How to Make It on OnlyFans

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1x 60' for Channel 4
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Former glamour model Alex Sim-Wise helps people sell sexy content on the subscription website OnlyFans. When OnlyFans controversially announces a plan to ban adult content, turning the online sex work industry upside down, can Alex and her protégés fight to keep their livelihoods?

Alex Sim-Wise is a superstar glamour model of the 2000s. She now makes £10,000 a month as a content creator on subscription-based platform OnlyFans, where anyone can make money by posting content they think others will pay to see. Sex workers and adult performers have used it to make millions - and now, legions of everyday people are curious about doing the same.

Pitching herself as “the one-woman Trinny and Susannah for slags,” Alex has set up a consultancy helping ordinary people emulate her success. People like Emily – who’s just quit her steady customer service job to become a full-time online sex worker; Will – who shoots gay fetish content in his spare time; and Zoe – a sales worker with distinctive feet, who’s curious to see if they could make her some extra cash. Beguiled and intrigued by the prospect of making a fortune from online sex work, all three are navigating different aspects of the reality of this tough, precarious world. But when OnlyFans announces - without warning - its intention to ban adult content, sending a shockwave through the sex work industry, Alex and her clients are left wondering: will they be able to hang on to their livelihoods?

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Production Company: Little Bird Films
Commissioning Editor:  Sacha Mirzoeff
Assistant Producer: Haf Gibson
Directors of Photography: Alisdair Livingstone, Paul Hawkins
Editors: Jeremy Lott, Ferg McGrath​
Executive Producer: Dominique Walker
Filmed, Produced and Directed by:  Rosemary Baker