Bonnie Blue (actress)

Bonnie Blue
Blue in 2025
Born
Tia Billinger

1999 (age 26–27)
Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, England
OccupationPornographic film actress

Tia Billinger (born 1999), known professionally as Bonnie Blue, is an English sex worker. After attending 2023's schoolies week, she had sex with large numbers of students at both spring break in Cancún and freshers' week in Derby and Nottingham and went viral for discussing her sex life on GK Barry's podcast Saving Grace. She was criticised during this period for the age of her co-stars (as young as 18) and for comments that critics have described as promoting misogyny and the sexual objectification of women.

Blue had sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours on 12 January 2025, making her the subject of months of media attention and inspiring similar events by Lily Phillips, Annie Knight, and Drake Von. She was banned from OnlyFans in June after announcing and later cancelling an event in which she would be tied up naked inside a glass box with the goal of having sex with 2,000 men, following which she moved her content to Fansly. She then organised a freshers' week tour and claimed to have had unprotected sex with about 400 men in one day. Pornhub announced in December 2025 that Blue was the fourth most searched-for porn star that year.

Life and career

1999–2024: Early life and career beginnings

Blue was born Tia Billinger in 1999[1][2] in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire,[2] and grew up in nearby Draycott.[3] She attended Friesland School[4] and took part in the British street dance championships with her sister in 2015. Blue originally wanted to be a midwife but aborted the career during her A-levels after discovering that she was already earning the post's starting salary in Poundstretcher and as a dance teacher. She spent five years recruiting staff for finance roles in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and 18 months trying to conceive before marrying her partner at a registry office in February 2022 and moving with him to Australia's Gold Coast.[3] Towards the end of her two years there, she saw women on TikTok advertising camming services and decided to follow suit using the name "Bonnie Blue",[3] making $5,000 in her first week.[5] She then became an escort.[3]

Blue joined OnlyFans in May 2023.[6] Within a month, she had made £8,000 from her subscriptions.[2] She drifted apart from her husband around this time[3] and separated from him in November.[7] That month, she went to schoolies week with OnlyFans creators Leilani May and Kay Manuel with the intention of handing out business cards with QR codes to her OnlyFans account,[6][3] following which the Daily Mail ran a story calling her a sexual predator.[3] She then began recruiting men over the age of 18 to have sex with,[3][8] including 122 students at spring break in Cancún in March 2024 and 150 students at freshers' week in Derby and Nottingham in September 2024.[3][9][10] She was joined in Cancún and England by May and Lily Phillips[11][12] and promoted the events with a sign her mother had made saying "Bonk me and let me film it".[3]

On 23 October 2024, Blue appeared on Barry's Saving Grace podcast.[13] During her episode, she discussed her niche of having sex with university students, claimed to have had sex with their lecturers and married men, blamed women neglecting their sex lives for men's demand for her, and recounted an occasion in which she had sex with a student and then his father. A clip of the last of these went viral and was later deleted. Viewers accused Blue of misogyny, contributing towards sexual objectification of women, manipulating young men into performing sex on camera, and ignoring the long-term impact on such men. In interviews with The Tab and Cosmopolitan later that month, she stated that the criticism could be attributed to the podcast's female audience, that the backlash Barry received should have been directed at herself, that those complaining about the young age of her co-stars should instead lobby governments to increase the age of consent, and that her ex-husband still worked with her behind the scenes.[14][5] The episode also went viral shortly before Barry was announced for the twenty-fourth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.[13] Blue also discussed her sex life on Lottie Moss's Dream On podcast around this time.[14]

By early November, Blue had been the subject of sympathy from journalist Sophie Wilkinson and had told the Daily Star that men came to her because they were unsatisfied by their spouses and The Kyle and Jackie O Show that unsatisfied men had the right to do so.[5] Around this time, she and Annie Knight announced that they would attend that year's schoolies week and were looking for "barely legal 18-year-olds" to film porn with, sparking outrage and a successful Change.org petition to cancel Blue's travel visa.[15] The pair attempted then to film in Fiji, which led to the pair being deported.[16][17] Blue then debated with reality television personality Ashley James on the ITV daytime show This Morning over the promotion of her content.[18] The following month, after being edited to feature the logo of online casino Stake, a September 2024 clip of Blue outside Nottingham Trent University talking about having sex with lots of "barely legal 18-year-olds" went viral on Twitter, prompting anti-gambling campaigners to write to the UK's culture secretary to request censorship of the advert for using sex to promote gambling to young people.[19][20] The post, which had not been uploaded by an official Stake account but by an account claiming to be affiliated with the firm, was later deleted.[21]

2025–present: World record attempt and 1,000 and Me

Blue attempted to break the world record for the most sexual partners in one day on 12 January 2025,[19][14] when she had sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours.[22][23] The event followed pornographic film actress Lisa Sparxxx [simple] claiming to set a one-day record of 919 men in 2004 and Phillips going viral for the documentary I Slept With 100 Men In One Day.[a] Blue's co-stars were filmed in groups[24] and mostly wore balaclavas.[25] Footage of men queuing and one man being forcibly removed from the event by his mother went viral.[24] Following the event, widespread criticism was directed at Blue and then at the men,[26][14] with Blue becoming the subject of months of media attention[24][27] including an article in The Economist titled "Welcome to Bonnie Blue's Britain".[28] She stated repeatedly during this period that she did her job because she enjoyed it.[26][29] Victoria Smith of UnHerd accused Blue of selling "misogyny" and "dehumanisation", while Elle contrasted Blue and Phillips' "hypersexualisation" with the abstinence of the 4B movement and described both as "extreme responses" to the period's sexual culture.[26] Gareth Roberts of The Spectator compared Blue with manosphere influencer Andrew Tate and wrote that both were "encouraging, and revelling in, very bad male behaviours".[26] Critics of the men included Olivia Attwood, Katherine Ryan,[30] and several columnists who compared the men to the perpetrators in the Pelicot rape case.[30][26][31] The world record attempt inspired similar events by Phillips, Knight,[29][22] and Drake Von,[32] an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show by Issy Knowles,[33] and the song "Bonnie Blu" by Lil Mabu, who she dated in March 2025.[34]

Both Blue and Phillips implied that they were pregnant in February 2025[29] and staged their own arrests in May 2025.[35][36] Following the former, Blue stated she would use the income from the resulting media attention to pay for someone else's IVF.[37] She briefly sponsored Cornwall amateur football club Calstock F.C. in April 2025[38] and was making $2.1 million per month on OnlyFans by June.[39] That month, she announced and later cancelled an event in which she would be naked and tied up inside a glass box with the intention of having sex with 2,000 men.[27][3] The idea drew criticism from fellow OnlyFans creators including Sophie Rain[28][29] and prompted OnlyFans to ban Blue from the platform.[27][3] She then began posting content to the subscription-based OnlyFans alternative Fansly[39][3] and was a guest on Tate's Disruptors podcast.[3]

Channel 4 broadcast the documentary 1,000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story in late July,[27] which featured Victoria Silver following Blue around for six months[40] and chronicling her world record attempt, move from OnlyFans, recruitment of multiple young-looking female content creators in school uniforms for an orgy, and preparation to fly to Romania to film Disruptors.[41][23][42] Criticism was directed at the show for featuring footage of Blue having sex and at Silver for not adequately challenging Blue, with multiple firms withdrawing their adverts after broadcast and children's commissioner Rachel de Souza condemning the film for "glamorising and normalising" extreme pornography.[43] Ofcom declined to investigate after receiving 160 complaints.[44] Blue attempted to start a freshers' week tour in Dundee in September 2025 but had to move its launch to Glasgow following criticism from the University of Dundee's Feminist Society and multiple politicians including East Kilbride and Strathaven's MP Joani Reid.[45][46] She was also criticised by a local councillor for visiting Oxford[47] and assaulted during her visit to Sheffield;[48][49] the latter was dealt with out of court.[50]

Blue had appeared on the podcasts Fin vs The Internet and Modern Wisdom by October[51][52] and was announced by Pornhub in December 2025 as the fourth most searched for porn star that year.[53] That month, while visiting the Indonesian island of Bali, she and at least 17 men were arrested on suspicion of producing pornography, following which she was deported for working on a tourist visa and fined Rp 200,000 (about £9) for traffic violations.[54][55] Upon her return to London, she filmed footage of herself outside the Indonesian embassy in the United Kingdom dragging an Indonesian flag behind her on the floor, prompting criticism from Indonesia's government.[55] On 7 February 2026,[56] she claimed to have had unprotected sex with about 400 men in one day[57] and to be pregnant.[58] The latter caused fans to tag a Twitter account that parodied The Maury Show, a show which explored paternity disputes, which in turn went viral after asking them not to.[59] By March 2026, Zoe Strimpel's book Good Slut had described both Blue and Phillips as examples of the idea that sex work is work and Blue as "ruthlessly savvy" and "well endowed with self respect".[60]

Personal life and artistry

The Derby Telegraph wrote in January 2025 that Blue was a regular at Derby County F.C. games.[4] She is cisgender, although a hoax tweet claiming otherwise featuring a photoshopped Wikipedia article went viral in June 2025; PinkNews attributed some of the confusion to coverage of trans OnlyFans creator Kay Manuel, who had been dubbed the "Australian Bonnie Blue" by tabloids after claiming to have had sex with large numbers of school leavers.[1] In a December 2025 opinion piece for The Spectator, Blue endorsed Nigel Farage and the tax and immigration policies of his party Reform UK.[61] She has stated that she was inspired to enter the porn industry by the wide range of shapes, sizes, and backgrounds of women she saw camming on TikTok, having lost confidence and gained weight whilst resident in Australia due to living among large numbers of influencers.[3] In July 2025, Lucy Morgan of Glamour wrote that her content used "much of the same language as mainstream porn" and Janice Turner of The Times wrote that Blue's porn was unusual for her not attempting to fake orgasms;[3][40] Blue attributed the latter to her attention being on other aspects of filming.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ According to Cosmopolitan, previous world record figures were likely inflated, and Sparxxx's event only hosted 150 men.[24]

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