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Interviewer
The sun has gone down here in Las Vegas. It's a Friday night, and after ducking and diving commitments all week, Bonnie's laying low at the luxury house she's renting with her entourage. It's a gorgeous white mansion with a circular driveway out front behind some really high fences, the white Range Rovers parked right out the front. It's the kind of house that you'd see in a movie, like Clueless. And it seems like the door is open. I'll knock, but it's open. I'm just going to go in. I invite myself inside, walk down the hallway and into the living room, where Bonnie's little sister is sitting at the dining room table. Hey, Summer, how you going? Oh, my goodness. You're doing a jigsaw puzzle. Hey, what's going on?
Bonnie Blue
I'm determined to get it done before I go. I won't be happy until it's done right. I think just got out of bed. I'm not doing very well.
Interviewer
Across the room, hardcore scenes of Bonnie having sex flicker on a computer screen. Bonnie's videographer, Joshua Spooner, is lazing on the couch, editing the 12 hours of footage from last week's world record gang bang. The life of Bonnie Blue that's playing out in the real world doesn't quite match the sweaty sexiness on the screen. The chateau is littered with greasy paper bags of fast food and crumpled burger wrappers. Josh, what did you guys have for dinner? Is that Wendy's?
Bonnie Blue
Chick Fil A?
Interviewer
Chick Fil A? Chick Fil A? Chick Fil A.
Josh
There will be, like, Diet Cokes everywhere, Pepsi Max's everywhere, water everywhere.
Interviewer
Just like an elite athlete, a professional porn star has very specific nutrition normally.
Josh
So if someone gets hungry, they tend to just order like an obscene amount, and then we don't put it away. We just forget about it.
Interviewer
Josh glances down at the sex tape on his computer screen and watches his boss pleasuring just some of the 1,000 men at the orgy. These are the tapes that sceptics in the industry are speculating and perhaps even hoping don't exist. And there's a chance this footage won't actually see the light of day. Around the corner, Bonnie is in the kitchen, sitting on a stool at the stone bench top, sipping soft drink from a giant cardboard cup and figuring out her next move after being rocked by bad news.
Bonnie Blue
I was literally bed bound for like a full week. Didn't leave the bed, didn't eat, didn't. Yeah, didn't do anything. I've never sort of had flu, so Bad.
Interviewer
She looks exhausted. But it's not just the illness. I've walked into her house of cards crashing down in real time, to be honest.
Bonnie Blue
Like this last 24 hours has been very, very stressful. We obviously had a lot of team meetings because when we found out we was like, what do we do? What is this going to impact?
Interviewer
And we're like, it's a code red for Team Bonnie. They've been locked in emergency negotiations trying to halt the potential loss of millions of dollars. After bragging about the control she has as an independent creator, Bonnie has had the rug pulled out from under her. OnlyFans, the major subscription platform she uses to publish most of her content, has seemingly tried to distance itself from the scandal plagued creator by announcing it's banning Bonnie's gang bang challenge from being posted.
Bonnie Blue
Which is new news to me. I've only learned out about this in the last 24:40 hours. Gradually are moving away from all content creators, uploading videos of people which aren't established porn stars and already on the platform. And it was something OnlyFans were going to do towards the end of the year. But, but because I've had so much publicity around the world record and obviously it's a very high number, they've brought it forward to say, okay, Bonnie Blue is not going to release the gangbang on OnlyFans.
Interviewer
In a statement to media, the company said OnlyFans is a platform designed for creators who have completed our comprehensive onboarding process and choose to monetize their content to keep our community safe. OnlyFans also verifies the age, identity and consent of all parties featured in explicit content. We do not allow a large number of non OnlyFans creators to be featured on an account, even when release forms have been provided. This completely destroys Bonnie's business model and her brand of porn that relies on anonymous everyday civilians who line up to have sex with her.
Bonnie Blue
Obviously up until recently my sole income is from OnlyFans and my content's probably 50% porn stars and content creators and 50% students, husbands and things like the world record. So when we found out, it was obviously was a shock because I've always stayed within OnlyFans guidelines. But obviously I was not to know that their plan this year was to remove anyone that was using consent forms. And I obviously rely very heavily on consent forms.
Interviewer
It seems verifying ages and having everyday people sign contracts will no longer be enough. Bonnie has been calculating how much money she'll lose day to day.
Bonnie Blue
So obviously it's a potential half a mil a Month, because I earn just over a million pounds a month. So for some people, if they lost their OnlyFans, it's $10,000 a month. For me, it's a massive, massive impact. I have a very big team that I employ, so they know if my money's impacted, their money's impacted. So, yeah, the whole team was panicking.
Interviewer
A bit because mansions in Las Vegas and private jets don't pay for themselves, do they?
Bonnie Blue
Exactly. And it's a lifestyle that I am very keen to continue living, so.
Interviewer
Well, that goes back to my question of when a lot of people think on the DIY platforms, it gives them a lot of control, but they're still on their knees, if you will say, when it comes to the people running these platforms and they can change the guidelines on a whim, you know, does that ever unsettle you about having your rely on different companies like that?
Bonnie Blue
This last 24 hours couldn't have been a bigger knock to us as a team. Finding out I couldn't post my gang minds and my future events on a platform which earns me a lot of money.
Interviewer
Team Bonnie has been frantically trying to bail the water out of the ship. Bonnie's publicist, Emma, says OnlyFans gave the team no warning. Frustrated, negotiations with the company ensued and now they're trying to think of other ways to share the world record gang bang.
Bonnie Blue
So we're gonna set up my own website, basically, where people can purchase this more niche content. OnlyFans is always gonna be a platform I use and I really like it, but in terms of the niche content of the students or big gangbangs that's gonna be sold on a separate platform.
Interviewer
In a way, launching her own subscription website is really just a retro throwback to the old school porn business model. Team Bonnie is forging ahead. Josh continues to sweat over the edit of the gangbang tapes. He seems to be spurred on by this rejection and taken it as a dare.
Josh
It put a minute of stress because obviously, you know, that's where we post everything. That's like the bread and butter of what we do. But what people need to learn in this world is whatever you chuck at us, we will make a solution and it will be better than what we originally had.
Interviewer
Bonnie speculates this decision by OnlyFans has been prompted by the negative press that has surrounded her for months. In a way, she says that she's being punished for being too talked about.
Bonnie Blue
The reason onlyfans had to do this statement just a few hours ago to say it was, you know, body blue can't sell a gang bang. It's because of how much publicity I get. When I saw that the media was so uproar with me sleeping with 18 year olds, it encouraged me to do it more. So I was like, this clearly is very controversial. And I'm aware when people watch porn they like controversial stuff. So the media helps in a way guide me of what to do next.
Interviewer
So do you lean into the uproar and lean into the controversy?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, 100%.
Interviewer
Do you court it?
Bonnie Blue
Caught it.
Interviewer
In what way do you actively seek it out?
Bonnie Blue
I wouldn't say I seek out. Maybe to start with, yes. Now it just happens. It just follows me regardless whether I talk in the media or not.
Interviewer
It started with the barely legal stunts at schoolies and reached fever pitch over the past week with the world record gang bang. It seems this at all cost pursuit of notoriety has backfired. Did she thrust too close to the sun?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, I have to show you around the house.
Interviewer
You show me around the house. The same. Bonnie shrugs off her business woes and tries to hide any hint of concern. As she shows me around the mansion, she commits to the Bonnie Blue character from her sardonic TikTok videos.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, there's a poker table. We did try to learn how to play poker, but it's too difficult for me. I'm blonde and suck dick. I cannot do poker.
Interviewer
Aloof and ready to deflect with offhand racier sides that always seem to come.
Bonnie Blue
Back to sex pool table. I actually want to use this to take some naked photos and I feel like that would be quite a cool, cool photo to apply to. I feel like men would like that photo.
Interviewer
As Bonnie swans out to the mini golf course and tennis court and glistening swimming pool complete with water to fall, she reminisces about her old life before porn.
Bonnie Blue
I'd wake up probably about 5 o', clock, I'd go to the gym. Straight from the gym I'd go and sit in an office doing recruitment probably at. My hours were sort of 8 till about 6, 6:30.
Interviewer
Was it a boring life?
Bonnie Blue
It was as good as life, I thought could be. It was literally just spending my whole life trying to make that 20% better. That 20% was a Saturday and Sunday and I thought the only way life got better was fancier holidays or you have to upgrade your car or you need to have a fancy house. And I just got that focused on trying to make that 20% better that I realized that's not the part you need to focus on, it's the 80%. It's your Monday to Friday that you need to improve on, otherwise your life is going to stay the same.
Interviewer
Now her life couldn't be more different. Her publicist, Emma, is rushing out the door to pick up VIP passes to a porn party that the team plans on attending later tonight.
Bonnie Blue
Alex can go us all into our party if you want.
Interviewer
Everyone.
Bonnie Blue
What do you want to go just for like half. I don't want to go. I mean, obviously other like you and Josh or whatever could stay for longer. I just know like my social battery, it would take me like an hour and a half to get ready though. So he needs me to go and pick up passes. So I'll go in and grab them because what could I get that maybe 10 o', clock? Not nine? Yeah. Okay, perfect. Reconvene.
Interviewer
Talking about making life that 20% better. What ways were you going about it?
Bonnie Blue
Just holidays. I could go on like a nice holiday each year. I had drove a nice car because I thought that was the best I could do.
Interviewer
What kind of car were you driving at the time?
Bonnie Blue
A Mercedes C Class.
Interviewer
Wow.
Bonnie Blue
So it's a nice car. Yeah, yeah.
Interviewer
Like you were still living a good life.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah. I mean, that car probably cost me about a year's wage.
Interviewer
Could you afford it at the time or were you living beyond your means? A little bit?
Bonnie Blue
I could afford it, but I was very much pushing. Was. I definitely pushed my. I don't know how the best way to word it, but pushing the boundaries in terms of what I was spending, I guess in terms of what I was earning.
Interviewer
Were you ever in debt?
Bonnie Blue
No. Like, never had a credit card, never been in debt. Like, I've worked from the age of 13. I used to be a dance teacher. I worked at Pound Stretcher. I was a waitress and then I started in recruitment at the age of like 15, 16. So I've always worked, I've always had money, so never had money problems, but I never obviously had the. The money I've got now.
Interviewer
Do you ever worry that the money you have now could all go away?
Bonnie Blue
No, obviously it could happen. But I'm very clever with my money. I save a lot of my money and if I wanted to stop now and say, like, invest my money to do property or something else, I've got the options to do that. But I think, why would I want to stop doing this? Why would I want to stop having sex?
Interviewer
Do you still enjoy sex?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, for sure. Like, I enjoy sex so much more now than what I did before because I have learned to speak up more in the bedroom of what I enjoy. I have had that much. It's like a cv. I've now got so much experience in the bedroom. I know exactly what I like, what pleasures me the most. And I enjoy like sex so much more now than what I used to.
Interviewer
What was your sex life like before?
Bonnie Blue
I'd say like sex sort of three times a week just before I went to bed. It was very typical, like, typical sex life, I guess, for a married couple.
Interviewer
Bonnie's manager, Ollie, who is also secretly the husband she's talking about, is sitting nearby. As his wife speaks about their monotonous sex life, he sheepishly gets up and walks into another room. Bonnie continues to talk about her husband as if he's a distant memory and not someone who's actually just metres away from us. How long were you married for?
Bonnie Blue
Got married when I was 21, I think it was married for three years and I was with my partner from the age of 14.
Interviewer
Right. And that was that, Ollie. Right, yeah. The end of their relationship is still murky, but Bonnie insists it's over.
Bonnie Blue
No, it's married, like finished last year.
Interviewer
Last year. Okay. But you had already started your, your adult entertainment career.
Bonnie Blue
Yes.
Interviewer
And you had started. You dipped your toe into the waters just by cam going, right.
Bonnie Blue
I thought I'd hate it. I thought the people was going to be weird. I thought it was just going to be old people just sat there and actually, obviously, yeah, you did have some older people, but there was younger people. But I really loved the interaction and speaking to people and learning about different people's lives.
Interviewer
And what were the guys like?
Bonnie Blue
Gosh, you had like anything from like really young people, like really good looking that was, you know, super hot. And I wasn't expecting that. And they sort of made me fluster a little bit because, I don't know, in my head I was expecting these old, fat, ugly people at home. That was just lonely. I wasn't expecting to have such a wide range of, I guess, clients. But yeah, some of them were really hot and at uni, some of them was married and just wanted to have a bit of a break, you know, from, from work or from their wife. So yeah, it was a nice mixture in my mind.
Interviewer
I picture what's happening right now on the other side of the desert in the nicotine centred hallways of the porn convention where performers like Angela White are meeting their obsessive fans. Meanwhile, Bonnie's here isolating herself inside this luxury mansion that her own subscribers, many of whom I assume fit her description of Old, fat, ugly, and lonely are paying for. When I hint at this, she changes her tune. The guys that you're describing that you were worried about would be on there. I imagine you still encounter a lot of guys like that, right?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah. But then, like, I sort of saw them in a different light. Like, I used to think they was desperate or it was weird to speak to a cam girl online. Then I just realized they're just lonely. They want interaction, and they want to speak to someone. So I started to judge a lot less.
Interviewer
Do you still have judgments?
Bonnie Blue
Not anymore. Used to. I used to think, why are they obsessed with feet? Or why do they, like, in a way, I would judge what they was asking for. Then I realized I'm able to offer them an open space, zero judgment. Somewhere they can come and have their fetishes or to have a break from their stressful life. And, yeah, I guess I just stopped judging completely. I even probably used to drill, like, judge sex workers. I used to think it was like prostitution, stood on the side of the road quite dirty, thought they was doing it because they needed money. And I can even. I'm, gosh. And it's going to sound very bad when you'd hear movies or you'd hear someone had been murdered and the papers go, oh, but there was a sex work. And you're like, oh, well, in your head, you sort of think, what did they expect? Or what do they think was going to happen when they're turning up to these clients? And that is really, really bad for me to have been that ignorant or thought when these people used to get hurt, in my head, I go, what do they expect? And really, that is the complete wrong attitude to have. So, yeah, now I don't judge whatsoever, but I'm not bothered that I heavily get judged myself. Sex work isn't dirty. It's doing a beautiful act. Focus on pleasure. I'll show you the bedroom. It's a little bit messy.
Interviewer
Bonnie pads through the living area past her videographer who's hard at work.
Bonnie Blue
Josh is on the sofa editing or pretending to edit. He's editing the world record.
Interviewer
On the computer screen, there's a shot of Bonnie, you on your knees in front of a guy.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah.
Interviewer
What are you doing?
Bonnie Blue
I wanking him off. And then that one. Gosh, I don't know how many men is in that.
Interviewer
Give me the. The tally again.
Bonnie Blue
1057 men.
Interviewer
And what did you set out to do?
Bonnie Blue
A thousand.
Interviewer
Bonnie flits away into her private wing of the mansion.
Bonnie Blue
And then, yeah, a very messy bedroom. This is my mess. So what happens is after I take the clothes off, it never gets back in the wardrobe. Like my wardrobe. Actually. I'll show you my wardrobe. Probably. Probably the clothes I've brought with me is probably about £250,000.
Interviewer
£250,000 worth of designer clothes.
Bonnie Blue
Yep.
Interviewer
And you've just acquired them since you got a stylist about how long ago?
Bonnie Blue
Since September. So these, I've probably got about 400,000 pounds of clothes.
Interviewer
This is a very expensive house. Millions and millions of dollars. And they've got IKEA wardrobes in the walk in closet.
Bonnie Blue
They have, yeah. I mean, to be fair, they're like the more what they're called, curtains are falling off as well. Yeah. So this blazer is Chanel, Valentino, Fendi. These are some basic tops from Louis Vuitton. This is Versace. And yeah, these are just like Louis Vuitton. Doren, what is that brand? What's the G1 do? Yeah, that's it.
Interviewer
Do and Gabbana.
Bonnie Blue
A lot of people say I look 45 and give me a lot of hate, but it's because I wear a lot of things like this, which is like a tweed blazer.
Interviewer
The Chanel boucle blazer. Yeah, yeah.
Bonnie Blue
And these just Louis Vuitton Bottega Veneta.
Interviewer
Everything's still got the tags on it.
Bonnie Blue
I know there's like Chanel bags.
Interviewer
Yeah. There's a blue quilted Chanel bag and there's. Is that a Bottega banana? What's that one? Oh, no, just drop it on the floor. It doesn't mean anything. You can just buy a new one.
Bonnie Blue
Oh, this is a dress I'm wearing for the red carpet.
Interviewer
And this is the custom made, I believe, isn't it? Or it's one off. But then you had it customized from Louis Vuitton after some complaints were lodged.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah. It is completely sheer at the side, so it'll be no underwear. So I'm gonna wear a nipple plaster to cover my vagina.
Interviewer
Yeah, it's very sheer. It's like netting.
Bonnie Blue
It looks like a fishing net.
Interviewer
And how much did you spend on it?
Bonnie Blue
I think that was about £22,000. So like 44,000 aud. And obviously I had to go to Paris to pick it up. I think sometimes when you people see me, especially when I'm doing things like going to Louis Vuitton, picking up a dress from a Runway, I think, do they know how I pay for this? I pay for this by, you know, by sleeping with people for free. So I Think it just feels surreal sometimes. But I love how different it is, how I go from beer, I guess, prim and proper sometimes to them being treated like an absolute slut, being spat on, slapped. And I absolutely love the difference.
Interviewer
Have you ever felt judged in any of those stores that you, that you.
Bonnie Blue
Go into 100% sometimes.
Interviewer
Do they know who you are?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, I think I'm very naive sometimes think, oh, they don't know who I am. And my stylist very much like, no, of course we know who you are. And yeah, I'm not walking around going, oh my God, I'm a slut. Oh my God, I love sucking dick and I have sex with people all the time. Like you can have a lot of sex, do what I do and then also be very, I guess, normal and very wholesome and that you don't need to walk around saying you're a slut. And I don't walk around telling everyone in detail about what I'd get up to. I would say it sometimes and people sometimes laugh because I say it in such a. My side of Sal, what have you done this morning? Oh, I went and did a gang bang this morning or oh my God, no, I've still not showered, I've still got a bit of come in my hair and he's like, oh my God. I just don't. He forgets sometimes some of the things that are going to come out my mouth. But I'm very much aware of my surroundings and I know how to talk in different situations. So when I am going to these fancy boutiques or I'm, you know, going to Louis Vuitton, I know how to hold myself and have a conversation.
Interviewer
Do you ever feel like there's going to be a bit of a Pretty Woman moment? You know that movie?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, I know. No, but not really. But yeah, I do. I generally find my life surreal sometimes.
Interviewer
It seems like luxury brands are a little more open minded about their clientele these days. Or at least they've learnt that turning down a sale in this economy, big mistake, huge. Bonnie leaves her small fortune of sparkly designer clothes all tangled in a ball on the floor of the walk in closet and tiptoes back out into the master suite, curling up on the end of her unmade bed. Her blonde hair is matted and mussed and she's wearing a powder blue pyjama set from Victoria's Secret.
Bonnie Blue
When people think, oh, I'm at home in pajamas, they're expecting, you know, sexy ones. And I'm like, no, like the Comfy ones. The ones Victoria's Secret keep behind the counter.
Interviewer
We're kicking back on Bonnie's bed.
Bonnie Blue
Quite comfy pillows, aren't they?
Interviewer
Yeah. And there's a toilet roll by blowing my nose to blow your nose.
Bonnie Blue
I've slept with sheets that are covered in cum and haven't been washed for weeks. I'm really not fussy when it comes to sleeping.
Interviewer
When you were a little girl, what kind of life did you aspire to?
Bonnie Blue
See, I never really. It's not that I didn't dream, but I never thought, oh, my God, this is my goal, or this is my dream job, or this is what I want to do. It was always, I just want to be on holiday all the time. I want to be by the beach. I want to, like, I just wanted to be happy. I remember thinking, I just want to do what makes me happy. And before I used to think happiness. And I think this is what most people do get so fixated on. Oh, happiness is being married, having children, buying a house. And I think it's because everyone around you sort of does that. So naturally you think, okay, to be happy, I need to be in a long term relationship. I need to think about having children. And when I did the long term relationship, I was like, okay, I'm happy, but I know I could be happy. Like, this is not what defines happiness. Because even I used to think when my friends were single, like, oh, my God, surely their current life goal is to find somebody. And that was a very wrong way to think about it because really, anything you want to do in life, you can do it alone. You don't need to ever, I guess, rely on someone else to make you happy.
Interviewer
As she talks about independence and not needing a man, she plays with a ring on one of her fingers.
Bonnie Blue
This is actually my old engagement ring.
Interviewer
Oh, right.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah. I still wear it because I like jewellery.
Interviewer
Bonnie was not expecting me to be in her bedroom tonight, which might explain why she hasn't cleaned up. But it's not just her own clothes that are tossed around on the floor. There's a pair of men's Hugo Boss underwear and a man's Louis Vuitton shirt. And a suitcase with more designer men's clothing spilling out of it. Sitting here in Bonnie's private master suite, the unmade bed looks like it has been slept in on both sides. Are Bonnie and Ollie actually still together? I can't help but think back to the first day I met Ollie, Bonnie's manager and supposed ex lover. It's a Dolce and Gabbana jacket, LV shirt and I've got a Rolex Daytona on in yellow gold and a Bulgari ring as well. Along with his yen for luxury goods, he has an aversion to being identified as Bonnie's husband. I've known her quite a long time, so we've got quite a unique relationship. So I don't know what I can say on this.
Bonnie Blue
Pardon?
Interviewer
You keep it subtle. Yeah. Are you guys exes? I don't want to say that on. Sure. People don't like the idea that there's no men in the background helping her out. When's the last time you had sex?
Bonnie Blue
The world record.
Josh
Yeah.
Interviewer
And when will the next time be?
Bonnie Blue
Hopefully soon, probably. I don't know, about a few days. Time, week's time, whenever.
Interviewer
Will that be for fun or will that be for work?
Bonnie Blue
For fun. I'm not really working whilst I'm here. Have a lot of sex off camera. Like, I'm not always fun. A bit sex.
Interviewer
How much sex do you have off camera?
Bonnie Blue
Not as much as what people think. Because a lot of my sex is on camera and because I don't date, it's not like I have a crazy sex life off camera.
Interviewer
So how do you find people? Like, are you. Are you on the dating apps?
Bonnie Blue
No, I'm not on dating apps. I don't really know, like, sometimes like the guy I'm sleeping with a lot in the uk, he was somebody that queued for me for freshers and I thought he was super good looking, super nice and then I just kept sleeping with him afterwards. So often I find these people from the people that are in my queues.
Interviewer
So you said that you hope to have sex in a few days time. How will you locate a guy?
Bonnie Blue
It might be from the party tonight if I speak to someone or see someone. It's just however, really. So I like to keep it spontaneous.
Interviewer
And if all else fails. Fails. She could just sleep with the man whose jocks are already on her bedroom floor and whose engagement ring is on her finger. I stop short of asking point blank. Emma, the publicist has warned to not ask about Ollie and his relationship with Bonnie. I'm hoping to interview Bonnie again tomorrow as she gets ready for the Oscars of porn. And given the team's temperamental nature, I feel I need to save any questions about secret marriages until the end of the week. Besides, Bonnie has more pressing issues to discuss, like come encrusted diamonds.
Bonnie Blue
I'll show you a necklace that you will like. I got this for the red carpet. I wore this for the world record. And, yeah, this is a 70,000 pound necklace. Necklace. I always get necklace and necklace wrong.
Interviewer
Oh, wow. It sparkles under the light, doesn't it? So you wore it during the world record challenge?
Bonnie Blue
I got it covered in cum. My stylist was like, please tell me you've not just worn that. And I was like, well, yeah, because for him, like my stylist, red carpets are everything to me. A gang bang is my everything.
Interviewer
So were you always into gang bangs?
Bonnie Blue
Never done it until I started this job. Before, I'd have been like, well, why do you want that many people? I wouldn't have understood. Whereas now I absolutely love it.
Interviewer
Does it turn you on now or do you do it because you know it's going to work for the content?
Bonnie Blue
Like, I do it because it turns me on, but I also love being able to pleasure that many people. So it's sort of like there's so many reasons of why I do it because, like, when I did the world record recently, I only finished. I only orgasm twice, but I did it for 12 hours. So it's like it turns me on being able to pleasure that many people and see. Seeing that many people happy. So there's sort of like multiple reasons of why I do it.
Interviewer
What do you feel self conscious about?
Bonnie Blue
I'm very, very confident, so there's not much I feel so, I guess, self conscious about. I used to have eczema. I've still got, I guess, eczema's kids. So sometimes my skin's a bit blotchy. I'm not really insecure. Yeah, I don't really sort of criticize myself anymore. Like, before, I can remember not even wanting to go to the beach some days because I thought, oh, my tummy doesn't look flat or, oh, my skin looks too patchy. Whereas now I just don't care. It's like, if I want to do something, I'll do it. I don't care if I don't feel like I look amazing. Like, I do it for the experience, not because I'm feeling insecure.
Interviewer
And Summer's just walked in. What's going on, Summer?
Bonnie Blue
Oh, just looking at some hair rollers. Just gonna say.
Interviewer
Bonnie's little sister has been given her first task as a paid member of the entourage. Her mission, ordering hair rollers online to be delivered to the mansion tonight before they leave for the party.
Bonnie Blue
It's cvs, Target, Ulta, Walgreens or whatever. All them do the same thing. Yeah, I don't know these then Would you say there's anything I'm insecure about? I said what I said is my skin's blotchy. Yeah, but I don't think you should be insecure about that. But you are. But I was trying to think, is there anything like I'd say. I was saying before I wouldn't even go to the beach sometimes because I felt insecure. Like, I wore oversized T shirts because I just felt like people were staring at me. I'd say what people think I'd say I'm insecure about is that people say I look old. But we laugh about it. Yeah, but that's the weird thing is because then everyone at work, everyone goes, oh, my God, he needs to tell me what tear users. Yeah, because it's like people comment saying, oh, my God, I look really old or my skin's bad.
Interviewer
Online, Bonnie's critics speculate she's not really 25. But tracing her digital footprint back to her teenage years, it seems the math does add up to her being in her mid-20s. These rumours seem to bruise Bonnie more than she'd like to admit.
Bonnie Blue
And people go, oh, my God, I didn't know she was younger than me. You got on the profile thinking you look like fucking self.
Interviewer
Talk of the gossip sends the sisters into a spin about the anonymous detractors.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah. Like in their profile, they've got yellow teeth, they're missing. They look like they're living in a council house with about 10 different kids, which is absolutely fine. But then they're sat there saying, I look older than them. It's like, I don't comment on people's appearance. But you look like dog. Like, I do not look like your age.
Interviewer
Josh pokes his head into the room. He wants to leave for the party. Half nine.
Josh
We're leaving.
Bonnie Blue
Half. Yeah. I'll hop in the shower.
Josh
Soonish disbelief that she thinks she's going to be ready in time.
Bonnie Blue
Well, I'm the main character, so if I'm not ready, we don't leave. It's as simple as that.
Josh
I forgot the mics are on. She's showing off.
Bonnie Blue
Is that not true? Am I not the talent? Are we not all here because of me? I am the main character.
Interviewer
Well, being the main character, I imagine there's a bit of theater that goes along with that.
Bonnie Blue
Right, yeah.
Interviewer
How much of it is the Bonnie Blue character? Sort of just a facade, I think.
Bonnie Blue
When I'm doing my TikToks, I say things which I know people are going to click on. So whether I'm saying Barely Legal or I'm talking about husbands. Or recently I've been saying barely breathing. I'm saying it because I know it's going to get picked up, but then. But then I also don't see it as an act because it's also true. Like, I do genuinely want to sleep with Barely Legal and I do want to sleep with people that are much older. So it's like a. I don't know, I'd say a good, good balance of. Don't know if act the right word because it's. It's. It's not an act. But I'm saying it because I know it's clicky.
Interviewer
Would you say it's less of an act and it's more. You're gleefully antagonizing people and winding people up?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, probably like women and, you know, I'm more than happy to piss women off.
Interviewer
Does it kind of delight you to wind people up like that?
Bonnie Blue
Oh, I love it because it's like, I will go and sleep with your son and husband then. So I have no problem with winding them up. Like, when I see obviously a lot of women giving me hate, I think you're sat there. You probably don't work because there's no way you could be sat there that obsessing over me while your husband's going to work. You're sat there just whinging, being in a negative mindset. Like, your husband doesn't want to be with you when he. Like that he doesn't want to be around with you. So then, yeah, I am going to pleasure him and give him a good time while she'll sat there. Just no other way to put it other than just bitching.
Interviewer
Bonnie seems to have no issue making judgments and assumptions about the people she believes are making judgments and assumptions about her.
Bonnie Blue
People forget no one wants to be around someone that's negative. And these women that I see online give me a lot of hate. I just think if you was honestly successful and happy, you couldn't possibly be as negative towards me as, you know, as what you'd be in. I guess the only one that hurt me there was a video of my granddad that's passed away, and they said that he sexually assaulted me. And they're like, oh, this is Bonnie's real dad. He sexually assaulted her. And I suppose my granddad that passed away and it was like, no, he hasn't. And that's the only time that it sort of hurt me because it sort of included my family or it's felt like they're talking bad about my granddad that has done nothing wrong but had a beautiful relationship with him. So that's the only time it sort of bothered me. But my family deals with it very well and I sort of always said to him as well, like, look, you are going to have to accept the good, the bad and the ugly with it because you also have a better life because of it.
Interviewer
Now, was there ever a moment where there was a bit of a struggle where, like, the family had to kind of get over some things?
Bonnie Blue
I guess the first week my mum found out, she was, I say disappointed, but just didn't understand why I chose to do it.
Interviewer
And what was that? What was that week? What had you chosen to do?
Bonnie Blue
Well, she'd find out I was in the industry, like, only fans.
Interviewer
Okay?
Bonnie Blue
So I just wanted. I didn't speak to her that week. I just sort of said, look, I'm going to be doing this regardless whether you support me or not. This is what I'm doing. And she's like, look, we don't really necessarily want to be involved in at that level or that capacity. Whereas now they're more than supportive and everyone's accepted it.
Interviewer
And they've also got new cars.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, they get. They get new cars, but. And as well, like, I see. I've joked about that a few times, saying, oh, yeah, and I'll pay my family. And then they say, well, family forces are into it. A family, pimps are out. If I said to my family, I'm stopping now, you're going to have to go and find a job, they wouldn't care, like my family, like no other family. They just want me to be happy and they see how happy I am, so they're supportive. If I was going home each day after I've been filming, crying and saying, oh, I don't like it, then yes, it'd be concerned and ask, you know, saying, stop it. But when they see that I'm happy, of course they're going to keep encouraging it because they can see it's having a positive effect on me. You.
Interviewer
What words would you use to describe your style of pornography?
Bonnie Blue
O. I guess realistic, relatable and raw. It's not overly edited, it's not fake. It's just like, even when I work with other content creators, yes, it's fake in terms of it's a bit more edited or we've done a hair and makeup ready for it, but it's still a performance that I've wanted to do it.
Interviewer
There is some chatter on online and in the industry that a lot of the stunts being pulled by some of the DIY creators are fake. Does that criticism or do those rumors annoy you?
Bonnie Blue
I find it very boring.
Interviewer
Is any of it true?
Bonnie Blue
Most of them are fake. Yeah. I've worked with content creators that have put stuff out in the media and I sort of look at it and go, that's just made up. And like, what? Whether they've slept with X amount of people or saying they've done stuff similar to me and they just haven't. And I know people laugh when I say, but I work really hard to achieve either the numbers I do or the amount of students I've slept with. So I do find it annoying when people are making it up. But at the same time, I just feel sorry for him because I'm like, you talk the talk, but then when these people, you know, you've probably got a few headlines, but then they go to search on your platform and the videos aren't there. So I'm like, you're not. Your stories are in a way wasting time because they're not going to portray to money because the videos don't exist. So I more just feel sorry for them and think, do something which is gonna earn you money, or if you're in this industry just to get headlines, then continue lying. Because you know you will get headlines if you make stories up. But if you're doing it for money and pleasure, you're not pleasuring anyone. If the video's made up with the.
Interviewer
Lily Phillips beef that's kind of started. Who started this beef?
Bonnie Blue
See, I won't really say this beef. I think it's like more the media that are trying to make out there's some competition.
Interviewer
Yeah. Cause even in the industry, it's all anyone can talk about this week beef. And a lot of people are saying that even that's fabricated in the way that, you know, beefs are fabricated between rappers to try and get their names in the headlines. Is that, you know, is this another.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, we don't really talk. But that's just out of personal opinion.
Interviewer
Like is it's not another media stunt or it's not a stunt to get a headline?
Bonnie Blue
I've worked with Lily before. I wouldn't work with her again.
Interviewer
Why wouldn't you work with her again?
Bonnie Blue
It's just personal opinion. I prefer the content I do solo or with other people.
Interviewer
Have you ever fibbed about content or fibbed about something to get a headline?
Bonnie Blue
No, like my thing I've been so passionate about from day one is saying something truthful. And if it's not happened, I've just said, you know what, like no comment or like, no, it didn't happen.
Interviewer
So you've never lied about any of your content, but you do own up to, like, antagonizing people, you know, and to try and get some headlines.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, I will. I'll say certain things about Barely Legals. Like when they're walking around, I don't go, oh my God, I really want to sleep with you, you're barely legal. I don't use that terminology. However, I use that on my TikToks because I know it's going to wind people up and I know it's, it's going to get headlines. But I didn't originally come up with that. It was the media that kept using the word barely legal. And I thought, you know, if you're using that, I'm going to use it to my advantage. I'm not going to shy away from, I'm not going to take use it as an insult because I know when the media originally used it, they was doing it to try and damage me, going, oh, my God, she's saying, you know, she's gonna sleep with 18 year olds, which are barely legal. I was like, you know, I'll use that terminology myself then. Like, I'm not having you thinking you can say something which is damaging. I'll use it to my advantage.
Interviewer
And what do you say to the criticism around the barely legal content? The criticism being that yes, the guys are 18 years old and they can legally make the decision, but they're probably not informed, or they may not be as informed about making a decision, you know, that could last forever. Like being in pornography.
Bonnie Blue
I'll just say, well, why are you happy for him to sign up to the army?
Interviewer
A closer comparison might be the Girls Gone Wild video franchise from the 90s and 2000s. The founder, Joe Francis built a million dollar empire convincing college girls to lift their tops for cameras in exchange for a cheap t shirt and 15 seconds of fame. These days, we look back at Girls Gone Wild and kind of cringe. It's now seen by many as exploitative and problematic. What Bonnie's offering with her barely legal stunts is a gender swap with better wi fi. She's flipped the script. Same amateur exhibitionism, same blurred lines between empowerment and exploitation. Except now she's the one holding the camera and keeping the cash. It's capitalism with a British accent and a lot more attitude. Whether that makes it better or just differently problematic. Well, that depends who you ask. Bonnie has rehearsed her responses to all this criticism. She has her arguments ready to roll and she doesn't care if you can poke holes in her logic. She'll draw comparisons that don't quite stack up and then top it all off with some sexual innuendo.
Bonnie Blue
You know, if you're happy for them to shoot a gun, I'm pretty sure they can shoot their load on me.
Interviewer
What do you want your content to achieve?
Bonnie Blue
I wanted to educate a lot of people because porn is very fake and it can sometimes portray a very dangerous message to people because especially if they're new to sex or they're not educated in the bedroom. If you're watching someone do slapping, hair pulling and things like that and you're an 18 year old guy who's not had sex before, I'm like, how do they watch that? And then not potentially hurt the first girl they sleep with? Because they're not learning from anybody. So I really want people to be able to watch my content if they're new to sex and, or if they're just not experienced in the bedroom and be able to go, okay, this is how I slap somebody or this is how I pull their hair with things.
Interviewer
Like the world record challenge. Do you worry that that could teach them that that's the only way to enjoy sex in that environment?
Bonnie Blue
No, definitely not. Like, because they know things like that are different. It's a one off. It's sort of like going out for a McDonald's. You don't want to do it every day, but for the occasional time you want to do it, it's absolutely fine.
Interviewer
Good luck finding a teenager who knows how to eat McDonald's in moderation anyway. But couldn't they think the same thing about the hair pulling and the slapping?
Bonnie Blue
See, I always say to them as well, this is what I enjoy. This is how I like it. So I'm not saying that every girl would want it as hard as I do or want things the way I do, but they're learning their basics. It's sort of like I've said before, like, do a trial and error, like use me as a guinea pig.
Interviewer
Particularly with the younger audience. What sense of responsibility do you feel that you have?
Bonnie Blue
It's more just giving them an open space. Because like, I want them to know if you can't get hard straight away, don't be embarrassed. Like, I think a big thing with me is I want people to feel confident and happy and I know people when it comes to sex or being Naked, they feel so intimidated by it or they feel so judged. So it's just being able to give them a open space with no judgment.
Interviewer
And then Bonnie excuses herself.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, I need to try and go from looking like a 2 out of 10 to a 10 out of, which is probably going to be an impossible task, but yeah, probably finally shave my legs. I'm going to jump in the shower.
Interviewer
Bonnie rushes to strip off and get ready. Her videographer, Josh, is dramatically counting down the minutes to their departure. He admits to lying to his porn star boss.
Josh
I told her we're leaving at half nine. We're not leaving at half nine. But she'll be ready for the time we're actually leaving.
Interviewer
What's the time you're actually leaving?
Josh
10, 10 30.
Interviewer
10, 10 30. Is it gonna be a late night for you guys?
Josh
Maybe. I don't know. If we're having a good time, we'll stay for a bit. But once Bonnie wants to leave, it's sort of like Ollie and her will probably leave.
Interviewer
So Bonnie will leave with her ex and they'll go home together to the same bedroom. Josh kicks back on the giant L shaped sofa, swings his rubber flip flops up on the coffee table, straps his Beats headphones to his ears and goes back to editing the footage of Bonnie's world record gang bang on his MacBook laptop.
Josh
I've been working at it now for a few hours and how long it will take is there's no knowing. It's tedious because it just takes a long time.
Interviewer
As Josh talks about the monotony of the job, his sweaty porn star boss vigorously thrusts and grinds on his computer screen. The faint sound of moaning wails out of his headphones.
Josh
And the issue is if I pass it on to someone else, Bonnie's such a big business that I'm afraid to send it to anyone to edit because what they might do with it or they'll do it wrong, so I'd rather just do it myself. All of my experience comes from being a horny teenager, so with a very slight extreme addiction. So years of doing that and just I've always paid attention to detail. So same with watching movies. When I watch things, I don't just blindly watch it. Like I will assess the characters, the outfits, the lighting, the angles, the frame rate, they're speeding in. Like I can assess a whole thing and know what's going to happen without even watching it before.
Interviewer
Who are some of your favorite porn directors?
Josh
Oh, I haven't got favourite porn directors because my favourite porn's amateur. So there is no direction.
Interviewer
At 27 years old, this self described extreme porn addict who barely talks above a whisper has been working with Bonnie for about four months. He shoots all her videos on an iPhone.
Josh
It's relatable. I think that's the best kind really.
Interviewer
I know you said this half in jest, but I just want to go back to it. Did you have a slight to extreme porn addiction?
Josh
It depends on your perception of addiction. But yeah, I was just a horny teenager like any. Like any other guy, like just. Yeah, I watched porn over the years. I just watched it from. From my point of view, it's just different to most, which is why I do what I do now.
Interviewer
So you basically get paid to watch porn for a living. How often do you consume porn just in your. In your personal life?
Josh
I don't really. It's sort of takes it away way like the specialness it had in my, my head. So nowadays it's. I don't really watch porn to get off because I, I see how it's all done.
Interviewer
With the porn that you have to edit for work, does it ever turn you on?
Josh
No, never.
Interviewer
And why is that?
Josh
Because when I'm shooting, it's. I'm looking at lighting, I'm looking at angles, I'm making sure the girl's not bleeding. I'm making sure if the guy needs to wear a condom, that he's wearing, that the organisation's correct, that the cameras are rolling. The job is never done because there's always more to do. And if there isn't more to do, we'll make sure there is more to do because that's how you remain rich and successful.
Interviewer
The whirling sound of a hairdryer starts echoing down the hallway. It's coming from the bathroom of the master suite. Bonnie is freshly showered. And now before stepping out in public public, she's making sure her mask is firmly secured. Literally.
Bonnie Blue
So I'd put the effort to put a face mask on, try and get rid of this dry skin and then making the effort to go around the hair. Yeah. So now you face scrub face mask. And then I rub the face mask off once I've in my hair.
Interviewer
In her endless quest to combat the online trolls who say she looks decades older than 25 years old, Bonnie has applied more exfoliating acids to her face. It's caused a bit of a flare up.
Bonnie Blue
Just put a face mask on because my skin is so dry.
Josh
Is that why your face is red?
Bonnie Blue
Red, yeah. I'm gonna wipe it off. Once I've done my hair.
Josh
Okay.
Bonnie Blue
I always get asked about my skin.
Interviewer
How do you achieve the Bonnie Blue glow?
Bonnie Blue
Oh, come and then. Very trustworthy. Nivea moisturizer.
Interviewer
Wait, so do you use the body lotion on your face?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, I mean it's multi purpose.
Interviewer
She picks up a glass bottle of Jo Malone myrrh and Tonka fragrance, spritzing the nape of her tanned neck. The bathroom clouds with the rich and woody scent.
Bonnie Blue
I love this perfume. Just like it's more unisex, but it is. Yeah.
Interviewer
So do you mind? Can I smell like Bonnie Blue? Can you spray a bit on me?
Bonnie Blue
I mean, you just need a bit of commodity then it's a Bonnie Blue.
Interviewer
How long has that been your scent?
Bonnie Blue
Oh my gosh, for years now. Since I got married. Actually, I got that perfume for my wedding and now it's the only perfume I use, so.
Interviewer
And then I overstay my welcome. As Bonnie continues with her hair and makeup, I ask to see some documents that detail her eye watering earnings. It should be as easy as opening her OnlyFans profile and showing me the dashboard that measures how much money has come in this month. Right. With the OnlyFans, you were telling me that it's about, you know, on average like a million a month.
Bonnie Blue
Yeah.
Interviewer
Are you able to open your. Your own events and tell me what it looks like? Like, does it have the figure there about how much you've made in the past month?
Bonnie Blue
Yeah, it does.
Interviewer
Can you like. Pardon? Apparently that's exposing a little too much. She demands the microphones be switched off. Am I. What?
Bonnie Blue
On record? Am I on record now?
Interviewer
Oh, yeah. But do I need to. Do you want me to turn it off? Yeah, let's turn it off. Next time on Sex, Lies and Streaming, the Oscars of porn. Where dreams are made and egos are shattered.
Bonnie Blue
Thanks for your boners, fanboys.
Interviewer
Every major adult star on the planet descends on the Las Vegas desert for the industry's biggest night. But one seat remains conspicuously empty. Bonnie Blue finally emerges from hiding, draped in a $45,000 Louis Vuitton gown, convinced she's about to claim her crown as the industry's reigning queen.
Bonnie Blue
I earn over £1,000 an hour. I'm the one with the most views. I'm the one that goes viral all the time.
Interviewer
But grand entrances can become desperate scrambles when you arrive just as the red carpet is being rolled away. In reality has other plans.
Bonnie Blue
Hi.
Interviewer
Oh, hi. You seem disappointed to see me.
Bonnie Blue
Always disappointed to see you.
Interviewer
Why? What happened inside? In the Nevada Desert Blue Fades to black. That's next time on Sex, Lies and Streaming. Thanks for listening. You can read more from me on news.com and find me on Facebook if you want to let me know your thoughts about this series. This show was written and hosted by me. My executive producer is Nina Young. Sound design and editing by Tiffany Dimac. Additional production assistance by Phoebe Zukowski Wallace. A big thanks to Kerry Warren, the editor of news.com for her support for the show.
Podcast: Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming
Episode: 5 – “The Dominoes Are Falling: Bonnie Blue's Code Red”
Date: November 2, 2025
Host: James Weir (news.com.au)
This episode delivers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at OnlyFans creator Bonnie Blue amid a personal and professional crisis. Initially, interviewer James Weir expects a story centered on Bonnie’s viral gang bang stunt; instead, he uncovers the inner turmoil and precariousness of the subscription porn industry, where viral fame can vanish overnight and creators are as dependent on opaque corporate platforms as any gig worker. As OnlyFans abruptly moves to ban her most lucrative and controversial content, Bonnie and her team scramble to salvage her business and persona. The episode explores the blurred line between real life and performance, the economics and human realities of the creator economy, and evolving attitudes around controversy, sex work, and fame.
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Creators may appear empowered and wealthy but are ultimately at the mercy of platform owners—a message illustrated viscerally by Bonnie’s panic over guideline changes.
Bonnie’s approach—embracing controversy, “flipping the script” on exploitative tropes, and monetizing condemnation—embodies a complex mix of empowerment, performance, and cynicism about modern digital fame.
Between messy reality and high-gloss social presence, the inner workings of subscription porn expose lingering stigmas, evolving attitudes, and economic realities few outsiders see.
This episode dispels the illusion of total control promised by the creator economy, revealing the backstage stress, relentless hustle, and human cost behind viral sex work fame. Bonnie Blue emerges as both a shrewd businesswoman and a target for the same structures of exploitation and precarity she once purported to transcend.
For more, follow James Weir’s reporting at news.com.au and stay tuned for the next episode: "The Oscars of Porn."