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‘Hollyoaks’ Star Sarah Jayne Dunn Says OnlyFans Makes Her Feel ‘Empowered’ Amid Sacking Row

Hollyoaks star Sarah Jayne Dunn has revealed posting OnlyFans content makes her feel 'empowered,' amid her sacking from the Channel 4 soap over signing up to the site. 
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Hollyoaks star Sarah Jayne Dunn has revealed posting OnlyFans content makes her feel ’empowered,’ amid her sacking from the Channel 4 soap over signing up to the site. 

The actress made the revelation in her first TV interview with Good Morning Britain. 

She told hosts Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway: “I find them [the photoshoots for content] empowering, I get a lot of positivity from other women, mostly other women, who say it is inspiring and motivating.

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Sarah Jayne Dunn said posting content on OnlyFans makes her feel ’empowered’. Credit: ITV

“I’m a 40-year-old woman, I’m a mum, I work hard to stay in shape, and I feel good and I feel confident. Doing those photoshoots make me feel that way.”

Addressing the reason she joined the site, the ex-soap star continued: “The idea was to launch OnlyFans and take back some power and control over my images. What I create, where I put them and put them on the platform.

“I was going to run that alongside my job as well, and it’s not a decision that I made but this is where we are, and I’m looking at the future and where I’m at, and really enjoying being in control of everything. It’s really empowering.”

When asked if she understood why soap bosses were uncomfortable with her content, she responded: “The site itself, you have to be over 18 to access, but my specific content was no different to the content I’ve put on Instagram, that I’ve done for men’s magazines, for calendars all of my career.

“So actually by putting it onto a platform where you have to be over 18 to actually get on there, is protecting it from the younger audience.

“It’s taking it out of the public view and it’s putting it behind a paywall where you have to be of a certain age to view it.”

A Hollyoaks spokesperson said: “Hollyoaks is a youth-facing drama with many young viewers, who follow our cast very closely, both in the soap and outside of it.

“We take our responsibility to our young audience very seriously and therefore the show does not allow any Hollyoaks cast members to be active on certain 18+ websites.

“We had hoped we could reach a resolution with Sarah that would allow her to remain in her role as Mandy, but we respect her choice to continue to produce content on OnlyFans.”

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Written by Aimee Walker

Aimee is a senior content editor at IGV who specialises in finding the best original stories, trending topics and entertainment news. She graduated from Birmingham City University with a degree in Media and Communications.