Adult star Bonnie Blue‘s documentary 1,000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story aired on Channel 4 in the UK on Tuesday, July 29 — and the public is voicing their frustration with the explicit content.
According to a synopsis, the controversial film dives into the 26-year-old former OnlyFans star’s claim that she slept with 1057 men in 12 hours, questioning if she was “dangerously pandering to male fantasies or being an empowered sex-positive entrepreneur.”
After the premiere, viewers took to X to voice their anger that Blue — whose real name is Tia Billinger — got a documentary on a major TV network.
“So Bonnie Blue gets a documentary on channel 4 where she can promote and glamorise her lifestyle for the kids watching at home but we need IDs to see posts on X because ‘we need to protect the kids,’” one viewer commented.
“Why on earth are channel 4 giving any airtime to freaks that marginalise and fuel misogyny against women such as bonnie blue????” a second viewer questioned.
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“It was tempting doc fodder, but did anyone conisder [sic] that it implicitly glamorises, even normalises porn for young people?” someone else wrote. “No wonder advertisers are distancing themselves…”
“Bonnie Blue’s doc on channel 4 has made me physically sick,” a fourth person penned.
Channel 4 responded to the backlash in a statement to LADbible.
“The explicit content in the documentary is editorially justified and provides essential context; making pornographic content is Bonnie’s job, and this film is about her work and the response to it,” the broadcaster told the media platform in an article published on Wednesday, July 30.
“Crucially, the content is presented in a non-gratuitous manner and viewers will be alerted to the sexual content in a programme warning at the start to ensure they understand from the outset the nature of the programme,” the statement continued.
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“The programme was broadcast after watershed and is compliant with the Ofcom broadcasting code,” the statement concluded, referring to the time of day in the UK after which programming deemed suitable for adults is allowed.
Criticism is also not new to Blue. She was previously a content creator on OnlyFans but was permanently banned from the platform in June after she announced her “petting zoo” stunt, where she was planning on being tied naked to a glass box to sleep with 2,000 men.
In June, Blue spoke to Us Weekly about the ban and the stunt.
“It ended up becoming so negative because I had to cancel it then I was like, ‘No, it’s back on.’ Then I had to remove content of it and it just felt like I went so backwards and forwards with it,” she told the outlet. “However, I do want to continue events. I do want to continue sleeping with the public.”