A writing stripper acclaimed so much fame on the worldwide app TikTok that a fan flew from America to the UK just to see her dance. Lola Dalvia, also a former French fashion model with 68,000 followers on TikTok and millions of views, explains why this stranger’s globetrotting didn’t impress her.
Although the infatuated man went to great lengths — and surely high expense — to see the influencer in person, Dalvia tells the Daily Star: “Recently I had a guy who literally travelled from the states to meet me. He then followed me to Helsinki. That was creepy because he just travelled to look at me, not even get a dance. I thought it was disrespectful, you can’t just follow me around and look at me half naked on stage and then not even pay me.”
The crazed fan would have known about Dalvia from her TikTok page, which became popular when she started to use the platform to educate on the adult industry. This in mind, the man who flew across the world to meet her should have known about the simple courtesy of tipping strippers for their time.
“He travelled to London first and he told me he just wanted to meet me,” Dalvia reports. “You feel flattered at first but it was a bit creepy and intense. I said ‘what do you want to do, do you want a private dance’ and he said he just wanted to look at me. I was like ‘you travelled so many miles for a five minute chat’ and it was a bit disrespectful so ciao.”
Dalvia says that it was all so disconcerting that she has become more private about sharing where she works on the Internet since the encounter. And although this stranger was likely the first to cross oceans to meet her, he is far from Dalvia’s only dedicated fan.
Says Dalvia: “Some will be in the city where I dance and they will say, ‘oh I just came to the club to see you,’ which is mostly nice. Nobody has been rude, but it feels a bit uncomfortable because they call themselves ‘fans’. I don’t understand why they call themselves fans because I am not like Kim Kardashian or a rock star, to me I am a basic person. But I have people who don’t come in for me but they recognise me and say, ‘you are the girl from TikTok and I follow you and think you are amazing,’ so that is quite nice and cool.”
Dalvia, who is now 31, moved to London at 18. She currently works as a stripper while she’s taking acting classes. Her previous jobs include working as an au pair, a waitress and a hostess. Dalvia is also the author of one book, Strip: The Diary of a Hustler, a journal of her experiences as an exotic dancer.
About her book, she comments: “People are loving it. You have a guy who is 50, a girl who is 20, a banker, normal people, the reaction has just been really positive. Funnily enough, a load of my clients are buying it now, too. I say I am an author and they want to buy it because they do not expect a stripper to be an author. They are really intrigued. And people who have read it have said they did not expect it to be so good and they think it should be a movie or series. The feedback has been amazing.”
Read the original story from the Daily Star here.
