Sarah Jayne Dunn is 'much more financially secure' since starting OnlyFans

Sarah Jayne Dunn is "much more financially secure" since starting OnlyFans.

The 40-year-old actress had played the role of Mandy Richardson on 'Hollyoaks' for 25 years and was dropped by bosses of the Channel 4 soap back in 2021 after deciding to sell racy pictures on the subscription service but has insisted the move worked out better for her in terms of money.

She said: "I was doing photoshoots [for 'Hollyoaks'] anyway, so I was like 'If there's a way of doing these and one making money from it and two moving it away from Instagram then that was the way forward for me. That's not the way it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened to me. So I'm much more financially secure than I have ever been."

The former soap star went on to explain that actors do not always make a great deal of money unless they hit the "big time" and added that the "beauty" of selling her risque snaps is that she does not have to go looking for work.

She told The Daily Star newspaper: "The way that these shows work is that to be making more money you need to be very, very busy and if you're not very busy then you're not making much money - at all. As an actor you don't really make very much money unless you make it big, big time. So the beauty of being more financially stable is that I'm not having to go out looking for work for the sake of looking for work."

Bosses at the Channel 4 soap had initially hoped to find a "resolution" with Sarah over the controversy, but eventually decided to terminate her contract because the show is a "youth facing drama."

In a statement, a spokesperson for the long-running series 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."