Adult content star Bonnie Blue is awaiting her fate after being detained in Bali on alleged violations of Indonesia’s strict ‘morality’ laws. Nearly 20 male tourists were thrown into custody after cops raided the star’s accommodation
Controversial adult star Bonnie Blue has been detained in Bali for allegedly creating pornographic content in violation of Indonesia’s strict ‘morality’ laws.
The British sex worker, real name Tia Billinger, was thrown into custody on Thursday afternoon alongside 17 male tourists, aged between 19 and 40 from Australia and the UK. Cops swarmed in on Bonnie’s accommodation in Badung after a member of the public called the police. As a Muslim-majority country, Indonesia takes a tough line on distributing, producing or publicly displaying adult content, and the star could face up to 15 years prison and a fine of about £270,000 if convicted.
The 26-year-old, who rose to fame for organising extreme sex “challenges” with general members of the public – including ‘barely legal’ teenagers – had travelled to the holiday hotspot on a tourist visa to take her ‘Bang Bus’ tour international.
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When police raided the Nottingham-born star’s rented studio, they seized several cameras, 19 outfits labelled ‘School Bonnie Blue’, lubricant, nine pink necklaces, a box of condoms, flash drives, two sheets of Viagra pills – some used, and her ‘Bang Bus’ van along with the ownership certificate, according to reports.
Arif Batubara, Badung’s Police Chief, told local media on Friday that he had made the arrests after a report from a member of the public. They had raised concerns after “suspected pornography or the creation of indecent video material”, they said. Pornography is strictly banned in Indonesia, with those found on the wrong side of the law facing heavy penalties, including hefty fines and jail stints. There is no suggestion that any minor was involved.
Bonnie is said to have sourced a van locally as part of her ‘Bang Bus’ project, in a bid to attract Australian students in the country celebrating graduation, known “Schoolies”. She recently travelled around the UK to attend various Freshers events as part of the same ‘challenge’. After landing in Bali, she wrote on social media: “Hey boys, those that are going to Schoolies and to those who are barely legal, cannot wait to meet you and I’m in Bali, so you know exactly what that means.”
Video footage showed 14 Aussie men walking out of a detention centre covering their faces with T-shirts and even a McDonald’s bag shortly after they were arrested on Friday. It’s claimed that the group were released together after being interviewed as witnesses and will likely be allowed to head home in a matter of days. An immigration official from Ngurah Rai told the Daily Mail: “They (the 14 Australians) will be allowed to go back to their country after we finish the examination.”
Bonnie, along with two Brits and an Australian, were detained for longer, with the adult content creator eventually being released on Saturday morning, the publication reports. But the nightmare wasn’t over, as the viral sex star was then handed over to immmigration officers and is set to be interviewed over Tuesday and Wednesday.
Police Chief Batubara said on Saturday: “We have handed them over to the Immigration for further investigation on alleged breaking Immigration law. Police investigation are still ongoing. We jointly conduct the investigation with the Immigration.”
Bonnie’s fierce rival Annie Knight has slammed the star’s decision to travel to Bali in a scathing interview. “It’s really not surprising, she told news.com.au. “You go to a country where sex work is illegal and you do sex work, you’re going to get arrested. I tried to warn her on the Kyle and Jackie O show and she decided to go ahead with her plans… she made a decision and it hasn’t paid off.”
Chaos also erupted in September back on home soil when Bonnie was reportedly punched in the face at a student nightclub in Sheffield. Police arrived at the scene but shortly after, they confirmed to The Mirror that incident was settled “through an outcome of restorative justice.”
Bonnie has become notorious for taking part in extreme sex stunts, including sleeping with 1,057 men in the space of just 12 hours. In recent months, her troubling career ambitions escalated to the point where OnlyFans barred her from the sex site. The final straw came in June, when the 26-year-old announced her plans to hold a human “petting zoo challenge”. The stunt would have seen Bonnie locked in a glass cage as strangers came to do “whatever they wanted” to her, sparking complaints from fellow sex workers and women’s rights activists that she was glamourising rape culture.
In Channel 4’s recent documentary ‘1,000 Men And Me: The Bonnie Blue Story’ – which sparked hundreds of Ofcom complaints – Nottinghamshire-born Bonnie boasted: “I am going to be completely helpless, tied down, gagged, choked”. OnlyFans had concerns about the stunt, which it claims was in violation of their Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service, and issued a permanent ban. Campaigners have long called for the website to take action against Bonnie’s content but it continued to platform her until very recently.
Away from the sex site, Bonnie has also been banned from foreign countries and even a football stadium back in the UK. She often brags about being barred from certain places – a tactic that fuels her self-confessed rage-bait strategy and drives views on social media.
Earlier this year, she told the Daily Star that she’d been marched off the premises of Nottingham Forest Football Stadium last October and permanently barred. She claimed: “I didn’t understand why, because I’d not actually done anything… when you go to football, you’ve got football hooligans, people fighting, drinking, you’ve got so much bigger things to be concerned about, and they were just like – no, you’re banned.”
Bonnie is also banned from Australia and Fiji after her plans to sleep with 18-year-old boys for content during ‘Schoolies Week’ infuriated Aussie parents. A 20,000-strong petition ensued, and her visa was revoked. However, last month, she brazenly bragged about the ban and insisted that she was still planning to go ahead with her controversial ‘Schoolies’ event despite the uproar.
“Every year the government and the middle-aged mums try to ban me from Schoolies,” she said in a video. “But this year it is impossible to ban me. With good lawyers, a lot of money, flights, villa, and the boys lined up, I cannot wait to do Schoolies 2025 bigger than ever.”
