00s child star giving fame ‘one last shot’ with acting comeback funded by OnlyFans-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro

Megan Prescott first soared to fame in teen drama Skins (Picture: Jo Hale/Getty Images)

Skins star Megan Prescott is funding her upcoming one-woman Edinburgh Fringe show by selling full-frontal pictures on OnlyFans for the first time.

The 32-year-old became a 00s child star after playing identical twin Katie Finch in the teen drama that also starred Kaya Scodelario and Nicholas Hoult.

Based on her own experience of fame, the production sees Megan play a fictionalised version of herself, an actress whose career ‘peaked’ in 2009 but wants to give mainstream success ‘one last shot.’

To pay for the show, Megan said she would sell 10 head-to-toe naked pictures on OnlyFans, the X-rated content site she joined during the pandemic.

She told the Edinburgh Evening News: ‘I’m delighted to be able to use my Only Fans platform to raise awareness of my Edinburgh show. Plus I really do need the money to pay for producing the show.

‘Even selling these limited-edition images will only raise half the money needed to put on a month-long show.’

In the show, titled Really Good Exposure, Megan plays Molly, with the audience first meeting her later down the line as she realises her career has never matched the dizzying heights of her initial fame.

Standing on the edge of her 30s, Molly looks towards the adult industry to keep food on the table when acting work continually isn’t paying her bills.

Of the show, Megan said: ‘I am immensely proud to use my own lived experience of these industries to highlight the inconsistencies of how we treat workers based on outdated societal stigma and our own internal bias.

‘We’ve been inundated with portrayals of sex work in the media, often in projects that had absolutely no input from sex workers themselves.

Megan worked as a stripper and as an OnlyFans creator after the show (Picture: Jeff Spicer/WireImage)

‘We’ve also seen a number of news stories and documentaries come out recently which highlight the ugly side of the acting industry, but actors aren’t often able to speak out for fear of being ostracised and losing work.’

Prior to joining OnlyFans, Megan said she worked as a stripper in her early 20s and was concerned punters would recognise her from Skins.

She previously told The Sun: ‘I was terrified when I was first doing stripping that it would ruin my acting career but, you know what, at that time I wasn’t getting a whole lot of acting work.’

Over the pandemic, Megan was able to use her role in Skins to her advantage, joining OnlyFans to keep her going while the arts industry took a hit.

She told the publication in 2022: ‘If it wasn’t for OnlyFans I wouldn’t have been able to survive the last two years without working seven days a week in menial jobs.’

Megan starred alongside her twin sister Kathryn (Emily Fitch) in Skins, which ran from 2007 to 2013 on Channel 4.

The series became a huge success, making stars of actors including Dev Patel (Anwar Kharral) and Daniel Kaluuya (‘Posh’ Kenneth).

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