Bonnie Blue has been condemned for filming herself sleeping with lusty teenagers in sordid social media stunts. Now she has her say... and reveals the fortune she's made

She is the star of adult films who has enraged mothers around the world by inviting 'barely legal 18-year-olds' to have sex with her on camera.

Now in her first British newspaper interview, Bonnie Blue, 25, hits back at her critics and insists: 'I am not a predator!'

The adult content creator, from Derbyshire, recently bedded hordes of teenage men at Nottingham Trent University Freshers Week – filming the encounters and then posting the footage on her OnlyFans account - which has already made her a millionaire - for the delectation of her subscribers.

She hopes to pull off a similar coup in Australia but thousands of concerned citizens have signed a petition calling for Blue to be turfed out of the country after she revealed her plans to bed 18-year-olds during 'Schoolies', a week-long holiday for high school graduates after their final exams in late November and early December.

Blue has nothing but scorn for her detractors: 'When they're signing it, they're doing it because they're badly educated. They're uneducated. I can understand that my content isn't for everyone. I enjoy making it. The people I work with enjoy it.'

She also attacks critics who have slammed her as 'disgusting', 'weird', and an example of a 'society that has lost its morals'.

'These 18-year-olds can go to the Army, they can drive, they can drink, they're choosing their careers for the rest of their life,' she says. 'If they want to use their own bodies to come and sleep with me, that is their decision.'

'We seem to say 18-year-olds don't know better. But if an 18-year-old commits a crime , the first thing they would say is that they're an adult, they should know better.

'So we seem to pick and choose when we like to treat them as kids.'

Asked about parents' concern for their young adult sons, she says: 'I can see when they think of their 18-year-old boy, they want to wrap him in bubble wrap and they think they're the most innocent sweet child that has ever existed. That's not the case.

'They're going off and they're drinking, they're doing drugs and they're having one night stands that are unprotected and they tend to be having sex when they've had drinks, under the influence.

'However, when they sleep with me, it is in a controlled environment. There is security at the door, you're filling in consent forms and you're seeing someone that gets tested for STDs on a regular basis and is also an expert in the industry. So when you word it like that and take away the taboo subject of it, you take away the shame.'

Although Blue sleeps with a diverse range of men of all races, ages and appearances, she does not deny that her most prolific and controversial content involves sex acts with 'barely legal' teenagers.

'There's two reasons,' she argues. 'One: the teen category has been the most searched category online for a very long time, people have always done schoolgirls. And I was like, there's a gap in the market for someone being with a schoolboy. If that's how we want to word it.

'From a business point of view, I knew there was a massive, massive gap that I could [exploit]. And sleeping with 18-year-olds makes the content a lot more relatable to the subscribers, who are younger.'

Asked if she would let her son or a young male relative of hers sleep with a sex worker on camera, she responds with an emphatic 'Yes'.

'If I had a brother or cousin or whoever, and they went with a sex worker, I know they are about to have a good night because [sex workers] focus on pleasure and a good experience.'

Bonnie says she takes safeguarding 'very seriously' and makes her 'co-stars' sign two consent forms for OnlyFans. They must also confirm that they have not taken drugs or consumed any alcohol within the last 24 hours, and must have their photograph taken alongside their government-approved ID.

At the Nottingham freshers fortnight, she says she slept with 158 different men over the course of two weeks, which - she admits - was exhausting.

'There's not much time between people and definitely, towards the end, you're getting a bit tired. But when you see they're so excited it recharges my batteries.'

Bonnie says that she ensures she gets plenty of sleep before embarking on her marathon sex sessions and makes meticulous preparations.

'I will take some cranberry tablets to avoid a UTI, a good lot of water and I probably won't have had sex for a few weeks before to make sure I'm ready and wanting sex,' she says. 'And, of course, I shave my legs.'

She now plans to beat the world record for the most men slept with in 24 hours. This accolade is currently held by an American adult film star called Lisa Sparks, who bedded 919 men in a day.

Bonnie says: 'I plan to do 1,000 in 24 hours to beat the world record. I'll need a lot of pain killers and a hot water bottle after that.'

The woman attempting to achieve this improbable feat grew up on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border, the loving daughter of an 'ordinary couple' who have been married for decades.

She did well at school, began dating a long-term boyfriend aged 14, and planned to be a midwife. She worked full-time on the minimum wage in her local Poundstretcher, before getting a job in a recruitment agency.

Now she says she is earning £540,000 a month as an adult film star, after starting her own OnlyFans account last year when her relationship ended after nine years.

'The ex-boyfriend is really proud,' she says. 'We didn't have a bad breakup. We are still really good friends.'

Her mum and dad were less open-minded when they found out about their daughter's new career choice after one of her sex tapes was sent to them.

'They were shocked, but not disappointed,' says Bonnie. 'I think, because I'd gone from an office business job to then suddenly [becoming] a sex worker, in their eyes I was a prostitute.

'But it just showed me how much I needed to teach them. For the older generation it's so new. Now they're so supportive, it's changed their life completely for the better. They go on lovely holidays. They have no money problems.

'They don't work and they don't have a mortgage. My mum works for me. My mum makes signs for me to hold on camera and books my appointments. She was even handing out condoms to students for marketing.'

Bonnie recently recruited a former special forces soldier as a bodyguard after a terrifying incident in which she was confronted by two men in ski masks who stole her mobile phone. He now stands guard over the room where she works.

Despite this episode, she insists that she feels 'safer' in this job than any she has done before.

'I feel so much safer doing this job now than in my last one,' she says. 'The men have got respect for me, or they follow me, or they're a fan. We have a videographer in the room and I now have security with me.'

The articulate blonde-haired, blue-eyed young woman in front of us seems remarkably comfortable in her own skin. However, she hasn't always felt so body confident.

'When I was younger I wouldn't get changed in front of people or post bikini photos,' she says. 'I've always been quite reserved. So I never would have pictured myself as a sex worker. But it's giving me so much confidence.

'When you have thousands of people saying 'You're beautiful', 'I love the way you look', 'I love the way your body is', it sort of makes you think: I am beautiful.'

Bonnie has previously caused controversy by revealing she sleeps with married men. But she says she doesn't feel guilty because if 'the wife's not bothered about having intercourse or having an intimate relationship', then they should be glad they're sleeping with her, and not someone else.

'If that's the case, the men are going to cheat whether you like it or not,' she says. 'They are the statistics and that is what people do. And I also think they deserve to enjoy sex.

'It's a natural instinct to want to have sex, so if wives aren't going to pleasure husbands, let them go elsewhere. There's no intimacy, I can't remember their face by the end of the night.

'If they're not sleeping with me, they're probably having an affair in the office or in the gym. With me it's just an act, I am a girl that sleeps around a lot. The husbands and partners mean nothing to me.'

Bonnie does hope to find a husband of her own one day and admits she wouldn't want him to sleep with another woman. But she hasn't had any luck since finding success in her newfound career.

'My dating has been non-existent,' she says. 'I'm in no rush to get into a relationship; I did date at the start of this year but then my job was an issue and I wasn't ready to listen to his advice and give it up.

'I don't worry that I won't find love, but the dating pool has definitely got a lot smaller.'

For now, she is going to concentrate on making her OnlyFans account the biggest in the world but there is something new she would like to try her hands at: reality TV.

'I really want to go on I'm A Celeb,' she said. 'I used to tell my parents that's what I'd do when I was young.'

With that, our interview is over. As we get up to leave, she looks Grant up and down and says: 'I'm not used to seeing men with so many clothes on!'