LIZ JONES: Bonnie Blue made her identify with degrading intercourse stunts. Now she’s writing for The Spectator – and with one sentence blows her entire sordid charade aside
Why is a porn star being given valuable column inches in the double Christmas edition of The Spectator?
You know, the high-brow, mainstream Tory magazine edited by Michael Gove, a former cabinet minister and a man we thought was, well, intelligent and reasonable? Oh, and a father?
Once in charge of our children’s education, he has now allowed his publication to promulgate the wisdom of Bonnie Blue, the internet sex worker most famous (or infamous) for her attempt to sleep with 1,000 men in a day?
The piece in question has the unintentionally hilarious heading, ‘I stand with Nigel Farage’ (strange, as she spends so much of her time prone), and is not an interview – which many papers, including this one, have done – but in her own words. Which means there’s no filter, no context, no being held to account.
Her column, extolling the virtues of the Reform UK leader and sex work in the same breath, sits alongside pieces about ‘The radical message of Christianity’, ‘How the Queen is spreading the joy of reading’ and ‘Who inspired Winnie the Pooh?’
In her article, the 26-year-old, whose real name is Tia Billinger, writes: ‘My family say I’m impossible to buy for now I’m better off’. She earned an estimated £3million in 2024 from her sex marathons but, poor lamb, had to ‘pay for the venue and provide condoms’, tax-deductible expenses which I am sure caused the tax man to go grey.
Bonnie Blue at Ngurah Rai Immigration Office in Bali – where she was recently arrested. She now faces being deported
Bonnie, most famous for her attempt to sleep with 1,000 men in a day, has written an article in the Christmas edition of The Spectator extolling the virtues of Nigel Farage
The Spectator piece is published despite the fact Bonnie has recently been arrested in Indonesia and is banned from Australia. Will she be guest of honour at the annual Speccie Christmas party, I wonder? To rub shoulders with the great and the now clearly not so good?
It’s written in the style of ‘What I did on my holidays’. I wager some nepo toff ghosted it: ‘Don’t be a slut like me. Stay hydrated, stay warm… Given that I’m often naked, people wonder why I have a stylist. Yes, I’m a sex worker, but I’m also sophisticated and quite elegant.’
What the Speccie editors are doing here is warming the silly filly up, allowing her to think she’s getting her hobby horses across – her love of family and designer shops – before letting her hoist herself on her own petard.
Because she then starts to opine about the state of the nation, doubtless egged on by the chap with the keyboard.
‘I’m not knowledgeable about politics, but I do know the UK is very messed up… There are too many people here, we are too accommodating and it is causing problems.’
By ‘too many people’ she is talking about illegal migrants. She’s also anti-inheritance tax and thinks Reform has ‘sensible positions’ on both these topics.
Bonnie, real name Tia Billinger, writes: ‘I’m not knowledgeable about politics, but I do know the UK is very messed up…’
Oh, and this is priceless: move over Emily Maitlis because a young woman who doesn’t even have the sense to know she’s being abused, who will never be able to look her children, if she ever has any, in the eye, then says, ‘Andrew [Mountbatten-Windsor] seems a bit of a lad. I should give him a fast pass to my next event.’
I am all for free speech but, honestly. Not only is BB damaging her body and her mental health, she is validating men who treat women like vessels whose only role is to pleasure them.
And here’s the funniest paragraph: oh, how the Speccie office must have rung with laughter.
‘I don’t know if I’ll be allowed in the history books. If I am, I’d like to be thought of as the woman who changed sex work. I’ve made it more accessible – which is why people hate me.’ By ‘accessible’ she means what earns her the most money.
This is capitalism at its most dangerous. The piece ends with her saying she plans to enter the New Year with an even bigger bang.
This execrable piece, published on Thursday morning, is currently the most read article on the Spectator website. I’ve just paid £3 to read it, and now feel like I need a wash.
I would say the magazine is perhaps trying to damage Reform by positioning her as the party’s poster girl, and by doing so attempting to shore up the Tories.
The Speccie’s aim is surely to have Farage’s potential voters back away, concluding that this is one step too far.
But I don’t know, perhaps Farage will be thrilled. You know what they say about all publicity being good publicity…
