What Bach star and YouTube beauty queen are up to in mandatory quarantine
Social media influencers are documenting their lives while in quarantine in Brisbane hotels, with day 10 proving to be a turning point for YouTube superstar Shani Grimmond who described it as “hard mentally” while tearing up over missing her family.
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Social media influencers are returning home to Brisbane and documenting their day-to-day life while stuck in mandatory quarantine.
Shani Grimmond, who boasts 1.4 million followers on Instagram, created a YouTube video documenting day 10 of her mandatory quarantine, where she said it’s beginning to become difficult.
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Grimmond, who owns her own swimwear line called Sylk Swim, was visibly emotional in her video, saying the isolation was becoming “hard mentally”.
“The first week was totally fine, I was so busy with work,” Grimmond said in her latest video blog.
“Obviously being in here for this long isn’t really normal for any human being to be taken away from the real world. But obviously being in Melbourne I knew I would have to go through this process, so not complaining at all. It is just getting a little bit hard mentally.”
Grimmond travelled back home to Brisbane to see her family, and teared up when speaking about them.
“I think it’s just getting really hard in here, and I just want to go out and see my family,” she said.
“I haven’t actually been upset about it, I’ve been handling it really well. This whole experience just makes me so grateful for everything on the outside.”
Grimmond said she has moments where she feels like she needs to “get out”.
“I feel like everyone’s feeling the same in quarantine, you’ll have your good days, you’ll have your bad days,” she said.
The YouTube personality is paying $2,800 to mandatory quarantine at the hotel, which includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
She has been spending her time meditating and exercising, but is looking forward to having a better diet.
“I’m so over the food here, at the start in the first video I was like obviously super thankful for getting fed. I don’t know how to say this without people saying ‘you’re complaining’, (but) I felt really sick from the food yesterday.
“Today I decided to take matters into my own hands, because I know I’m going to feel amazing. It’s just kinda hard to make lunch here because we don’t have a microwave, we have a tiny little fridge which is amazing and we have a kettle, but we don’t have a microwave so I can’t have anything warm.”
Bachelor alumni Abbie Chatfield began her first day of mandatory quarantine in Brisbane after arriving from Sydney.
Chatfield, who was on Matt Agnew’s season of The Bachelor, and also on the newest season of Bachelor in Paradise is staying in a two-bed, single room in Brisbane, and said she has a great view to “people watch”.
“It’s day one of quarantine, I am very happy to be back in Brisbane,” she told her 183k followers.
Chatfield looked unimpressed by her first breakfast, describing it as “not awful”, and she has so far been passing time learning TikTok dances.
“Time isn’t real, it’s day one and I just slept from 10 till 1 in the middle of the day,” she said.