This Morning star issues 7-word statement over 'shamed' Bonnie Blue's 1000 men sex stunt

Ashley James, who took connected arguable enactment idiosyncratic Bonnie Blue connected This Morning, confesses successful an exclusive interrogation that she loves challenging 'toxic' views connected the telly

Known for sharing her outspoken opinions arsenic a regular impermanent connected This Morning, Ashley James admits she has perfectly nary plans to code down erstwhile it comes to those fiery TV debates – and as she tells OK!, she’s doing it each for her children.

The 37-year-old TV property and erstwhile exemplary got her archetypal sensation of fame arsenic a formed subordinate of Made In Chelsea, but these days she is much often seen alongside Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard connected This Morning, wherever she reviews the news, advocates for women and is frequently unfastened astir her ain struggles done motherhood, intelligence wellness and everything successful between.

“I consciousness precise privileged to beryllium connected This Morning – it’s 1 of the astir breathtaking daytime shows and I emotion everyone I enactment with,” says Ashley, arsenic we chat astatine the London premiere of Cirque Du Soleil’s caller show, Corteo. “I’ve learned truthful overmuch from Cat and Ben – they’re astonishing and person been truthful nice. I’ve known Ben for years but I’d ne'er met Cat earlier doing the amusement and she’s got specified a friendly, astonishing energy. She treats everyone the aforesaid from the greenish country to the acceptable and is simply a joyousness to enactment with. She’s besides 1 of my puerility crushes!”

Ashley isn’t acrophobic to situation her chap celebrities connected their much arguable views – thing she prides herself on. From clashing with OnlyFans prima Bonnie Blue, who made headlines past period by claiming to person had enactment with “1,000 men successful 1 day”, to condemning influencer Andrew Tate, Ashley says she’s keen to amended others astir “toxic” views. “I americium truly passionate astir things similar this,” she says.

“I was truly grateful for the accidental to get to talk to Bonnie Blue [during an interrogation connected This Morning]. She’s evidently making waves connected societal media and possibly a batch of adults and parents mightiness not beryllium alert of what’s going on. So I deliberation it opened a truly important speech and I felt similar she’d ne'er truly been challenged before. Yes, she’s been shamed, but I wasn’t truly funny successful shaming her oregon her promiscuity. I’m much acrophobic astir the messaging she’s putting retired there. It tin beryllium truly damaging and toxic.”

Speaking precocious past year, pursuing her statement with Bonnie, Ashley said, “My contented with Bonnie is not that she has decided to spell connected to OnlyFans oregon that she has decided to person enactment with tons of antithetic people, due to the fact that who are immoderate of america to judge? The contented I person with her – and based connected the comments and feedback I received aft our This Morning interview, the contented galore radical person with her – is that she has go a benignant of poster miss for incel civilization by reinforcing a patriarchal modular and anticipation that guys request loads of sex, and if women don’t delight them it is wrong a man’s rights to look elsewhere.”

Ashley, who has 2 children – Alfie, four, and 23-month-old Ada – with her spouse Tommy Andrews says having kids has made her each the much passionate astir challenging damaging viewpoints. “As a mum I’m astir apt much acrophobic astir the aboriginal and however it’s looking,” she says. “I consciousness similar I’m disquieted not lone for my daughter’s aboriginal but besides for my son’s. In a world wherever there’s truthful overmuch online influence, there’s a emergence successful misogyny, radical similar Andrew Tate, accrued entree to porn – I deliberation we’d beryllium silly not to interest astir boys arsenic overmuch arsenic girls."

She adds: "I’ve been made to beryllium passionate by different chapters successful my beingness too. Like, I retrieve being azygous successful my thirties and child-free and determination was a batch of judgement, shame and societal expectations astir that earlier I met my partner. Naturally, anyone feels unit arsenic they get older and are single, but I truly effort to look into that and situation it. I deliberation we should ne'er justice ourselves by outdated timelines. We are surviving successful a clip wherever we person prime and state to bash immoderate is close for us.”

Reflecting connected however she deals with the antagonistic aspects of being successful the nationalist eye, she says, “In a way, the amended you do, the much you’re exposed to trolling and backlash. I’ve learned to not fto different people’s issues interaction maine due to the fact that I conjecture that’s what it is – trolling and worldly is their unhappiness projected connected to you. I’ve learned not to fto it fuss me. I effort to absorption connected raising women up and not conscionable women. I similar to deliberation that I combat societal injustice.”

Ashley has been upfront astir the challenges facing caller parents, antecedently admitting that her beingness did consciousness alternatively “boring” erstwhile Alfie was a newborn. “I’d dread being connected my ain with him for agelong periods,” she said. “I felt similar I’d ruined my life.” But present he’s older, she says she adores hanging retired with Alfie and having amusive unneurotic – though she does emotion getting her gladsome rags connected occasionally.

“I’m retired with friends tonight,” she says. “It’s important to retrieve that you merit things arsenic good due to the fact that you springiness truthful overmuch to the kids and to work. It’s hard to juggle it all, but you bash your best.” Between parenting 2 young children and warring the bully combat connected TV, we’d accidental Ashley deserves the nighttime off.