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Lily Phillips, Porn-Star Philosopher, Shocks BBC Newsnight—And Britain’s Aging Moral Compass

Somewhere between the rotting ruins of British imperial decorum and the smudged-glasses gaze of modern voyeurism, the BBC pulled the pin and lobbed a late-night cultural grenade. Its name? Lily Phillips. Its fuse? Porn at eleven—years old, not PM.

Newsnight, once the cathedral of high-minded BBC journalism, just handed the mic to a 23-year-old OnlyFans starlet who kicked off her sexual awakening the same year most kids are learning long division. Lily Phillips, speaking with the stony-faced Victoria Derbyshire, told the nation she first watched pornography at eleven—and she didn’t blink.

“Honestly, I probably watched pornography first when I was maybe 11,” said Phillips, matter-of-fact as if she were talking about brushing her teeth or binge-watching Peppa Pig. “I always thought it was very normal to watch.”

In the stale, dusty corridors of British Twitter—sorry, X—the reaction was biblical. Sodom and Gomorrah got name-dropped. Viewers howled. Moral panic swept the timeline like it was 1993 and someone just found a Madonna CD in their daughter’s backpack.

But here’s the rub—Phillips isn’t some back-alley shock jock. She’s articulate, sex-positive, and unbothered by the moral hangover of a nation that still pretends Page 3 never happened. She claims porn gave her “sex confidence,” that it was a learning tool, not a gateway drug. A mirror, not a monster.

“I don’t know life without pornography,” she said. “It had a positive effect.”

To the greybeards clutching pearls in the BBC’s dying light, this was heresy. To a generation raised on iPhones and incognito tabs, it’s Tuesday.

She went further, defending her own content as relatable, even wholesome—”so normal and relatable it feels like the camera isn’t there.” Not the kind of thing you’d expect from a woman whose résumé includes the infamous “101-men” stunt, but this is 2025 and the internet doesn’t blink.

Still, the backlash was swift and savage.

“Newsnight quality through the floor,” barked one armchair critic on X, mourning the days when serious news meant French elections and Turkish unrest. Another viewer spat: “Dear God, Newsnight interviewing a porn star about how watching porn at 11 influenced her doing porn.”

The collective takeaway? British media, once the pride of Oxford-educated suits, is now sipping cocktails with OnlyFans bombshells.

But maybe—just maybe—that’s the point. Maybe this is the news now: sex, screens, and the fallout of a generation raised by pixels instead of parents. Phillips didn’t just crack open the door to her industry—she booted it off the hinges and poured herself a glass of truth.

So while the establishment groans and the comment section combusts, OnlyBestGirls tips its hat to the chaos. Because if you want the real story in this twisted, turned-on world, it’s not in the war room—it’s in the bedroom, with a ring light.

And Lily Phillips? She’s not the end of journalism.

She’s just the next chapter.

Last modified: April 10, 2025

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