Bonnie Blue lived a very different life before building her controversial sex empire.
The OnlyFans star whose real name is Tia Billinger, grew up in a middle-class upbringing in Nottingham and the 25-year-old had a very normal job before embarking on her career as a sex worker.
With aspirations of one day becoming a midwife, the 25-year-old is said to rake in around £600,000 a month thanks to her explicit content which she started out of a desire to quit her regular 9-5.
A recruitment consultant by trade, Bonnie settled down and married at an early age, but soon realised the conventional life wasn’t for her after all. In 2021 moved from Nottignham to Australia and ended her marriage. But her mum and ex-husband work with her behind the scenes and apparently have no issue with her new line of work.
On the Dream On podcast, Bonnie told Lottie Moss: “I was bored of living in the 9 to 5, so [thought] I’m gonna give this a go.” It’s proved to be a successful yet drastic career move, as Bonnie made £3 million in 2024, according to Cosmopolitan.
Before kickstarting her Onlyfans career, Bonnie’s life was perfectly ‘comfortable’ and grew up “quiet and reserved”, choosing countryside walks over partying and drinking. She was a pupil at Friesland School in the Derbyshire village of Sandiacre, with former classmates remembering her as a popular girl who had hopes of becoming a dancer or even a midwife. “I was completely gob-smacked when I saw her all over the media this week,” one ex-pupil told the Mail.
When she was 15, she began dating private schoolboy Oliver Davidson, a talented swimmer and rugby player, and the son of a well-off local businessman. He was a pupil at Trent College, a private day and boarding school in Nottingham where fees can reach £45,000 a year.
After leaving school, she found work in recruitment, first at the Sellick Partnership in Derby before moving in 2018 to another firm in Nottingham. She set up home with Olli in a £250,000 semi-detached house in Stapleford near Nottingham, bought with financial support from her boyfriend’s parents.
The couple eventually married in February 2022 in Westminster, before moving to the Gold Coast in Australia where she started a recruitment job. But wanting to move away from a typical 9-5 lifestyle, she became a ‘cam girl’ having seen videos on TikTok of young women doing the same thing.
But it was her partner who had given her the confidence to enter the adult entertainment industry. She said: “At the time, neither of us wanted to work Monday to Friday. We wanted more out of life. We knew continuing to do our jobs, doing the same, you’re not going to change.’ Heartbreakingly, Bonnie believed she was ‘not pretty enough’ and ‘people wouldn’t want to watch me,’ but Olli told her: ‘No, you’re beautiful. Do it’.”
Soon, she was making £5,000 a week but her relationship eventually fell apart, with the couple splitting up after nearly a decade together. Now her OnlyFans career has skyrocketed. She claimed to have bedded 158 university students during Nottingham Trent University’s freshers week in September, and now alleges to have slept with 1,057 men in 12 hours this month.
She now travels the world filming her adult content with the help of her mum who ‘recruits’ men for her, but it’s not come without controversy. Openly bragging about sleeping with ‘hundreds’ of uni students, Bonnie came under fire for saying that she purposely targets consenting “barely legal” men, to help educate them about sex, while also filming herself having sex with them.
The star was branded a “predator” by some critics as they questioned whether the young men taking part fully understood the potential consequences of their digital footprint. She was reportedly banned from Fiji and Australia over visa concerns.
Bonnie says her family and former partner have no issue with her career, adding they are “so proud” of her. But it appears not everyone has been so understanding and she has found herself having to explain her chosen path to those who knew her before her OnlyFans journey.
Bonnie told Yahoo! Lifestyle: “There’s been a lot of judgment and jealousy. I had an old friend come up to me and say that I have no respect for myself and don’t deserve any in return, and another close friend tells me how her friends think she shouldn’t be friends with me anymore.
“I don’t mind, they are judging me for having a million-dollar business whilst they live with their parents and have to work for someone else.” Bonnie has been able to count on her family for support, with Bonnie revealing that they’re her biggest fans. She shared: “My family is so proud of me, my dad loved it when I had someone come up and ask me for a photo the other day! They’ve even asked to be in my TikToks. I’ve recommended this job to many family members on this trip!”
She has appeared on a number of podcast platforms, including GK Barry’s Saving Grace podcast, which has now been wiped off the internet. On one podcast show, she was joined by her mum, Sarah, who expressed her pride in her daughter’s career – and is now even helping her efforts.
Speaking on The Reality Check podcast, Sarah said she found out about Bonnie’s raunchy career after seeing a leaked video. She said: “I was gutted at first, I really was. It was just a shock, because… it was something I never thought she would do.”
Now allegedly becoming a millionaire from her work, Bonnie spends her profits on her family and takes them away on holidays and treats them to gifts – which Sarah says is only a bonus to her daughter’s happiness.
“We’ve had nice holidays and nice gifts but that doesn’t bother me. She’s happy, so I’m happy because she’s happy,” Sarah explained. As well as rooting for her daughter in the shadows, Sarah also helps Bonnie to actively recruit young men. She has been seen handing out flyers and condoms to students during Freshers Week.
Sarah has been seen painting signs for Bonnie to hold up at universities, including one that read, ‘Uni students bonk me and let me film it’ at Nottingham University. Speaking to the Daily Star, Bonnie said: “My mum is like no other mum. She just wants her daughter to be happy in life which is why she supports me… it makes me happy.”
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