Real reason why Harry Potter star Jessie Cave has decided to do ‘fetish content’ on OnlyFans

We've seen a number of famous faces sign up to create content on the popular social media platform, Only Fans, ever since it first launched back in 2016.

From Lily Allen's OnlyFans account, FTSE500, which is completely dedicated to her feet all the way through to Olympian pole vaulter Alysha Newman - it's clear that celebrities across the globe haven't been shy when it comes to joining the platform, which currently boasts more than 220 million registered users and over three million registered creators.

Now, while the subscription-based platform where users pay for content from creators is most known for its sexually explicit content, it also has a number of other content creators who do far less X-rated stuff, including none other than Harry Potter star Jessie Cave, who has revealed exactly why she started her journey on OnlyFans in the first place.

Speaking on her Before We Break Up Again podcast, Cave - who starred as Ron Weasley's love interest, Lavender Brown, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - explained her reasons for signing up, telling listeners: "I’m launching an OnlyFans, it’s not a sexual one. It’s a fetish. Fetish doesn’t necessarily mean sexual."

She revealed she would be leaning into the ASMR side of things as she will be offering paid subscribers 'the best quality hair sounds' and sharing 'very sensual stuff'.

In case you're not in the know, ASMR - which stands for 'Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response' - refers to a pleasant, tingling sensation that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine some people experience when watching and listening to videos with particular sounds.

She continued: "It's very much geared toward people who have an interest or fetish with hair. I do a lot of videos with my hair on Instagram and I have now for a while. I just noticed that I always get comments.

"They’re never sexually depraved or lascivious. It's never dirty comments, but I do get lots of interest in the hair thing and I just thought, 'F**k it, I'm going to do something that is very niche.'"

Guess you could call that OnlyStrands.

In another moment, she revealed the decision to join the website has been 'liberating', explaining: "I really am choosing to think of this as an empowering moment for me because I have been this very straight, prim actress for a lot of my career and this is very much a way of me saying, 'Okay, I'm doing something that is not normal. This is weird and me and a bit kinky. And why not?'"

The actress and mum-of-four has also given more insight into her decision to join OnlyFans on her Substack newsletter where she explained a little more behind her reasoning to sign up to the platform, saying she'll try it out for a year to help fund home improvements and 'get out of debt' - as well as 'empowering' herself.

She wrote: "One year. I’ll try for one year. My aim? To get the house safe, cover the arsenic/lead wallpaper, build a new roof etc.

"My aim? To get out of debt. My aim? To empower myself? To prove to those in the past who have misjudged me that I’m not so sweet? To put time into something I never invested in before: self-love.

"Were my years of Harry Potter conventions in fact research? [It feels] like I’m doing something naughty, something a little f**ked up. I like that. Ripping up the good little actress rule book."