Sad, prurient documentary fails to reach the true Blue

Uncomfortable Channel 4 film, which follows OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue for six months, never gets to the bottom of what motivates her extreme sex stunts

- Olivia Petter

“Everyone has sex; just some of us film it,” is the phrase Bonnie Blue chooses to introduce her Channel 4 documentary.

It’s a suitably glib start to the hour-long film, 1,000 Men and Me: TheBonnie Blue Story, which charts the controversial OnlyFans star’s rise to global infamy.

Aged 26, Blue, whose real name is Tia Billinger, is best known for staging extreme sex stunts; in January, she claimed to have slept with 1,057 men in 12 hours, filming it all for her OnlyFans account, which has since been disabled after the platform banned her.

It’s hard to know where to begin with Blue, who earns upwards of £1.5m per month from her videos, which she now shares on Fansly, another subscription-based social platform. Perhaps with the sheer impossibility of her so-called 1,000-men challenge, which would amount to 41 seconds per man, without accounting for the time it takes to change between them.

Then there’s the footage itself, much of which features in the film, showing a fully naked Blue surrounded by penises penetrating her mouth and vagina. Or there’s her litany of rage-bait TikTok videos, in which she urges “barely legal or barely breathing” men to have sex with her, often at the expense of their wives and girlfriends, who Blue happily lambasts as sexually inferior.

Born and raised in the Derbyshire village of Draycott, Blue, according to the film, had a loving, normal childhood complete with dance competitions, a sister she performed with, and parents who were together. All of them are on her payroll.