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Bonnie Blue

British pornographic actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ129719542 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tia Billinger (born 1999), known professionally as Bonnie Blue, is an English pornographic film actress. After attending 2023's schoolies week, she had sex with large numbers of students at both spring break in Cancún, Mexico, and freshers' week in Derby and Nottingham, England, and went viral for discussing her sex life on GK Barry's podcast Saving Grace. She was criticised during this period for the age of her co-stars (as young as 18) and for comments that critics have described as promoting misogyny and the sexual objectification of women.

Blue claimed to have had sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours on 11 January 2025, making her the subject of months of media attention and inspiring similar events by Lily Phillips, Annie Knight, and Drake Von. She was banned from OnlyFans in June after announcing and later cancelling an event in which she would be tied up naked inside a glass box with the goal of having sex with 2,000 men, following which she moved her content to Fansly. She then organised a freshers' week tour and claimed to have had unprotected sex with about 400 men in one day. In 2025, she was the fourth-most searched-for porn star on Pornhub and the fifth-most searched-for topic by UK users of Google Search.

Life and career

1999–2025: Early life and career beginnings

Blue was born Tia Billinger in 1999 in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, and grew up in nearby Draycott. She attended Friesland School, and took part in the British street dance championships with her sister in 2015. Blue originally wanted to be a midwife but changed her plan during her A-levels after discovering that she was already earning the post's starting salary by working in a Poundstretcher store and as a dance teacher.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bonnie Blue” as british pornographic actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2023, 2025, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-05-14. The account is most persuasive where Bonnie, Blue and British can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as british pornographic actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q129719542. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2023, 2025 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bonnie Blue” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.