Channel 4 hit with huge blow after controversial Bonnie Blue documentary - LADbible

Channel 4 has recovered itself astatine the centre of the tempest aft airing a arguable documentary astir big contented creator Bonnie Blue, having been dealt a further stroke amid continuing backlash from viewers.

Aired past week connected the channel, the one-hour documentary chronicles big prima Bonnie Blue's (real sanction Tia Billinger) emergence to fame, arsenic good arsenic her shocking enactment stunts which included sleeping with 1,057 men successful 12 hours.

The documentary, titled 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story, was jokingly promoted arsenic being 'for each ages' by Bonnie herself, who added 'the lone regularisation is your bedtime' successful an Instagram post up of its release.

But the backlash has shown nary signs of slowing down since the programme aired, with definite advertisers seemingly little than impressed with the documentary.

Bonnie Blue joked her Channel 4 doc is 'for each ages' (bonnie_blue_xox/Instagram)

So overmuch so, that The Times reported that advertisers including Visa and Smirnoff had asked to propulsion their ads from the commercialized breaks connected the doc owed to the programme not aligning with their advertizing guidelines.

Visa confirmed to LADbible it has so had its advertisement pulled from the programme. Smirnoff did not respond to our petition for comment.

Meanwhile, Channel 4 has said it cautiously selected the ads to beryllium shown during the doc to guarantee they were 'suitable'.

"We instrumentality large attraction to guarantee that advertizing is appropriately placed crossed each programming, peculiarly wherever contented whitethorn beryllium delicate oregon perchance contentious," a spokesperson for Channel 4 told LADbible.

"In the lawsuit of 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story, the programme was reviewed successful beforehand of transmission to guarantee advertizing was suitable. Several brands and categories were excluded to debar inappropriate juxtapositions."

The broadcaster added: "Channel 4 is simply a commercially funded nationalist work broadcaster. We usage commercialized revenues specified arsenic advertizing to marque programmes that present our remit to make alteration done amusement crossed a wide scope of issues. Our programming is created independently from our commercialized operation."

The documentary has sparked rather the backlash among others too, with Children's commissioner Dam Rachel de Souza saying the programme 'risks taking america a measurement backmost by glamorising' and 'even normalising' contented that tin beryllium 'frightening, confusing and damaging' to young radical and their relationships.

Channel 4's commissioning exertion defended the doc (Channel 4)

Elsewhere, Home Office curate Katie Lam has said weighed successful connected the property restrictions successful spot connected Channel 4's ain platform, saying that they tin beryllium easy skirted by idiosyncratic pretending to beryllium implicit the property of 16 erstwhile creating an account.

"It seems bizarre to me," Lam said connected Times Radio. "There is intelligibly a consistency occupation some successful presumption of contented and successful presumption of platform."

Channel 4's Commissioning Editor Tim Hancock defended the documentary up of its release, saying that it's the network's 'job' to archer these rough, real-life stories.

"I judge it is Channel 4's occupation to archer stories similar this, trying to get down the information of the headlines. We movie existent stories successful existent time. We are precise arrogant to bash films similar this."

For her part, Bonnie Blue has called retired the treble standards erstwhile it comes to utilise one's assemblage and pushing it to its limits.

"If I was an jock and did loads of marathons, nary 1 would attraction due to the fact that they're like, 'Oh, but you're doing thing amazing'," she said successful the doc. "But due to the fact that I'm trying to propulsion my assemblage successful a enactment perspective, everyone's like, 'Woah, you've gone excessively far. That is disgusting'."

1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story is streaming connected Channel 4 now.