EX-HOLLYOAKS star Sarah Jayne Dunn has claimed co-stars were left in tears after filming sex scenes on the soap.
The 41-year-old, who's now a big hit on OnlyFans, said the pressure for stars to live up to the soap's 'sexy' reputation took its toll.
Speaking on The Matt Haycox Show, she said: “With the late night Hollyoaks Later shows, there was a girl that I was living with, and she had to simulate a sex scene, and she came home crying her eyes out because the guy she was working with she felt really uncomfortable with.
"Nowadays, you have intimacy coordinators on set, but there was never any of that when I was younger and in the show.”
Sarah spent 25 years playing Mandy Richardson before being sacked because of her lucrative side hustle selling raunchy pictures.
Her exit had an air of hypocrisy about it as the soap was well-known for releasing saucy calendars and late night editions.
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Sarah said: "There was a lot of pressure put on us, there were a lot of expectations, and there was no care package put in place.
"I remember doing calendar and photo shoots with the girls for the show. Some of the girls were really upset, not wanting to do the shoots, not wanting to be there, and feeling really uncomfortable with what was expected of us.
"A couple of the girls said ‘I don’t want to be a part of this. We’re not models, we’re actors – we don’t want to get in bikinis and be on a beach having our photos taken'.
"They were basically told ‘as part of the contract you have to do these things’ and ‘if you don't do these shoots then you won’t be given other opportunities’.
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"Basically, by saying no to something they felt really uncomfortable with, they were then disregarded for things they’d’ have loved to have done.
"I think we were made to feel disposable. It was a case of, if you won’t do it – someone else will.”
Sarah hasn't looked back since leaving the programme with which she made her name.
She's exceeded her own expectations on OnlyFans and has raked in the cash ever since going full time.
She said: “When I started on OnlyFans, I didn't know if I might get one subscriber or maybe 200.
"When I launched, I remember sitting on the sofa in my kitchen, and just watching the subscribers going up, and watching the money going up, and saying to my husband ‘you’re not going to believe this'.
"I’ve never talked about figures, but after that first week, I knew I was onto something great.
"And, my second month on the platform was better than a year on Hollyoaks."
Channel 4 has been approached for a comment.
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