Bonnie Blue: How middle-class girl who married private schoolboy became sex worker

Bonnie Blue - whose real name is Tia Billinger - has faced backlash for boasting about sleeping with "barely legal" teens after recruiting students for sex videos outside student halls

Bonnie Blue has faced her fair share of criticism after boasting about her sexual encounters with students in an alleged bid for social media fame. But before offering sex for free to men willing to let her film it, Bonnie Blue - whose real name is Tia Billinger - lived a very different lifestyle.

Tia, now aged 25, grew up in a small Derbyshire village where she lapped up reality TV shows that gave her a craving for fame. While some might think her middle-class parents would be looking at their daughter in horror as she boasts of sleeping with hundreds of men online, it's a very different story behind closed doors.

Her mum has been by her side the last few weeks, supporting her daughter's antics and even claiming she works as her PA - handing condoms out to young clients and cleaning up stained sheets. 50-year-old hairdresser Sarah Billinger said she will "always support" her daughter in an interview.

Tia was a pupil at Friesland School in the Derbyshire village of Sandiacre, with former classmates remembering her as a popular girl who had hopes of becoming a dancer or even a midwife. "I was completely gob-smacked when I saw her all over the media this week," one ex-pupil told the Mail.

Born in May 1999, Tia took her mum's last name after revealing on social media she never really knew her biological father. She has two half-siblings, one sister and one brother who have remained very much out of the public eye.

When she was interviewed on TikTok last month by Kate Moss's younger sister, Lottie, another OnlyFans star, asked her: "What does your dad say about it?" Tia replied: "Honestly, he loves it."

"Obviously he doesn't sit watching the videos. He's just proud seeing how happy I am, how much I've been able to support the family. It's really changed my life and my family's life."

Her stepfather Nicholas Elliott told the Mail this week: "What my daughter does is none of my business. She's her own person. She's an adult. She's free to make her own choices. I don't know anything about the internet and I don't do social media. It's all another world to me."

Tia was considered a "star pupil" at her dance school, Vibez Danceworks in Long Eaton. She competed in the British Street Dance Championships in Glasgow in 2015 alongside her sister.

She also had a part time job at Poundstretcher, admitting her bank card "declined" multiple times while she was finding her way. Aged 15, she began dating private schoolboy Oliver Davidson, a talented swimmer and rugby player, and the son of a well-off local businessman, who was a pupil at Trent College, a private day and boarding school in Nottingham where fees can reach £45,000 a year.

After leaving school, she found work in recruitment, first at the Sellick Partnership in Derby before moving in 2018 to another firm in Nottingham. She set up home with Olli in a £250,000 semi-detached house in Stapleford near Nottingham, bought with financial support from her boyfriend's parents.

The couple eventually married in February 2022 in Westminster, eventually moving to the Gold Coast in Australia where she started a recruitment job. But wanting to move away from a typical 9-5 lifestyle, Tia became a 'cam girl' having seen videos on TikTok of young women doing the same thing.

Tia mentioned her now ex-husband earlier this year when describing her time in Australia to a podcaster, saying he had given her the confidence to enter the adult entertainment industry.

She said: "At the time, neither of us wanted to work Monday to Friday. We wanted more out of life. We knew continuing to do our jobs, doing the same, you're not going to change.' While believing she was 'not pretty enough' and 'people wouldn't want to watch me,' she says Olli told her: 'No, you're beautiful. Do it'."

Soon, she was making £5,000 a week but her relationship eventually fell apart, with the couple splitting up after nearly a decade together. Now, Tia's personal achievements include bedding 158 students during Nottingham Trent University's freshers week in September.

The adult star has faced a wave of backlash following her appearance on GK Barry's podcast Saving Grace where she spoke of sleeping with "barely legal" teens.