simple self defence techniques if they are ever in a dangerous situation.

It comes as Australian Bureau of Statistics figures reveal one in three women experienced physical violence from the age of 18, with one in 11 of those instances at the hands of a stranger.

Hall has created her online TIFFXO programs that combine fitness and self defence if a woman finds herself in that situation.

But before she passes her expertise on to her “Ninjas”, first she has to try them out and often Hall’s husband, comedian Ed Kavalee, finds himself as an unwitting test dummy.

Hall as Gladiator Angel from TV series 'Gladiators'.

She was also a trainer on The Biggest Loser.

“I’m 5ft 4” and Ed is 6ft 5” so he towers over me,” she said.

“Whenever I learn a new move I say ‘hey come here please’ and he starts running.

“He’s the only member of the family without a black belt, which is totally unacceptable.

“He always says ‘next year’ but it’s been 13 years now and he’s never gone to a class.”

If anything, Kavalee could do with a few self defence classes of his own considering Hall’s family of black belts have had him on the back foot for more than a decade.

“Our first date, over a decade ago, he picked me up from my family home and my dad, who is an eight Dan black belt, answered the door in his full taekwondo gear and black belt,” Hall recalled with a laugh.

“Ed was like ‘hello sir nice to meet you’ and my dad jokingly put him in a wrist lock.

“That was always my dad’s trick growing up.”

Originally published as Tiffiny Hall took precautionary action after she was followed on honeymoon in Paris