It’s your typical Cinderella story. Girl is cleaning for her keep and then stumbles sideways into her Prince Charming—except that “Prince Charming” in this instance is an adults-only content creation platform. Not too long ago, Lily Phillips could be found scrubbing office floors, but now she’s breaking records on OnlyFans and making millions. The British office-cleaner-turned-notorious-porn-star is self-proclaimed to be “Britain’s biggest slut,” a title of which she’s quite proud. Her rise to fame has been a wild ride, one that has relied heavily on controversy in order to get her squarely at the top of the adults-only content creation game.
While many of us by now are quite familiar with Lily’s shenanigans, mass sex stunts aren’t always how she’s earned her bread. When first finding her footing as an adult in this world, Phillips went to work for the family business as an office cleaner. She was scrubbing offices for roughly £15 per hour and eventually got bored of scrubbing someone else’s toilets. Enter the world of adults-only content creation! In her first year alone, Phillips made $300,000 simply by creating an OnlyFans page, sharing content, and charging subscribers for the pleasure of viewing the work she’s done. And that snowball is gathering speed because she’s made $1.5 million in the past year by creating explicit content for adults on OnlyFans.
The secret sauce for Phillips? Scandal. The more outrageous her behavior, the more she makes the headlines. The more she makes headlines, the higher her subscriber count goes. Example: In the fall of 2024, Phillips put on a mass sex stunt in which she had sex with 101 men in less than 24 hours, all for clout and content. It worked—her subscriber count shot up with OnlyFans users eager to catch a peek of the orgy footage she captured that day. Even though that particular incident resulted in Phillips breaking down in tears on camera when the event was done, she shortly after announced her plans to try and sleep with 1,000 men in a day. That little announcement of hers was met with mixed reactions. Some fans were impressed and rooting for her, some critics were more horrified than they’d ever been before, and some were just deeply concerned for Phillips’ well-being.
Currently, Phillips’ plans to have sexual encounters with 1,000 men in a day are on pause. Lily is abroad and has been spending time here in the United States, where such activities are more than a little frowned upon. Should she follow through with her intention of having a 1,000+ person orgy while in the U.S., she risks being deported, which is more than just a little bit of a bummer. Legality aside, there is another elephant lurking in the room: Physically and mentally, Lily? Are you okay? After the emotional turmoil of her first orgy in the fall, then the physical fallout of dealing with a host of STDs that she wasn’t aware she was contracting and spreading, is it maybe time to lean into this temporary hiatus? At what point is it time to acknowledge that what was once empowering has become a performance that is acted out with far too high a personal cost? One thing is for certain: Lily Phillips has come a long way from the days of vacuuming after someone else’s day in the office, proving that there’s more than one way to clean up—even if you need extensive therapy to reconcile how you made those millions.
