Long before she was Australia’s most controversial sex worker filming with Schoolies, she was a 9-to-5 worker in recruitment, with a stable and supportive family life and happy relationship.

The British expat grew up in UK city Derby making the move to Australia with her then partner in 2021.

But there was something lacking.

Unhappy with the daily grind and “s--ty” wage, the then 24-year-old said it was freedom she was craving.

In what she called an amicable split with her partner, the young woman who had never known what it was to be with anyone else decided it was the adult industry that would provide her with the finical freedom she was desperate for.

“I wanted to be able to work my own hours, go to the beach during the day – I wanted choice,” she said.

In the first weeks of her introduction to porn and OnlyFans – a platform used to monetise content by having subscribers pay to watch it – Ms Blue had a video leaked to her parents via Facebook.

“I wasn’t expecting it. I’m in Australia and they’re in the UK. I know stuff gets out but I wanted to be able to tell them in my own time,” she said.

“At the start, mum thought I’d been forced into it. She was worried I needed money and was in a difficult situation. I explained to her if I stayed in recruitment, I would have been doing that up until I retired. That I wanted to be able to invest and have flexibility in life.

“I said me doing this is worth the judgment to potentially have a dream lifestyle. Once she and my dad understood that, they were fully on board.”

Ms Blue said it was tough for a few weeks, rejecting their calls for a fortnight until she was able to come to terms with their knowing.

“It’s not nice having your family judge you, but I knew they would understand when they knew how happy I was, that I wasn’t forced into it, and knew I was safe,” she said.

The now 25-year-old said the new job gave her a sense of empowerment – making her feel safer and more in control than she had in her previous work.

“I used to have guys being inappropriate to me all the time in recruitment, but they were my managers, I didn’t have a leg to stand on and never felt like I could say anything,” she said.

“Whereas now I’m in an industry where if someone crosses the line with me, it’s my own business.”

Ms Blue made international headlines last year when she took her adult content to the streets of Schoolies 2023 in Surfers Paradise.

In an attempt to gain popularity and make “real life content” Ms Blue along with two other adult industry players asked for Schoolies celebrating graduation to film X-rated scenes for use on their OnlyFans platforms.

The call out for Schoolies sex partners by Ms Blue – who lived in the Hilton Surfers Paradise in the midst of the Schoolies party zone at the time – sparked outrage with various critics calling it “disgusting”.

At the time the State Member for party suburb Surfers Paradise John-Paul Langbroek said “it’s a very sad thing” to see OnlyFans content creators targeting teen Schoolie males for explicit scenes.

Mr Langbroek said while participating Schoolies may be of legal age, long-term consequences needed to be raised.

Bond University Head of School (Psychology) Dr Ahmed Moustafa weighed in, saying while the OnlyFans creators “probably know what they’re doing legally” the prefrontal cortex – the part of the brain that controls risk taking behaviour – of the Schoolies in question was not fully developed.

She responded by saying “we’re not predators”, the teens were consenting adults and no one was breaking any laws adding if people had an issue with what she was doing they had an issue with the law, not her. Releasing 32 videos from the Schoolies period, Ms Blue said she generated an influx of subscribers and income.

“I was more nervous than the Schoolies. I’d only worked with established content creators, and I was letting these random groups of boys into my hotel room. Like, what am I doing? Is this video even gonna sell? What if they’re not respectful? Like, I had no idea how it was gonna go. Now it’s just fun. Nerves are gone.”

Following Schoolies she took to America’s equivalent Spring Break in Cancun, Mexico where she says she filmed with 122 college students across two weeks. Her original goal had been 100.

“I thought it was going to be difficult but as soon as I got there, because of social media, everyone was already aware of what my plan was,” she said.

“From day one I was able to get videos in, and everyone loved it. One of my videos had 17 people in it. Everyone that I film with – it’s their choice and they approach me.”

Ms Blue said she received no backlash from hotel staff or Mexican authorities during her Cancun stay.

“The hotel was perfect for Spring Break – it was disgusting. My hotel room wasn’t cleaned once in two weeks, and you can imagine the amount of fluids that was on my bed,” she said.

“I woke up one morning I had a condom stuck to my face. Under my pillow were condoms. They were just flung and forgotten about, and they were just building up in the room, like it was disgusting – rookie error – next year I’ll be booking a hotel purely for filming and one for sleeping.”

After the States Ms Blue went back home to the UK to see family and film “real” content.

Taking to the streets with a sign that said “Bonk me for free and let me film it”, the controversial star said she received both takers and abuse.

“I went on London Bridge with the sign which my mum actually wrote for me – she’s better at arts and crafts – and I just walked around to with it. If people wanted to film, my apartment was nearby,” she said.

“There was times big groups would come up to you – the guys loved it but a lot of the hate came from women.

“I was never scared, but it is intimidating when people are walking towards you, shouting at you, giving you hate, but people judge you no matter what. When I was doing it I just thought, ‘They’re going to judge me, they’re going to comment but they’re going to continue with my day, and I’m going to continue with mine, and be rich at the end of it.’”

She said the abuse paid off – filming with many takers including eight construction workers on the building site.

“They wolf whistled so I went up to them to see if they were interested. The next day I made a packed lunch, came back and filmed it,” she said.

“When people think of sex workers, they think you need to be dirty, disgusting, that you can’t be classy. But we all have sex - just I happen to post videos. I’m sure there was someone that sucked a c--k under the President’s desk – we all do it. I just post it and make money from it.”

Ms Blue said “as an average girl from the Gold Coast” she never anticipated the income she could make, claiming never in her wildest dreams did she imagine gaining financial success from the adult industry.

“I thought why would anyone subscribe - how can I make money when so many people are already doing this,” she said.

“Then I quickly realised as I got into the industry how fake it all is, how set-up it is. I didn’t want to make fake content so I thought I’d make relatable content with real people.”

She said sex work has given her a “beautiful life” and would never be “ashamed” of promoting it.

“(But) it’s not for everyone,” she said.

I’ve chosen a job, and I’m proud of that job. You don’t ever need hide something, especially when what you’re doing is legal.”

Grateful for her work along with the support of her family – even helping her manage her social media accounts – she said if she was splashing her cash, drinking and taking drugs, it would be a different story.

“From day one I’ve been driven, happy, and managed myself,” she said.

“OnlyFans is a million dollar business – you have to be business driven. When people say it’s short term, the money is going to dry up – that goes with every job. If you stop working you stop getting paid. Someone commented on one of my videos and was like, ‘’Do you not understand – recruiters use the internet, you’re never going to be able to get a job after this,’ I was thinking, ‘I’m rich – I don’t need a job after this’.”

Planning on retiring from the adult industry in five years and living off future investments, Ms Blue said she’d managed to turn around $2 million since her introduction last year.

OnlyFans as a platform works by users paying a subscription fee each month with free and paid video options. Ms Blue said her paid video options range from $8.99 to $35 per video with many subscribers sending in custom requests.

“Gosh they send through anything from wanting me to send up pictures of the toilet roll to them wanting me to undress out of tight gym clothes, wanting me to trump (pass wind) on camera. I’ve sold spit before for $3000,” she said.

“I’m in a position where I’m earning like $20,000 to my maximum was $50,000 a day.

“There’s no one that’s doing the content I’m doing – yes, there’s loads of beautiful women that do OnlyFans but my content is so different.”

Ms Blue has since gone onto film in Los Angeles with Canadian pornographic video production company Brazzers which has a worldwide reach into the millions.

Paid $2250 for a full day of production she said while the money wasn’t worthwhile long term, the exposure and content was worth its weight in gold.

“I didn’t realise it’s like a fully Hollywood set – I was shaking I was so nervous,” she said.

“There’s so much detail about the script – where your hair should be – where your eyes should be – and the make up and hair stylists are touching you up midscene. I couldn’t believe how much actually goes behind it. It was definitely a pinch-me moment – Brazzers has 50 million followers on socials.”

Now what? She plans to take on Freshers’ Week – the first week of university term for British students in the UK.

“It’s basically the same as Spring Break and Schoolies,” she said. “I want to visit as many uni halls, uni parties as I can then do videos with them, and just a lot more fun.

“My mum used to say don’t be the town bike - but now it pays for everyone’s bills.”

As for what mum thinks now, she told the Bulletin from the UK: “At first I was shocked and didn’t understand, I’m older so wasn’t fully aware of OnlyFans and what it meant,” she said.

“It’s her life and she’s a strong independent woman and I’m super proud of her. Her confidence now is amazing and nice to see her shining and happy. Me and her dad couldn’t be prouder, love her and here to support her.”

‘Get in the basement’: Sex worker’s horrifying ordeal

A Gold Coast-based sex worker who infamously filmed with Schoolies has detailed her most terrifying incident on the job, involving a married man telling her to get in his basement.

British expat Bonnie Blue sparked heated debate when filming explicit content for her OnlyFans account with 18-year-old high school graduates during Schoolies last year.

Ms Blue received global backlash but said anyone who took issue with it had a problem with the law as she was filming with consenting adults.

Since then the 25-year-old claims she has amassed a $2 million by going on to sleep with 122 young men in Mexico during American’s Schoolies equivalent, Spring Break, and invested her wealth in student housing in her native United Kingdom.

In a sitdown with the Bulletin, she has unveiled her most traumatic memory from life as a Gold Coast sex worker and why she’s taken a step back from escorting.

“I went into this big house out past Helensvale and there was loads of shoes downstairs, so I asked if he was having a party. He said it was his wife’s birthday she’s gone out with her friends and told me not to worry - they’re not coming back up,” she said.

“We go upstairs and it was this huge house and all the lights were off. It was the first time I’d been a bit scared – it just didn’t feel right.”

Ms Blue said as they reached the second floor his wife and friends returned.

“I thought ‘Oh my God, they’re going to blame me, I’m going to get beat up in this situation,” Ms Blue said.

She claimed she was ushered onto the balcony by the client and told to climb down.

“He said they will hurt you – I literally did not know what to do,” she said. “I couldn’t go down and explain I was an escort because they’re not even going to give me to chance to explain.”

The expat was told to wait on the balcony while he tried to “distract them”, eventually telling her there was a basement with a self-contained bedroom his wife didn’t know about where she could “hide”.

“I said ‘No I just want to leave – please let me leave,’ and he was like ‘Oh I’ve got a basement, it’s got a bed, it’s all set up – I can put you in there for the night’.

“I was honestly thinking, if I get in that basement, I’m not coming out. Like, I’m not - I’m not going to this basement.”

Ms Blue again asked to leave with the ordeal lasting an hour when she eventually tried to go.

“I said ‘I’m going I don’t care what happens now I’m walking out that door’,” she said.

“Luckily I had my friend outside waiting – sometimes I’d pay a friend to drive me and wait. She saw all these cars rock up and thought I’d been ambushed.

“Worst case with my friend there I could call for help if need be so I text her and said if I’m not out in the next 10 minutes call the police.”

The young woman admitted she had no idea how she was going to get out of this situation – claiming all she could ask herself was how she could make it to the front door and how could she manage not getting put in the basement.

“When I was trying to leave he opened the safe and was trying to fill my bag with money saying, ‘No please stay, come to the basement with me, you’ll really enjoy it there,’” she said. “He must have put $12,000 to $15,000 in my bag – I had to pull all the money out and then I managed to get out.”

Ms Blue said she left her shoes at the door and fled, with her friend speeding off.

She said it was her worst experience.

“That was the weirdest thing – why have you got a bedroom set up in the basement that your wife doesn’t know about. Not to mention why are you bringing someone over when it’s your wife’s birthday party – nothing added up,” she said.

“I was so shaken I didn’t escort for the rest of the week.”

Ms Blue warned anyone contemplating the industry to never go into it naive.

“People never understand when you’re doing escorting how dangerous it can be,” she said.

“You’re turning up to someone’s house, someone’s hotel, they lock the door and they’re paying to do basically whatever they want.”

She took a “blunt knife” with her out on her first job, she said.

She warned even in hotels with cameras and security, it was only be beneficial after the fact.

“At that point I’m already in a body bag being escorted out in a suitcase – it’s too late and too many people don’t understand that.”