A TikTok star who controversially married a traveller has told of the terrifying moment five masked men beat her and threatened to kill her in an armed raid.

Nikia Marshall, 24, a gorger - or ‘settled person’ who married a traveller - said she was beaten by the balaclava-clad men, who were armed with crowbars and a gun.

The former glamour model - whose husband Michael, a cousin of Paris Fury, was at work at the time - says she only survived by fleeing upstairs with her dogs.

And she believes she may have been targeted by members of the traveller community who are hostile to her because she's seen as an 'outsider'.

She said: “I think it’s because I’m an influencer online, and I post very controversial videos. I’m a bit of a comedian, but I’ve got dark humour.

"I’m married to a gypsy as well. Three years ago, there were arguments with gypsies up, down, left and right. I know that this was a gypsy-related thing.”

Chilling footage shows the balaclava-clad men had rushed to her address in Doncaster, South Yorks, and smashed the front door with a crowbar on Monday (20).

Nikia said she was asleep on the sofa at around 5.30pm when the raid started and had then confronted two intruders who broke through her glass back door.

She was hit by one of the men before fleeing with her two dogs, Bella and Princess, upstairs while they did ‘£100,000’ worth of damage to her kitchen and living room.

And as she looked out of her bedroom window below, the group's ‘chubby’ ringleader made a chilling threat to ‘shoot her’ and ‘finish the job’.

She said: “All I heard was popping sounds – bang, bang, bang.

“Two attackers got in at the back, and there were three at the front. One hit me, and I pushed him off and continued to run up the stairs.

“I just remember hanging out the window because I thought if they come up and they try and kill me, I can jump out my window.

“When I was hanging out the window, the main guy looked up at me and he said, ‘I’m going to come back and I’m going to finish the job – and I’m going to shoot you’.

She added: "One of them had a gun as well."

Nikia sprang to fame in 2021 when she fronted a six-part YouTube series called ‘I Married A Traveller’ with her roofer husband, Michael, 38.

The show revealed how she was branded a ‘prostitute’ and a ‘home-wrecker’ - and was rejected by her traveller in-laws due to not being a member of the community.

She also shamed men who later took to social media to pester her for sex, saying she was at one point getting 20 requests a day to cheat on her husband.

Nikia, who now runs the fashion store Red Hot Ltd on TikTok, said she had reported the attack to the police, who were now installing panic buttons in her property.

But she said her love for her two eight-year-old chihuahuas, Bella and Princess, had stopped her from getting seriously injured in the attack.

She said: “My dogs probably saved me from getting really badly hurt because I'm a bit of a fighter.