‘1,000 Men and Me' review: Bonnie Blue documentary is a grim, grubby and superficial spectacle

Irish Independent

29-07-2025

If you had no idea before this week who Bonnie Blue was, you probably do now, given the level of outrage Victoria Silver's documentary generated even before it was broadcast.
Not that Blue, a 26-year-old porn star (real name Tia Billinger), is bothered by outrage; she loves it. It's just more grist to the porn money mill that's apparently made her a multimillionaire.
Rage-bait, winding people up, is part of her strategy. 'A lot of the time, I push into the hate,' she says. 'I'm happy to piss off women because they're not my target audience.'
Blue's shock-in-trade is organising ever more sleazy, outrageous stunts, then posting the videos on OnlyFans.
Silver's superficial documentary follows Blue – whose antics got her kicked out of Australia – as she organises her latest porn extravaganza: having sex with 1,000 random men (the total ends up being 1,057) in 12 hours in an upstairs room in London.
She prefers young men of 18, although the invitation to have sex with her is open to anyone from 'the barely legal to the barely breathing'. She doesn't charge for the privilege – her money comes from OnlyFans subscriptions.
For the men, the reward is getting to have sex with their masturbatory fantasy made flesh.
Blue claims she's giving something back to the fans who support her. 'I'm basically a community worker,' she says.
She has a team behind her: Emma, her publicist, Ermez, her personal stylist, and Josh, her 'live-in videographer'. Josh is the one who organises the paraphernalia for the 1,000-men gangbang: 1,600 condoms, 50 balaclavas (for the camera-shy participants) and 20 tubes of KY Jelly.
There's only one rule – 'no backdoor stuff' (I don't think I need to spell out what that means). The line of men snakes down the stairs and out the door. It's a dispiriting sight to behold.
We see just enough brief, rapid-fire clips of the grubby spectacle to have the late Mary Whitehouse spinning like a top in her grave.
When it's all over, Blue does a 'snow angel' on a floor littered with hundreds of sticky condoms.
She bears a resemblance to a young Katie Price, before all the plastic surgery. She has a similarly dead-eyed stare, dreary monotone voice, icy personality, and trots out the familiar guff about porn empowering women rather than demeaning them.
She bats away suggestions that what she does could have negative consequences for the young men who watch her online, and the young women emulating her.
Later, we see her persuading younger OnlyFans content creators, all of them over 18, but some looking much younger than that, to join in a hardcore porn video with a group of men.
A better, more rigorous filmmaker than Silver might have, pardon the expression, penetrated Blue's facade and probed deeper. Then again, maybe there's nothing worth probing.
'Everyone says that my brain works different (sic),' she says. 'I'm just not emotional.' That certainly seems to be true. She comes across as a blank, a void.
All there seems to be to her is the greed for wealth and hunger for dubious fame.
'My goal is to make five million a month and be the biggest porn star in the world,' she says.
Sarah is on the payroll, as are Blue's father, grandmother and several other members of the family
Silver talks to Blue's mother, Sarah, who says she was shocked by what her daughter was doing at first, but now she 'wouldn't have her doing anything else'.
You can understand why. Sarah is on the payroll, as are Blue's father, grandmother and several other members of the family.
Blue's bid for porn-world domination takes a knock when OnlyFans refuses to carry the 1,000-men content because the men aren't content creators.
Another planned stunt, a 'petting zoo' with Blue tied up naked in a glass case and letting random men do anything they want to her, doesn't happen, but it's enough to get her banned permanently from OnlyFans.
When Blue announces she's going to Romania to be on Andrew Tate's show, Silver decides it's time to turn the camera off.
You might want to turn the TV off before it gets to that point.
Rating: One star