Megan Prescott, known for playing Katie Finch in the cult Channel 4 series Skins, has revealed that her OnlyFans earnings are three times what she made from the show. The 35-year-old actress told The Sun that she joined the platform in 2020 with only £300 to her name, after years of struggling to make ends meet in acting.
OnlyFans earnings dwarf Skins pay
Prescott, who appeared in 16 episodes of the noughties drama alongside her twin sister Kathryn, said the financial difference between her time on Skins and her current work on OnlyFans is “stark.” She charges £11 per month for nude content and personalised subscriber videos on the platform.
“I’d spent so many years in acting, trying to get things moving and nothing [was] happening,” Prescott told The Sun. “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.”
Pandemic-era pivot from zero-hours work
When Prescott signed up to OnlyFans in 2020, she was working at a distillery on a zero-hours contract. Friends had suggested the platform because her explicit Skins scenes were already circulating online for free. She said the move allowed her to continue pursuing acting but on her own terms, giving her the freedom to engage in her own creative projects.
“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,” she said.
Criticism of Skins' treatment of teen actors
Prescott has previously criticised the British drama for “sexualising her” as a teenager. She was 16 when she starred in the show and filmed explicit scenes with an actor almost double her age. Speaking to Cosmopolitan, she said: “I’m treated better on OnlyFans than I was on Skins,” adding that people thought the 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.”
Prescott’s remarks come amid a broader trend of former TV stars finding greater financial success on subscription platforms, as highlighted by a former WWE star earning more on OnlyFans than during her wrestling career.
