Jessie Cave denied at Harry Potter convention over OnlyFans

Jessie Cave, the actress who played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter films, said this month that she was denied a booking at a Harry Potter fan convention because she launched an OnlyFans account. In a post on her Substack, Cave wrote that she was told the event is a family show and that OnlyFans is "affiliated with porn," a rationale she described as baffling given that many actors who appear at conventions have acted in projects containing nudity or sex scenes.

Cave, who announced in March that she would start an OnlyFans page focused on hair-related content, said the platform is not intended to be explicit. She wrote and has said in an Instagram video that she planned to offer "the best quality hair sounds and very sensual stuff," and told her podcast that the account appeals to people with hair fetishes and is not sexual in the usual sense. Cave said she launched the page to raise money for household repairs, to eliminate debt and to empower herself after years of precarious earnings in the arts.

The actress said the convention organizers cited OnlyFans as the reason she was not booked, but she did not name the event and representatives for the convention did not provide a...