Sarah Jayne Dunn isn’t looking back. Three years after being unceremoniously axed from Hollyoaks over her OnlyFans hustle, the 43-year-old actress is pulling in more money than ever—without the hypocrisy, the stalkers, or the studio execs telling her what to do with her own damn image.
And according to her, OnlyFans isn’t just more profitable. It’s safer.
“[OnlyFans] has actually been a much safer space than the likes of Instagram or TikTok or any of the other platforms that I use,” she told The Sun, dropping the kind of truth bomb that would make social media managers sweat. Unlike other platforms, where trolls and creeps have an open-door policy, OnlyFans lets her decide what she wants to see. Messages are pixelated until she chooses to open them. The power is in her hands—a stark contrast to her years on Hollyoaks, where she felt like a sitting duck.
Dunn has been open about a terrifying stalker ordeal, where she was bombarded with “disturbing” messages. She reported it to the show’s producers. Their response? Lukewarm at best. “I went to Hollyoaks and it was a case of, ‘Right, just send us what he sent you.’” She took it to the police, but they were just as useless. “They don’t do anything and they can’t do anything. And that’s terrifying.”
Yet, when she launched her OnlyFans, suddenly Hollyoaks had a problem. Dunn, who had spent her career as the show’s designated bombshell—gracing steamy calendar shoots, playing the sex symbol—was now being vilified for choosing to profit off her own image.
“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,” she said. Hollyoaks bosses cried morality, claiming the racy site didn’t align with the show’s “young audience.” But Dunn wasn’t buying it. “I’d been sexualized and made an object of sexual desire for my entire adult life. What was different now? That I was making the money instead of them?”
To add insult to injury, her exit from the show wasn’t even some dramatic final scene—it came after an unnamed co-star logged a formal complaint. After that, the studio changed its contracts, banning cast members from starting their own OnlyFans accounts. A neat little way of keeping their talent in line, while they continued cashing in on their sex appeal.
But Dunn wasn’t about to slink away in shame. She doubled down. She took control of her image. And she made bank.
“I think my second month on the platform was better than a year on Hollyoaks,” she revealed. Reports suggest she’s cleared over £700,000 on OnlyFans—nearly six times what she made at the peak of her soap career. And while the trolls call her “cheap” and “desperate,” she’s too busy stacking cash to care. “Trolls told me that I’d regret it,” she said. “But I’m over two years down the line with OnlyFans now and I have zero regrets.”
Actually, scratch that—she does have one regret: “I wish I’d started sooner.”
And for all the pearl-clutchers who gasp, But she’s a mother!—Dunn’s got no time for it. “Her family must be embarrassed,” they sneer. “Mid-life crisis.” “Nasty.” The insults roll in, but they don’t stick. Because unlike before, when she was at the mercy of a soap opera machine that dictated how she looked, posed, and performed, Dunn now calls the shots.
And guess what? She’s still not doing anything different from what she did on Hollyoaks. She’s not posting X-rated content. Just lingerie shots, just like the ones the show once paraded her in—except now, she profits. Now, she decides.
The old guard can clutch their pearls all they want. But Sarah Jayne Dunn? She’s laughing all the way to the bank.
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Last modified: March 24, 2025
