This Morning viewers hit out at ITV for ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’ as a former navy sailor bragged about trading the military for selling his socks on OnlyFans. 

ITV hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley were joined by self-made millionaire Zak Blackman on Tuesday – as he opened up on how he pulls in £30,000 a WEEK. 

Instead of throwing his worn socks in the laundry, Zak, 23, who will appear on the new series of Olivia Attwood’s ITV documentary Getting Filthy Rich, flogs them online for up to £1,500 a pair to his band of devoted followers online. 

Despite being the first person to be fired from the Royal Navy for making adult content on subscriber site OnlyFans, Zak, who has also worked alongside Britain’s Got Talent judge KSI and posed with him on Instagram, now owns a penthouse apartment and a sports car. 

Opening up to Cat, 49, and Ben, 51, Zak said: ‘I joined the Navy when I was 18 – and I was in for three years… I expected to be there potentially for a career, a lifetime. 

‘Life just switched… by the end of it, I’d had enough. I started OnlyFans in the Navy in my last three months and I just thought: “This is where [the money] is”.’

This Morning viewers hit out at ITV for ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’ as a former navy solider bragged about trading the military for selling his SOCKS on OnlyFans

ITV hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley were joined by self-made millionaire Zak Blackman on Tuesday – as he opened up on how he pulls in £30,000 a WEEK

After it was discovered he had an OnlyFans account that he was posting content from filmed on the ship Zak was stationed on, the youngster was asked to leave. 

‘It was the money and the freedom, and me being my own boss, that I loved, I’d had enough of the Navy by the end, and when I left, things kicked off,’ he continued. 

‘It showed me a completely different lifestyle, I was going up to Manchester on the weekends, I had group of friends there that had all done the same thing, and I saw the lifestyle, the cars, the money, and I wanted to be like that.

‘At the start my content [involved] everything and I slowly moved onto feet, and I was so shocked it was such a big market. There was a massive market for it. 

‘I realised I could sell socks for around a grand each, and I was making so much money just from selling feet pictures.

‘It was a shock, but I thought, “OK, this is my new life, this is my new career and let’s see where it takes me’, but I did not think I’d be here two years ago, it’s mad how life can switch, you can do anything if you put your mind to it.’ 

Discussing the strange requests he gets from customers, Zak continued: ‘I’d make custom videos of me just taking off my socks, a 30-second video, and I’d get a few hundred pounds from it.’

To keep his followers entertained, Zak often does ‘sock drops’, where he leaves his worn socks out in public for his fans to find, with video hints to lead them to it. 

Instead of throwing his worn socks in the laundry, Zak, 23, who will appear on the new series of Olivia Attwood’s ITV documentary Getting Filthy Rich, flogs them online for up to £1,500 a pair to his band of devoted followers online

Zak now owns a penthouse apartment and a sports car.

‘I started off leaving socks around places,’ he explained. ‘Fans would swarm there – someone told me they left their wife at home to go and collect my sock. It was crazy.’

Despite selling X-rated content, Zak insists his family are behind him, explaining: ‘A few months went by and I was helping my dad with rent, and I’d like to think that they’re proud of me now.

‘Compared to the Navy, my life is just so different – before I was working eight hours on, eight hours off, it was really strict, and now I’m working for myself. 

‘I went from being in a room living with eight different lads in an enclosed space, and now I live in a beautiful apartment in Manchester, I have my dream car, life has absolutely switched.

‘But I would never be here without the Navy because it’s taught me discipline, it’s taught me so many things that I’ve taken into civilian life – it changed me so much and I recommend it to anyone.’

Zak appeared on the show without his shoes, prompting Cat to ask: ‘Now you haven’t got any shoes on, can I just peep a look or are you going to charge me per peep?’

‘Help yourself!’ Zak joked, showing off his socks, to which Cat hit back: ‘They look like perfectly normal feet and socks to me so what’s so special about them?’   

The comments left the presenting pair laughing, but those watching the show at home did not share the same enthusiasm, taking to X, formerly Twitter, to hit out at ITV for ‘scraping the barrel’. 

Fans of This Morning took to X to complain about the segment

Ben and Cat poked fun at the way Zak was making money from his feet

‘Once again scraping the barrel with content,’ one furious viewer hit out, as another wrote: ‘What a world we live in?! Airtime for a bloke selling his socks to creeps to make money? Astonishing.’

‘Who is buying dirty socks for 30k?’ a third penned, as a fourth wrote: ‘What the F is going on here…’ and someone else chimed in: ‘Remember when This Morning used to be good?’

‘Now some of these young people and celebrities are so hungry for money that they would turn to a site like only fans to become richer. It’s sad honestly,’ another viewer added. 

Someone else wrote: ‘Perversions on #ThisMorning now. Great telly…’ as another said: ‘He’s deffo doing more on OF than changing his socks to make 30k think they missed that part out.’

One fan joked: ‘Next week “Socks on your Doorstep”, This Morning’s new game.’

Last year, This Morning viewers were appalled after a ‘delusional’ woman revealed the shocking way she makes money on OnlyFans – and compared her work to being a doctor.

Latiesha Jones, 24, appeared on the ITV show to chat about how she makes up to £20,000 a month selling her old toenails, dirty bedsheets and bottles of spit.  

The former biomedical student dreamt of becoming a doctor when she was younger, but dropped out of university in her second year after realising that her priority was making money.

This Morning viewers were appalled on Monday after a ‘delusional’ woman revealed the REVOLTING way she makes money on OnlyFans – and compared her work to being a doctor 

Latiesha Jones, 24, appeared on the ITV show to chat to Ben Shephard , 50, and Cat Deeley , 48, about how she makes up to £20,000 a month selling her old toenails, dirty bedsheets and bottles of spit

Latiesha, who has now cleared all her debt and bought her own property, was first got into the unusual business after a customer asked for her spit or shower water.

Now she helps others to make money exactly how she does by mentoring rising stars in the fetish sector. 

Latiesha explained: ‘I think I see my main goal, I’m a really caring person, so I think my goal for being a doctor came from wanting to help people.

‘I feel like I’m doing that with women now with our community, I am still helping the women because I’m opening them up to doing something safely that they would not have known about before.

‘I’m helping them make money in a way that they wouldn’t have before. 

‘In my opinion I think that it’s the same thing but in a different way. I still feel like I’m helping people, just not in a hospital.’ 

She was joined by Freya Ashthorpe on the sofa, who revealed that she came across her on TikTok in 2021 and wanted to follow in her footsteps.  

Freya has sold a pot of hair for  £50 and her acrylic nails for £40, while Latiesha sold her toenails for £600.  Latiesha also admitted that she doesn’t think too deeply into it. 

Read More

This Morning viewers appalled as ‘delusional’ woman reveals REVOLTING way she makes cash on OnlyFans

‘People will say like “You can get framed for a crime, they’re cloning you,”‘ she told the hosts.

‘I don’t really think too much into it, I’m like “You sell your clothes on Vinted or eBay or wherever, people are still getting a part of you.

‘You might leave your sweat on there. You might leave something on the clothes that you necessarily know of.’ 

Ben pointed out that she thinks that selling clothes on a second hand app isn’t that different to what she is doing.

She replied: ‘Yeah, maybe I’m being slightly a little bit naïve. I don’t know how far people think into it. 

‘I don’t really like to delve too deeply, I’m just like, well somebody else is going to do it. It may as well be me!’ 

Latiesha sells her items to a diverse customer base, from middle-aged businessmen to a university students.  

This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV1 and ITVX