Could be fake

Remember the cyclist who ripped off a van’s wing mirror after getting catcalled?

Eyewitnesses to the alleged incident have now spoken out – and there’s a good chance the whole thing was staged.

The video showed a woman chasing the van in her bike and ripping off the mirror in central London, after the driver asked if she was ‘on her period’.

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The whole thing was apparently filmed by a motorcyclist, who was riding behind the van as the scene unfolded. It was then released by viral content firm Jungle Creations.


A witness has now told The Sun that they saw 26-year-old James Bolding, who co-owns Jungle Creations, giving instructions to actors beforehand.



Scott Deane, a builder, told the paper he was working across the road when he saw this ‘very attractive girl with a bike’ talking to Bolding, who was giving her instructions.

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‘Then, three guys dressed in orange site clothes turned up in a van and the blonde bloke was giving them instructions too,’ he said.

‘He was telling the girl, “You need to ride behind the van aggressively”.’

The actors apparently then practiced the scene a few times, before getting the final shot – by which time the wing mirror was already quite loose.

Jungle Creations co-founder Paul Bieboer claimed the firm only ‘received the content’, and didn’t make the video themselves.

‘It’s a source we’ve never used before,’ he told the paper. ‘As a company we’ve known them for a few years, but never really licensed videos from them.’

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However, he refused to hand over details of the person or place they sourced the video from.

If the video is fake, it could add to the (incorrect) notion that women are exaggerating or ‘making it up’ when they really are catcalled.

It could also land some victims in dangerous situations – if this were real, there would be no telling how aggressive that van driver could have become or how they might have retaliated.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Jungle Creations for further comment.