Tia Emma Billinger (born May 1999), known professionally as Bonnie Blue, is an English pornographic film actress and OnlyFans content creator. She has been controversial for her sexual content with university students and married men, her claims to have had sex with 1,057 men in one day, and her goals of having sex with as many men as possible. She made several appearances on podcasts in 2024 which generated several weeks of backlash on Twitter; a subsequent appearance on This Morning prompted 188 complaints to Ofcom. An advert featuring her and involving the online casino Stake later prompted that firm to exit the UK market.
Tia Emma Billinger was born in May 1999 in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. She grew up with her mother, her step-father, and two half-sisters but never knew her biological father. She attended the Friesland School and planned on being a professional dancer or midwife. She attended Vibez Danceworks in Long Eaton and, with her sister, she competed in the 2015 British Street Dance Championships. At age 15, she began dating a classmate; marrying him in Westminster in February 2022; the pair later moved to Australia. In 2023, disillusioned by a 9-to-5 job and inspired by others’ successes on TikTok, she became a webcam model and, after making more money than expected, she launched an OnlyFans page.
Blue then began earning money by filming herself having sex with 18- and 19-year-old students, as they were her target audience. She later supplemented her money-for-sex income with married men after a student’s father became jealous, and then began making money via sex with lecturers. In March 2024, her online popularity soared after she visited Cancún and then schoolies week in Australia and freshers’ week in the UK. For the latter, she posted her address online and allowed men to queue to have sex with her at no cost, so long as they consented to it being filmed and used in her online content. She visited Nottingham and Derby in September 2024 and Birmingham in October 2024, each for a week, with the intention of having sex with as many students as possible.
Blue made several appearances on podcasts, including Dream On with Lottie Moss and Saving Grace with GK Barry. Clips of her podcast appearances, in which she claimed to have had sex with “hundreds” of “barely legal” students, went viral online and generated significant backlash on Twitter over several weeks, with some questioning what repercussions her co-stars could suffer and others accusing her of manipulation. Some also argued that filming and distributing amateur pornography featuring 18- and 19-year-olds was a moral grey area, while journalist Sophie Wilkinson described her as “a cog in a far bigger machine” and “want[ed] to know who hurt her”. Blue later stated that those complaining about the young age of her co-stars should instead encourage the government of the United Kingdom to increase the country’s age of consent and attributed the reaction to Saving Grace on the podcast’s female audience, prompting others to accuse her of misogyny. She later reiterated her stance on married men on The Kyle and Jackie O Show. Barry later deleted the episode.
In November 2024, after having her visas cancelled in Australia and Fiji for working without an appropriate visa, Blue appeared on the ITV daytime show This Morning, in which she debated against Ashley James over the promotion of her content. The appearance prompted 188 complaints to Ofcom. James later wrote a piece for Grazia stating that she had debated Blue, as she had found previous interviews lacking on the grounds that women had not challenged her, and men had only done so on grounds she considered patriarchal such as her body count or the opinion of her father. Claire Hubble of the i wrote that Blue’s virality was “a reflection of the outrage economy” and compared her success to that of Katie Hopkins.