Lovefest Guard's Selfie With Orasanin Draws Mensur Question

A selfie with actress Jelisaveta Orasanin, taken at Lovefest in Vrnjacka Banja, is circulating on social media. It was posted by a man who worked security at the festival, and in the caption he wrote that he had walked the actress to a restaurant, talked with her and gotten her phone number. Underneath the post, actor Pavle Mensur, her partner, left a single question.

The post carries no date and no context, just a photo of the man with his arm firmly around the actress and a few lines describing how the picture came about. It is the caption, not the photo itself, that set off the wave of comments.

I wouldn’t be ME if I hadn’t met the best catch at Lovefest, one of the most beautiful actresses, walked her to a restaurant, talked to her, got her phone number and a selfie with a smile. Jelisaveta Orasanin, dragon woman!

The photo was then picked up by one of the pages that follow the domestic celebrity scene and went viral there. Orasanin is a regular at the Vrnjacka Banja festival, and this year was no exception, with the actress again spotted among the crowd.

What Pavle Mensur Wrote

Mensur commented under the photo, briefly and with no preamble.

When did this happen?

The reply came not from the actress but from the administrator of the page where the photo had landed.

We don’t know, Pavle, but Jelisaveta has the number, so ask the man.

That exchange is what pushed the post further. Until that point the photo had been just one of many festival keepsakes, and only after the reply did it start spreading widely.

Is the Story in the Post Even True

Part of the audience did not believe the security guard’s account. The doubts ran in three directions, with these reactions repeated most often:

• “Who actually got the number?”
• “This guy’s telling some fairy tale”
• “I’m sure this is AI”

The first two question whether the phone numbers were ever actually exchanged. The third goes a step further, claiming the photo itself was generated by artificial intelligence, a comment that has been showing up under a growing number of celebrity photos this season. None of these claims has been confirmed. Neither the actress nor the man who posted the photo has commented publicly on what was written underneath it, and nobody close to the actress has issued a statement. The only person to weigh in in the comments was Pavle Mensur.

A Relationship They No Longer Hide

The relationship between Jelisaveta Orasanin and her younger co-star had been the subject of speculation in domestic media for months before the actress confirmed it. Since then the two have been seen together in public for the first time, also at a festival, and have not hidden the relationship since. Clips of them out together have also surfaced on social media.

That is why this particular comment drew more attention than it otherwise would have. Had the security guard’s photo gone up without Mensur’s question underneath it, it likely would have stayed on the profile of the man who posted it.

The whole episode is also a reminder of what summer festival season looks like for public figures. Fans film, photograph and post, and the caption underneath each photo is written by whoever is holding the phone. The person in the picture most often does not know the photo has gone up, let alone what was written under it.

Lovefest is held in Vrnjacka Banja and draws crowds from other cities as well. Public figures are a regular sight there, and this year one photo with a security guard traveled further than any of the festival’s own official posts.