A Champions League final streaker left fans gobsmacked when she stormed onto the pitch to promote her ex-boyfriend’s adult website in the showpiece of club football
A Champions League final streaker stunned the world when she pushed past security and made her way onto the pitch.
But the Kinsey Wolanski who stole the spotlight at the Wanda Metropolitano in 2019 couldn’t be further from the woman she is today. Liverpool and Tottenham were almost 10 minutes into the clash, with Jurgen Klopp’s legendary Reds already 1-0 up thanks to a Mohamed Salah penalty, when Wolanski exposed almost everything as she sprinted across the pitch in a skimpy black swimsuit.
Images went viral on social media, after TV cameras quickly cut away, and football fans scrambled to learn more about this blonde bombshell, who had hijacked the biggest night in European football to promote her ex-boyfriend’s adult website.
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“By the time I’m 30, I plan on making enough money to retire,” she told the press in the weeks following the stunt. “And streaking in the Champions League will only help me achieve that. I plan to do a lot more streaking to raise my profile.
“After I was released from jail, I had gone from 300,000 followers on Instagram to over two million. You can’t buy that kind of publicity.
“Suddenly, I was famous all over the world and had job offers flooding in. I don’t think I did anyone any harm; it was just a bit of fun.
“The fans loved it, the players seemed to love it, and even the police at the station were asking for my photograph by the time I got out. The response has been unbelievable, I couldn’t be happier. It was the biggest thrill of my life.”
However, sadly, there hasn’t been much more streaking from the blonde bombshell – aside the Alpine Ski World Cup a few months later – and rather than retiring at 30, which she turns in August, Kinsey seems to be just getting started.
Even before the Champions League final, Kinsey had already enjoyed a taste of fame, appearing in Sports Illustrated, FHM and Maxim. Some reports at the time even claimed she had posed topless for shoots.
But during an Instagram Q&A, Kinsey was quick to shut those rumours down: “After a few inaccurate articles online, I’ll clarify this,” she wrote. “I have never modelled topless or nude.”
While she denied posing nude for magazines, Kinsey had bared all on screen in the 2019 horror comedy Slasher Party before her infamous Champions League stunt.
After streaking during the final, Kinsey moved into social media content – and she thrilled fans with sultry uploads while launching her own gymwear line: Kinsey Fit.
“You see the Vine kids who fell off when Vine fell off…You have to adapt quickly,” Kinsey explained to Esquire. She added: “The hardest part about being an influencer is the credibility of the industry!”
“People don’t understand how hard we work. People ask, ‘What do you even do?’ It’s a fun job, but it’s not easy.”
During the same period, she also split from Vitaly Zdorovetski, the American-Russian YouTuber behind the infamous Champions League stunt.
Kinsey told the Residency Podcast: “Vitaly’s a great guy, we were best friends, and we had the same career, so it was really easy to have our goals aligned.
“But there’s only one star in the show. Once I got my career, that was really hard on Vitaly; it wasn’t like that split equal time. It got weird and competitive.”
As the world reopened following the Covid-19 pandemic, Kinsey found a new obsession in adventure sports.
It started with skydiving. And even a broken ankle after dropping 20ft during a difficult landing on a particularly windy day in 2020 failed to slow her down.
Instead, Kinsey pushed herself even further, eventually training to become a pilot.
“Getting my pilot’s license was one of the most challenging but rewarding things I have ever done,” she explained in an Instagram video.
“I flew 112 hours before taking my flight check ride exam. You have to pass three exams: [an] intense written exam, [an] oral exam on the ground, and lastly the in-flight exam. The entire process took me one-and-a-half years.”
And in an interview with Cosmopolitan, Kinsey explained why she loves extreme activities: “I grew up doing flips, tricks, gymnastics, and basically every single kind of sport.
“When I started acting, people in auditions would tell me ‘you should do stunts as well, because not only can you be the actress, but you can also be the stuntwoman’.
“I was like, wait, that sounds fun, and I’m not really scared of anything (which is both one of my faults and also one of my best qualities), so I just dived right in. I got my skydiving license, my helicopter license and my motorcycle license. Everything you can think of; I was all in.”
One of her more outrageous stunts saw Kinsey team up with close pal Tanner Fox, who disguised himself in prosthetics as an elderly man before the pair went skydiving together and posed as a couple in public.
But life away from the cameras hasn’t been all adrenaline-fuelled chaos. Kinsey has also invested heavily in property and, in recent years, begun carving out a career as a presenter.
Sharing sporting clips across social media, Kinsey has interviewed stars and even stepped inside a UFC octagon herself.
Much of her content now revolves around the NFL, although she has also worked with names from baseball, UFC and WWE – all while trying to shake off the label she dislikes most: “Instagram girl”.
“I am labelled all the time,” Kinsey told Cosmopolitan. “If you read the comments on my page, you’ll usually come across things like ‘another typical blonde influencer’.
“But when people stay on my page, they quickly learn that that’s definitely not me. I am a professional stuntwoman, entrepreneur and social media content creator.”
Seven years on from the night she stunned millions by invading the pitch during European football’s biggest game, Kinsey has transformed herself far beyond the “Champions League streaker” and “Instagram girl” tag that first made her famous.
And with all her careers making her life constantly in the fast lane, Kinsey might not have the time to tune into Saturday evening’s showpiece between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in Budapest.