Gay-for-pay OnlyFans star chained to Sussex housewife 24 hours a day in Channel 4’s Handcuffed

In one of Channel 4’s more audacious reality TV offerings, an OnlyFans star who makes explicit gay content is being handcuffed to a housewife in a bid to win £100,000.

This is Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing, hosted by TV presenter Jonathan Ross, who believes that the show could “go a small way to healing a fractured Britain”.

The premise is simple: 18 Britons are paired up with a stranger they don’t know, each of whom have entirely different opinions, habits and ways of living to them.

They are handcuffed, and tested to see how long they can stay chained together. Yes, that includes eating, showering and sleeping next to each other. The winners take home £100,000. The hope is that along the way, the handcuffed pair will listen and begin to understand the lives and perspectives of their total opposites.

In last week’s first two episodes, Channel 4 viewers were introduced to Rob, a 32-year-old heterosexual OnlyFans star who makes explicit content for the gay porn industry. He’s handcuffed to Charlie, a 44-year-old prudish Sussex housewife who is far from impressed by his career choices.

While Charlie wasn’t initially told about Rob’s job, he decided to be open and be honest about the reality of his profession. 

“I’ve had many jobs in the past. And then it was just like, ‘This isn’t making me money. What can I do? So there is this website called OnlyFans,” the tattooed Rob explains to Charlie over dinner. 

“OK…” Charlie says, sounding perturbed, before Rob bites the bullet: “And I make gay porn for the gay industry.”

In the clip, Charlie describes the revelation as “a bit of a shock” before the pair opt to tell her husband, Simon. In a terse exchange, Simon calls Rob’s industry “sleazy”.

“I couldn’t give a f*** to be honest about what people think about what I do as a job,” Rob hits back. 

Charlie says she feels “really uncomfortable” in the partnership, while Simon says he is “anxious about the fallout” before crying. Charlie, in response, contemplates exiting the experiment.

The episode ended with a cliffhanger, leaving viewers uncertain whether Rob and Charlie would be able to put their huge differences aside and continue on.

There’s hope still yet, as in a statement ahead of the show premiering, Rob said that the experience could lead to strangers becoming “great friends”.

He said that he was surprised “that two people, living two completely different lives worlds apart can become great friends”.

He added: “We put our judgements aside and listened to our hearts.”

Elsewhere in the toe-curling episode, Charlie had to wear a blindfold while Rob showered and worried about how she would wash, telling the cameras: “I don’t even like my husband seeing me with nothing on.”

In a press statement when Handcuffed was announced last year, Jonathan Ross said the the bizarre show might be able to encourage people to understand each other better.

“I believe this experiment will go a small way to healing a fractured Britain; after all, to know is to love,” he said. “I’m rooting for our couples to go the distance and not let our differences overpower us.”

Episode three of Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing airs on Channel 4 at 9pm.

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