Channel 4, a British TV station, has come under fire for its documentary about a porn star. The documentary, 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story, premiered on July 29, 2025. Critics have slammed the documentary for including pornographic content. However, the network has defended the sexual content in the documentary, saying that it provides “essential context.”
Channel 4 has argued, “The explicit content in the documentary is editorially justified and provides essential context; making pornographic content is Bonnie’s job, and this film is about her work and the response to it,” per LADbible.
Bonnie Blue, whose real name is Tia Billinger, has reportedly had sex with 1,057 people within 12 hours. In addition to participating in controversial sex challenges like this one, Bonnie Blue is known for “barely legal” sexual content that features performers who look very young, per The Independent.
This “barely legal” content has made the documentary especially controversial. In one scene, Bonnie is shown getting ready for an orgy with performers who were “selected because they look very young,” per The Guardian. In response, a UK pornography taskforce is trying to ban this type of content.
The children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has accused the documentary of “glamorizing and normalizing” pornographic content, the news outlet reported. The documentary doesn’t show Bonnie having sex with the young-looking actors. It does, however, include footage of her having sex with 1,000 men, though the clips are pixelated.
Channel 4 has sunk a new low. Why is there a documentary on Bonnie Blue? Why are they trying to normalise her deviancy on national television? pic.twitter.com/DMA2uFpxZO
— Emi Eleode (@EmiEleode) July 29, 2025
According to Channel 4, the documentary is meant to explore the question, “When adult content creator Bonnie Blue announced that she’d slept with 1,057 men in 12 hours, was she dangerously pandering to male fantasies or being an empowered sex-positive entrepreneur?”
But many critics feel that the documentary fails to actually address this. On X, one critic wrote: “Channel 4 has sunk a new low. Why is there a documentary on Bonnie Blue? Why are they trying to normalize her deviancy on national television?”
On Reddit, some people defended the documentary. “It’s a show about a porn star making porn,” one person argued. “Of course they’re going to show some snippets of porn.”
