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Daily Mail
34 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The Bonnie Blue Story takes shock content to a depressing new level, writes CLAUDIA CONNELL. Even more worryingly, this documentary just doesn't ring true…
I've watched some depressingly grim content from Channel 4 in recent months. There was Open House: The Great Sex Experiment, showing couples checking in to a swinger's retreat to 'test' their relationships. More recently came Virgin Island, where a group of shy virgins were deflowered by sex surrogates. Naturally, both were dressed up as important social experiments. But the documentary 1000 Men and Me takes the broadcaster's shock content to a depressing new level. So disturbing is it to witness the behind-the-scenes story of porn star Bonnie Blue - and her desire to become rich and famous by being violated in the most humiliating way imaginable - that as the viewer you come away feeling tainted and grubby. Filmed over six months the documentary follows Blue, 26, real name Tia Billinger, in the build-up to her sickening 1000 man sex stunt, and the fallout that follows. From the opening scenes to the very end, Blue is adamant that she enjoys what she does and that her work is 'empowering'. Most viewers, like me, will find the first claim unconvincing and the second laughably ridiculous. She tells the documentary director Victoria Silver that her sexual antics make her no different to an endurance athlete – she is merely pushing her body to extremes. But rather that train for years to run a marathon, win a medal and be the source of national pride, her endurance involves sleeping with strangers. Her niche as a porn star is having sex with ordinary Joes – 'relatable' guys with beer guts and performance issues. These 'dads, husbands, students and barely legal teens' are invited to avail themselves of her body free of charge as long as they consent to her monetising the content via the video sharing platform OnlyFans. Viewers get to see some of these 1000 men in bleak footage where, dressed in just their socks, they're shown queuing on the stairs for the chance to have 40 seconds of sex with Blue. But things went wrong earlier this year when OnlyFans refused to host Blue's 1000 men stunt, then booted her off the site altogether. Director Silver narrates the programme and her reasons for making it are perfectly valid. She was concerned that her 15 year old daughter knew who Bonnie Blue was having watched some of the 200-a-day (non-porn) videos she releases across social media. Blue has been accused of preying on young people, but she is never properly tackled on the issue in the film. Instead, she's simply allowed to wriggle off the hook by claiming that what kids watch online is down to the parents, not her. The documentary makes a lame attempt at injecting morality, courtesy of a series of pop ups showing various social media pundits expressing their outrage. But it's hollow and meaningless when so much of the film is dedicated to showing unnecessarily explicit footage of Blue's work. Throughout, her message to appalled feminists is 'you fought for women's rights, for us to have control our body and be empowered by that and I'm living by that'. Possibly one of the most upsetting scenes comes after she completes a 100-man orgy with male porn performers, where we see her being treated roughly and slapped. Her videographer Josh says, 'she basically got beat up for a few hours'. I wanted to hear how Blue could explain that away as being 'empowering', but the documentary didn't go there. Blue is clearly intelligent and since she says she earned £2million a month from her content, you can't deny her business acumen either. Yet she is also curiously vacant and detached when talking about her work. There's nothing behind her eyes as she speaks in a monotone about how she loves to 'rage bait' women by suggesting their husband would rather have sex with her. Viewers get to see some of these 1000 men in bleak footage where, dressed in just their socks, they're shown queuing on the stairs for the chance to have 40 seconds of sex with Blue Everyone featured (including her mother who, astonishingly, is on her daughter's payroll) is at pains to point out that Blue is in control, she's not abused, not traumatised and not in need of therapy. It doesn't ring true. Blue reveals she was sexually active at 13 and 'probably looking at porn' prior to that. We learn that her now ex-husband Ollie – who was in no way her pimp, she says – first encouraged her into the adult entertainment world. None of this is normal but it's brushed over. Instead, the footage of Blue being slapped and used by dozens of men is interspersed with shots of her doing jigsaws and making mosaics, all clumsily contrived to show her 'wholesome' side. Not only did I come away feeling grubby, I got the distinct feeling there's another Bonnie Blue documentary to be made – a far more truthful one that we'll probably only see in five years' time when the appetite for her content has ceased - and true toll of her 'work' is finally revealed. 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue story is available on Channel 4.
CBS News
2 hours ago
- CBS News
Body of missing Ohio man found at West Virginia park
The body of a missing Canton, Ohio, man was found in Mountwood Park in West Virginia over the weekend. In a post on Facebook, the Wood County Sheriff's Office said Chad Polen's body was found in the area of Mountwood Park on Sunday. The 48-year-old man had been missing since June 19. No foul play is suspected, law enforcement said in the Facebook post. The sheriff's office said in a Facebook post from July 1 that Polen's vehicle was found in Mountwood Park's volleyball area. The vehicle, a Blue Honda Accord with an Ohio registration plate, had been abandoned for days. "We would like to thank all the search teams, local volunteer fire agencies, volunteers, and the Natural Resources Police for the hard work and organization that led to his recovery," the Wood County Sheriff's Office said in Sunday's Facebook post. "We want to express our sincere condolences to Mr. Polen's family." The West Virginia Natural Resources Police and search teams from West Virginia and Ohio participated in Sunday's search, authorities said.
The Independent
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Bonnie Blue's husband breaks silence in first TV interview on OnlyFans creator
Bonnie Blue 's husband has spoken out for the first time about the adult content creator in a new documentary. The 26-year-old adult content creator, real name Tia Billinger, is the subject of Channel 4 's 1,000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story, which follows her rise to global infamy, broadcast on Tuesday (29 July). Blue says she and her husband, Ollie, met when they were 14 or 15 and separated in 2023. "She really connects with the fans... She's completely changed the game," Ollie said of Blue. In a two-star review for The Independent, Olivia Petter dubbed The Bonnie Blue Story 'sad, uncomfortable and prurient viewing'.
Irish Independent
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘1,000 Men and Me' review: Bonnie Blue documentary is a grim, grubby and superficial spectacle
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
Daily Mail
11 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Dave Portnoy launches fundraiser for slain NYC cop killed by Shane Tamura with emotional message
Barstool boss Dave Portnoy has launched a fundraiser for the New York City police officer that was killed by Shane Tamura during Monday night's mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan. Didarul Islam was one of the victims of the horrific act, as the Bangladeshi immigrant lived in The Bronx and was a father of two, with a third on the way. He had been with the NYC police department for four years. Portnoy's emotional social media message states he will match any proceeds Barstool makes from its 'Back The Blue' gear and donate it to the Islam family. Added to the 'Back The Blue' design in the aftermath of the mass shooting is Islam's name and precinct on the right sleeve. 'Another tragic story that hits very close to home,' Portnoy said. 'Not only is Barstool's HQ in NYC but this attack occurred in the same office the Brady 4 held our protest.' 'It's never good having to do these charity drives but Officer Didarul Islam leaves behind 2 boys and an 8 months pregnant wife. I will personally match all proceeds we make this week and donate directly to the family.' Barstool's headquarters are located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in between 28th and 29th Streets alongside Seventh Avenue. That's around 20 blocks and a few avenues west of where the mass shooting took place at 345 Park Avenue. Portnoy also mentions the 'Brady 4', composed of himself, John Feitelberg, Hank Lockwood, and Paul Gulczynski, who all worked for Barstool in 2015 when they handcuffed themselves together in the lobby of of NFL headquarters to protest the suspension of Tom Brady for Deflategate. The quartet were arrested in their Brady jerseys and were in prison overnight and faced criminal trespassing charges. Earlier this year, Portnoy put out a video recognizing the 10-year anniversary of the protest, including a clip of him shoving a security guard. Authorities have identified Tamura, a 27-year-old licensed private investigator from Las Vegas who once dreamed of a life in football, as the shooter who carried out the deadly rampage in the heart of New York City on Monday night. Tamura walked into the lobby at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and sprayed a long-form M4 rifle before heading to the offices of Rudin Management on the 33rd floor and continuing the terrifying spree. He then took his own life, police have confirmed. On Tuesday morning, New York City mayor Eric Adams said Tamura was targeting NFL headquarters but went to the wrong elevator bank as part of the terrible act.
