Sarah Jayne Dunn has claimed OnlyFans is ‘safer’ than working on Hollyoaks  – three-years after her saucy snaps got her axed from the Channel 4 soap.

The actress, 43, who played Mandy Richards on and off for 25-years, said she now feels more in control after previously being the victim of a terrifying stalker ordeal that saw her bombarded with ‘disturbing’ messages, that show bosses were unable to do anything about.

She told The Sun: ‘[OnlyFans] has actually been a much safer space than the likes of Instagram or TikTok or any of the other platforms that I use and that I am active on’.

‘I was getting horrendous messages on Instagram through an account, really disturbing that I went to Hollyoaks with and I contacted the police about. But they don’t do anything and they can’t do anything. And that’s terrifying.’

Sarah continued: ‘I went to Hollyoaks and it was a case of “right, just send us what he sent you'” And then I went to the police and there’s not much they can do, it’s really scary actually.’

She went on to explain how messages sent to her on OnlyFans, unlike other social media sites, are pixilated and she can now choose whether to look at them or not. 

Sarah Jayne Dunn, 43, has claimed OnlyFans is ‘safer’ than working on Hollyoaks – three-years after her saucy snaps got her axed from the Channel 4 soap

The actress, who  played Mandy Richards on and off for 25-years, said she now feels more in control (pictured on the soap)

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Sarah slammed bosses for ‘blatant hypocrisy’ after being ‘Sєxualised’ through calendar shoots on the soap.

She also revealed trolls furiously branded her ‘cheap’ for joining OnlyFans, but insists she ‘wished she’d done it sooner.’

Speaking to The Sun for their Shamed YouTube series, Sarah revealed she was branded ’embarrᴀssing’ by trolls for setting up an OnlyFans account.

She said: ‘I’d been Sєxualised and been made an object of Sєxual desire for my entire adult life.

‘To then be told I couldn’t do it on my own terms? That was really the bit that stung because it just didn’t make sense to me.’

Sarah’s exit from Hollyoaks came after an unnamed co-star logged a formal complaint, and bosses have since changed cast members’ contracts to ban them from launching their own OnlyFans.

She also vehemently disagreed with producers claims that the site’s raunchy content didn’t align with Hollyoaks’ young audience.

previously being the victim of a terrifying stalker ordeal that saw her bombarded with ‘disturbing’ messages, which bosses were unable to do anything about 

She said: ‘I was getting horrendous messages on Instagram through an account, really disturbing that I went to Hollyoaks with and I contacted the police about’. 

She went on to explain how messages sent to her on OnlyFans, unlike other social media sites, are pixilated and she can now choose wether to look at them or not (pictured on Hollyoaks) 

Sarah added that when she posed for racy calendar shoots during her time on Hollyoaks, she had ‘no control’ over the airbrushing that was done to the images, while on OnlyFans she has full say on the images she releases.

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Despite earning thousands through her OnlyFans content, Sarah said she has faced trolling from some users, especially those noting: ‘She’s a mother.’

Reading out comments she’d received, the actress noted words such as: ‘her family must be embarrᴀssed’ to ‘desperate’, ‘cheap’, ‘nasty’, ‘those pictures are embarrᴀssing’ and ‘mid-life crisis’. 

She added: ‘Trolls told me that I’ll regret it but I’m over two years down the line with OnlyFans now and I have zero regrets.

‘Actually, that’s wrong, I do have one regret: I wish I’d started it sooner!’

It was previously reported that she has made upwards of £700,000 on the platform, almost six times what she made at the height of her Hollyoaks career.

While Sarah refused to put an exact number on her earning, she admitted that it ‘exceeded all expectations’ and revealed: ‘I think my second month on the platform was better than a year on Hollyoaks.’

She pointed out that she isn’t doing anything different to what she did while on the show, limiting her content to lingerie pictures and refusing to venture into X-rated content.