Megan Prescott, who played Katie Finch in the Channel 4 series Skins, has revealed that her earnings from OnlyFans are three times what she made during her time on the show. The 35-year-old actress said she had just £300 to her name when she joined the platform in 2020, while working at a distillery on a zero-hours contract after years of struggling to make ends meet as an actor.
Financial difference described as 'stark'
Prescott, who appeared in 16 episodes of the noughties drama alongside her twin sister Kathryn, told The Sun the financial difference was 'stark'. She said: 'I'd spent so many years in acting, trying to get things moving and nothing [was] happening.'
'Going on OnlyFans and realising all this content that I was making for free, people would pay for and people would like to pay for, just changed my entire point of view and it really did improve my creative outputs,' she added.
Friends suggested the platform
Prescott said friends had suggested the platform, where she charges £11 per month for nude content and personalised subscriber videos, because her explicit Skins scenes were already circulating online for free.
She said she is still pursuing acting, but OnlyFans has given her the freedom to do so on her own terms and engage in her own creative pursuits. She said: 'I do think we are going to see more and more mainstream actors turning to making their own productions for things like OFTV [a free video platform featuring original content by OnlyFans creators] because it's just a liberty that you don't get.'
Criticism of Skins
The actress previously criticised Skins for 'sexualising her' as a teenager, having starred in the show when she was 16 and filmed explicit scenes with an actor almost double her age. She told Cosmopolitan: 'I'm treated better on OnlyFans than I was on Skins,' adding that people thought actors made more money than they actually did.
'We worked it out by the hour once, and it was minimum wage,' she said. 'Of course, £400 a week to a 16-year-old I was like, "I'm rich." But when you look back… Our contracts also meant we don't see any money from any streaming platforms.'
