Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
So skint we turned to Onlyfans & made mint
Parents in sex video switch as Covid ruins businesses
EXCLUSIVE A “HOMELY” husband and wife are making a fortune by sharing their own adult videos after the Covid pandemic wrecked their businesses.
Charlotte, 39, and Bear, 41, were forced to apply for Universal Credit to support their five kids after trade at their salon and building firm was decimated.
But they now rake in over £7,000 a month from their daily films and images put on subscription-based social media platform Onlyfans, and are flying out to Greece next week to start a new life in the sun.
Charlotte, nicknamed Chots, told the Mirror: “We worked all our lives for our businesses but the pandemic decimated them. This is a lot more fun.”
She says close friends and family were surprised when they heard about the their new line of work. But as Onlyfans is an age verified platform, she is not worried about their children stumbling on their footage.
“I don’t think it’s something we’ve got to have a discussion with them about,” said Charlotte. Speaking about the Onlyfans move, she added: “We’ve always had an active sex life and it’s something we started joking about. We thought we’d give it a whirl.” The couple run two accounts, each with around 200 subscribers paying £15.99 a month.
Individual users can also request extra videos, for upwards of £10 a minute.
While subscribers can’t get enough of their antics, Charlotte says neighbours in her “quintessential English village” would be shocked. “I think they’d have kittens if they knew,” she joked. “They’d think, ‘No way, they’re not like that, they’re really normal’. We’re quite homely people really.”
And while there were initially “mixed emotions” about sharing their most intimate moments, the couple are now determined to keep up with demand for their content.
“We’ve now got lots of subscribers and we have to work hard to keep them,” added Charlotte.
On Monday they will fly to their new home and Charlotte said: “We love travel and prefer warm climates and we can create content wherever we are.
“We’re not making millions but if we get a new variant we’re lockdown-proof.”
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