Police in Sheffield are investigating after the adult entertainer Bonnie Blue was allegedly punched in the face during a late-night appearance at a city-centre nightclub, an incident that prompted a rapid police response and left organisers defending safety arrangements for a controversial “freshers” tour pitched at university towns. South Yorkshire Police said officers were called to Onyx nightclub at 1.22 a.m. on Friday, 19 September, following reports of a disturbance. “It is reported that a woman was assaulted at the nightclub, suffering no injuries,” the force said. “A woman was detained at the scene and later released. The incident has been filed pending further information coming to light.” The statement did not name the complainant, but local media identified the alleged victim as Bonnie Blue, the stage name of 26-year-old English performer Tia Billinger, who had been advertised for a student-themed event at the venue. 
Video published by The Sun appeared to show police and security intervening at Onyx and a separate confrontation in which the performer instructed security to remove a heckler. The paper reported that Blue had arrived at around 1 a.m. for what was billed as “the wildest Freshers night” and that “40 minutes later, an attendee reportedly punched her in the jaw,” before officers were seen tackling suspects inside the venue. In footage cited by the newspaper, a woman with pink hair accused Blue of “setting feminism back,” drawing a curt reply and an order from the stage to remove those involved; the tabloid reported the performer used a profane phrase as she addressed security. The Sun’s account did not specify arrests beyond those seen in the scuffles and did not report injuries to the performer beyond the initial claim that she was hit; South Yorkshire Police said the woman who was assaulted “suffered no injuries.” 
The Sheffield date formed part of a roving “Bonnie Blue Freshers Tour” promoted to students and recent school-leavers. Ticketing for the Onyx event on the Skiddle platform billed the night as a high-energy club set with “interactive mini games,” while warning participants that “No sexual behaviour is permitted inside the venue — respect others and enjoy the party the right way.” The listing emphasised a “safe space for all,” language that Onyx and city outlets highlighted earlier in the week amid questions about what the appearance would entail. The event description placed the show at Onyx on Thursday night into the early hours of Friday; the club’s address is listed on multiple venue sites as Rockingham Street, S1 4EA. 
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In the days leading up to the appearance, The Star, Sheffield’s daily newspaper, carried a preview noting the “no sex” stipulation and underlining that the club night was not billed as an adult-content production. After the incident, the paper reported the police statement in full and said it had been “reported that she had been punched in the jaw inside the club,” while reiterating that police recorded no injuries and that a woman detained at the scene was later released. The paper identified the event as part of Blue’s “Bang Bus Freshers Tour,” a marketing label that has drawn criticism from some student groups and politicians at earlier stops. 
Yahoo’s UK desk and student site The Tab both summarised the disturbance and the police response, quoting the South Yorkshire Police statement and, in The Tab’s case, carrying an eyewitness account that a woman in a queue “punched [Blue] square in the jaw.” The Tab also reported a separate security breach on another city stop in which a takeaway posted a delivery receipt online that appeared to reveal the hotel where the tour team was staying, sparking safety concerns. Blue’s team told the site the tour would continue while security procedures were reviewed. None of those details were included in the South Yorkshire Police statement about the Sheffield nightclub incident. 
The Sheffield stop came amid a broader national itinerary that has placed the performer in highly visible locations and set off recurring confrontations between supporters and critics. Earlier in the week The Sun’s Scottish editions and other outlets reported that Blue made an unscheduled appearance near Glasgow’s Ibrox Stadium, where she posed for photographs and distributed branded items, drawing a crowd and a mixed reaction from football supporters. Scottish university officials had earlier distanced their institutions from her planned “meet and greet” activity in the city, and Blue told the Scottish Sun she did not intend to film explicit content during campus-area visits and wanted “to have a good time and meet more people that would never be able to come to London to see me normally.” Those remarks were not repeated in Sheffield, where the club and ticketing sites stressed conventional club-night rules and safe-space language before doors opened. 
Bonnie Blue’s profile has risen sharply over the past year as she leveraged a large online following to promote club dates and provocative stunts. A biographical entry lists her as Tia Emma Billinger, born in 1999 in Nottinghamshire, active in adult content since 2023 and widely publicised for claiming to have had sex with more than a thousand men in a single day during a filmed stunt. The notoriety has led to documentary coverage and commercial partnerships as well as bans and cancelled sponsorships; this summer, several outlets reported that she was removed from OnlyFans after promoting “extreme challenge” content, while a Channel 4 documentary announcement triggered debate about the ethics and impacts of competitive-sex promotions. Those controversies framed the decision by club promoters in student cities to stress clear conduct rules as her freshers-week tour rolled south from Scotland. 
Onyx, which describes itself as a VIP nightclub with “state-of-the-art lighting” and “futuristic 3D screens,” sits on Rockingham Street near both the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University city campuses. Venue listings and city guides show the address at S1 4EA, though The Star’s story relayed the police reference to Portobello Street in its news write-up; a separate Skiddle page notes “1 Portobello Street, S1 4ND” as a venue address used for map plotting. Police did not clarify the discrepancy in their statement, which repeatedly named Onyx as the location. 
The Sun’s report on the Sheffield night included clips in which Blue engaged a critic who approached the stage and suggested she had harmed feminism, a scene that ended with security moving the woman away. The paper’s captioning said Blue told security to “get those fat f***s out,” and also carried footage that appeared to show officers taking individuals to the ground during the disturbance. The paper said the alleged punch to Blue occurred “around 40 minutes” after her arrival and that the event “descended into chaos”; neither the club nor Blue’s team issued immediate statements to confirm the timing or describe her condition. South Yorkshire Police did not list injuries to the performer. 
The Tab’s round-up, which cast the Sheffield punch and the Lincoln hotel leak as early warning signs for the tour, quoted a member of Blue’s staff saying that because of who she is, there is “always the potential to attract extreme behaviour,” and that safety is the team’s “priority.” The site said cars began circling the hotel car park within an hour of the leaked receipt post and reported that security moved the branded bus to a different location. Those claims could not be independently verified by police in Sheffield, who limited their comments to the nightclub call-out and the status of the woman detained and released at the scene. 
Before the show, local pages had primed audiences for a conventional club night. Sheffield Online and The Star both amplified the Skiddle listing’s “No sexual behaviour” notice and urged attendees to follow venue rules. That framing aligned with language Blue and her promoters used in Scotland this month, where she argued that the freshers events were designed to meet fans rather than to film sex and where universities and local politicians simultaneously warned students to steer clear. The juxtaposition—promises of safe-space clubbing against an adult-entertainment brand known for transgressive publicity—set the conditions for heated exchanges at the door and on the dance floor, punctuated in Sheffield by the alleged punch and the arrival of police. 
The police statement left open the possibility of further action if witnesses come forward or additional video surfaces. Filing the case “pending further information” is routine in incidents where complainants decline medical treatment or the evidence threshold for immediate charges is not met. The force did not list the ages of the women involved, did not identify them by name and did not specify what offence, if any, the detained woman was suspected of when she was held and released at the scene. The club did not respond on its public channels with a statement about the incident, and the Skiddle page remained live on Friday morning with the event listed under the previous night’s date. 
The tour’s next dates were still being promoted on student-facing pages on Friday, with The Tab’s network of city editions publishing maps of expected stops and promising updates from campus streets. Against that schedule, the Sheffield incident added to a brittle security environment around an entertainer who has made visibility—and the testing of public boundaries—central to her brand. For local authorities and club operators, the priority has been to keep those boundaries inside conventional licensing and safety parameters. For police, the threshold is simpler: a reported assault, a call-out to a city-centre venue and a file that will stay open if the parties or the public provide more to go on. 
What is clear from the record is narrow and specific. The event at Onyx was advertised with strict conduct language and drew a large crowd shortly after 1 a.m. Video later showed confrontations and a police intervention on the floor. South Yorkshire Police recorded a report that “a woman was assaulted,” said she suffered “no injuries,” and confirmed that “a woman was detained at the scene and later released,” with the incident filed pending further information. The performer at the centre of the night has given no statement about the alleged attack, but her tour team has told one outlet the schedule will continue as they review security. In a week that has seen the same tour ignite crowds near Scottish football grounds and draw denunciations from university officials, the picture from Sheffield—no serious injuries, no charges announced, and a tour that intends to move on—captures the collision between a high-profile online persona and the practical limits of a city-centre club night. 
