Love her or hate her, Bonnie Blue sure knows how to generate headlines.
The adult content creator, who shot to infamy on OnlyFans, is now appearing on Channel 4 as part of a new documentary about her life. Titled 1,000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story, it’s an exploration of her day-to-day life, which includes the sex stunt that made headlines earlier this year, when she claimed to have slept with a thousand men in a single day.
During the show, we follow Bonnie (real name Tia Billinger) as she goes about her daily life, taking part in ever-more extreme stunts in a bid for online attention.
“Everyone has sex, just some of us film it,” she says at one point. Much of the rest of the show continues in that same vein. Here’s what we learned:
She’s lonely
Bonnie Blue/Tia’s antics have made her wildly wealthy, but it’s come at the cost of a lot of controversy. The documentary shows us some of the online comments she’s been receiving, and towards the end of the hour, we find out that it’s had a serious impact on Bonnie’s social life.
“The last time I went out by myself was probably about six months ago,” she tells the camera. “I don’t know it’s that safe if I was to go out by myself,” to which her videographer and right-hand man Josh says that he thinks the last time she did so was just before he was hired. With Bonnie getting a divorce from her husband, Ollie (who pops up earlier in the doc), it certainly looks as though the people she spends the most time with are her team.
“I get hundreds of death threats a day,” she adds. “It takes one bad thing to happen and then I’d be like, f***, I shouldn’t have gone out by myself, so I’m just trying to prevent that.”
She would sleep with Andrew Tate
Bonnie made headlines for the wrong reasons when she appeared on a podcast with Andrew Tate a few months ago and had a picture taken with him. The interview is announced at the very end of the documentary and introduced as something she’s “excited” about, though we don’t see it actually happen.
“I’ve got no idea how it’s going to go… he’s probably just as controversial as I am,” she says. “People either love him or hate him, he’s a marketing genius.”
Having been banned from OnlyFans a few months before, she has just switched to using Fansly: a similar adult content website. This interview, she says, is to promote her new platform, and she “will get a billion views” from doing it.
When asked by the interviewer if she’s worried about aligning her own image with Tate’s notoriously anti-feminist and abusive one, she deflects the question.
“Piers Morgan interviews serial killers all the time. It’s not messed up his brand. Just because you interview someone doesn’t mean you’re that person,” she says. “He’s been labelled multiple things by the media and so have I. We’re probably the two most misunderstood people out there at the moment.”
Then, the kicker: would she have sex with him? “Yeah, I’d f*** Andrew Tate,” she says.
She earned a million pounds from her ‘1,000 men’ stunt
We find out that a lot of Bonnie’s drive comes from her ‘businesslike’ mindset: she’s always talking about how much she’s earning. “What helps soothe her mind is if business is going well,” her videographer Josh says at one point. When the documentary starts filming in 2024, she’s making £500k a month on OnlyFans.
When she announces her stunt to sleep with 1,000 men – with the intention of driving people to her profile, to pay to view the content in full – she explains that she thinks she’ll make £500k off that alone.
“This month I’ve just hit over a million pounds, so I wasn’t expecting to earn over £1m until March,” Bonnie tells us afterwards. “So I guess we’re above target… I’m nearly at a world record for having the most successful OnlyFans.” And just before she’s banned from the platform, we’re told, she’s been making £2m a month.
Sex tapes with the public make her the most money
A lot of the documentary follows Bonnie as she goes about setting up various shocking stunts – but we also get an insight into how she came up with her own take on content creation in the first place.
“I knew I needed to be different because there are two million creators on OnlyFans, I needed a USP,” she says at one point. “Making content with 18 year olds and virgins, people that [were] very new to sex, that felt like the right move for me.”
Later on, she calls what she does “groundbreaking for porn because it’s realistic, it’s relatable, my subscribers can go, ‘My dick looks like that, my body looks like that, I last 9 seconds as well.’”
Halfway through, OnlyFans starts banning the content she’s uploading with ‘non-professionals’ – that is, people who aren’t already content creators – and she isn’t pleased.
“The porn I make with real people is so much more satisfying… people prefer the more amateur content that is really real, as opposed to the professional filmed [stuff].” She also says the amateur content is what makes her the most money by far.
Her family are supportive of what she does
Despite what you might think, Bonnie’s family (her mum appears in the show) are supportive of her career.
“Would it be something that I chose for her to do, no,” her mum says. “I was really really shocked, but now would I want her doing anything else? No, not at all. All you want is for your kids to be happy and she is happy.”
We find out Bonnie’s notoriety hasn’t gone unnoticed though: her mum has been getting comments from neighbours and people at the local gym about her daughter’s career.
“People now think it’s okay to [say] nasty comments and most of the time I just laugh, because if you could earn £1 million in a month your morals would soon change and you’d get your bits out,” she says at one point. They’re benefitting financially, too: Bonnie has put her family on her own payroll so that they can give up their day jobs.
At one point, Bonnie also offers a rather grim view into her home life. “My mum said, every time I come in this house it’s just dildos everywhere,” she says at one point.
“It was funny because for New Year’s Eve, my family came over and I was in the living room filming. They all had to be really really quiet and they were like, ‘When can I put the music on? And I was in the living room just f***ing myself and they had to wait in silence next door.”
She was in finance recruitment for the NHS
During the show, we get a brief glimpse into Bonnie’s past life. Her mother talks about her liking arts and crafts and her dancing career – which she started aged three or four. She also started working in sales.
“It was the same day in day out, repetitive calls, and I was like, is this what I’m going to do for the rest of my life?” she says at one point. “People would look at me and think, ‘Oh wow, she must be so happy in life, she’s got a house, a fancy job,’ and I was just like it’s boring, surely there’s more to life than this.”
She has no regrets
Throughout the show, Bonnie is defiant about what she does.
“I always say I want to pleasure men,” she says at one point. “But this is what I enjoy… this is not for everybody… I’m a millionaire, I’m a woman, I’m independent, I use my body to empower me.”
She also pushes back against ideas that she’s teaching young men and women the wrong lessons about sex and porn. “I’m the one who sexualises myself… I’m the one who takes control,” she says at one point. “I don’t really think it’s that bad, I don’t see why I shouldn’t.”
As she puts it, she has “millions in her back account” and gets to travel all over the world. She’s also ambitious: her publicist Emma says that Bonnie once told her, “you don’t understand. I’m going to be the biggest client you’ve ever seen, I’m going to be the biggest name in porn ever.”
She has 20-30 social media accounts
Social media is one of the main ways in which Bonnie drums up business, spreading clips of her stunts online in a bid to get people to pay for the content on OnlyFans (and now Fansly).
But as she tells the camera, she doesn’t just have the one account, she’s got 20-30 different ones. “I have to have so many because they get reported all the time,” she says, “So instead of having just 1-2 accounts I’ve got back ups and back ups and back ups.”
She says her brain ‘works different’
Throughout the show, we’re told that Bonnie treats what she does “as a physical challenge.”
“Had a doughnut, had water, I’m hydrated,” she says at one point, halfway through her marathon sex challenge. “With each person I’m like, am I okay physically? Mentally am I okay? Am I still enjoying it? And as long as I am, I just keep those numbers going up.”
Later on, she also addresses speculation around her own mental health and why she does what she does. “Everyone says my brain works different,” she says. “I’m just not emotional. I can control my emotions. If I don’t want to be upset then I won’t be upset, but no, I don’t think I’m going to need therapy.”
She goes onto say that she doesn’t have PTSD, or trauma, “there’s no hidden reason of why I do what I do.” Except that she, apparently, enjoys it.
She’s not popular in the porn industry
When Bonnie attends an awards ceremony for content creators, it’s apparent that she’s not exactly popular among her contemporaries. That’s mostly for her business strategy, which involves sleeping with “barely legal” teenagers – and not charging people for it.
“Some people in the OnlyFans industry and porn stars were frustrated that I was suddenly letting people sleep with me for free,” she says. “This other content creator reached out and said, ‘What I think you’re doing is disgusting. I can’t believe you’re sleeping with strangers and random people.’”
Later on, we do see her filming content with other, younger OnlyFans creators, many of whom are young women. They, by contrast, are keen to take part – though they’re not being paid, they say that even being tagged in her posts will get them thousands of new followers.
1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story is streaming on Channel 4 now
