Sarah Jayne Dunn has revealed trolls furiously branded her ‘cheap’ for joining OnlyFans, but insists she ‘wished she’d done it sooner.’
The actress, 42, was previously axed from her role on Hollyoaks for sharing racy content on the social media site, and has now slammed bosses for ‘blatant hypocrisy’ after being ‘sexualised’ through calendar shoots on the soap.
Speaking to The Sun for their Shamed YouTube series, Sarah revealed she was branded ’embarrassing’ by trolls for setting up an OnlyFans account.
She said: ‘I’d been sexualised and been made an object of sexual desire for my entire adult life.
‘To then be told I couldn’t do it on my own terms? That was really the bit that stung because it just didn’t make sense to me.’
Sarah Jayne Dunn has revealed trolls furiously branded her ’embarrassing and cheap’ for joining OnlyFans , but insists she ‘wished she’d done it sooner’
Sarah’s exit from Hollyoaks came after an unnamed co-star logged a formal complaint, and bosses have since changed cast members’ contracts to ban them from launching their own OnlyFans.
She also vehemetly disagreed with producers claims that the site’s raunchy content didn’t align with Hollyoaks’ young audience.
Sarah added that when she posed for racy calendar shoots during her time on Hollyoaks, she had ‘no control’ over the airbrushing that was done to the images, while on OnlyFans she has full say on the images she releases.
Despite earning thousands through her OnlyFans content, Sarah said she has faced trolling from some users, especially those noting: ‘She’s a mother.’
Reading out comments she’d received, the actress noted words such as: ‘her family must be embarrassed’ to ‘desperate’, ‘cheap’, ‘nasty’, ‘those pictures are embarrassing’ and ‘mid-life crisis’.
She added: ‘Trolls told me that I’ll regret it but I’m over two years down the line with OnlyFans now and I have zero regrets.
‘Actually, that’s wrong, I do have one regret: I wish I’d started it sooner!’
It was previously reported that she has made upwards of £700,000 on the platform, almost six times what she made at the height of her Hollyoaks career.
The actress was previously axed from her role as Mandy Richardson on Hollyoaks for sharing racy content on the social media site
Sarah revealed she was branded ’embarrassing’ by trolls for setting up an OnlyFans account, but her only regret is that she hadn’t done it sooner
She explained she has the full support of her husband of six years, Jonathan Smith, and the couple had talked about her ‘limitations and boundaries’ when she first joined
While Sarah refused to put an exact number on her earning, she admitted that it ‘exceeded all expectations’ and revealed: ‘I think my second month on the platform was better than a year on Hollyoaks.’
She pointed out that she isn’t doing anything different to what she did while on the show, limiting her content to lingerie pictures and refusing to venture into X-rated content.
She explained she has the full support of her husband of six years, Jonathan Smith, and the couple had talked about her ‘limitations and boundaries’ when she first joined.
Sarah argued that her content was just like typical modelling shots and said she compares it to ‘the lads’ mags of the Nineties and Noughties – Maxim and FHM.’
She says that joining OnlyFans was the ‘best decision of my life’ and allows her to be financially free as well as work to her own schedule, allowing her more time with her family and ability to go on holidays.
Sarah told The Sun: ‘I have my own voice and I’m not being filtered in any way or not being able to say something as it doesn’t go with what the channel thinks.
‘It’s nice to be able to go, ‘Actually this is me and this is what I think’ — and if it I want to say ‘f***’, I can.’
Speaking about how long she intends to stay on the platform, Sarah previously admitted she will probably give up OnlyFans once her son Stanley, 7, gets older.
