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Jessie Cave became known to millions as Lavender Brown from the Harry Potter films. Her fans have been eager to connect with the former Hogwarts student, but Cave says that she was recently barred from a fan convention due to her OnlyFans account. Despite her page being non-explicit, the event deemed her presence “inappropriate” due to the family-friendly nature of the convention. However, other actors from the Harry Potter franchise were still welcomed, even though they have performed on-screen nudity and sex scenes. Double standards and the evolving reality of fan-creator economies are a very real factor to consider for celebrities who choose to start an OnlyFans page. Jessie Cave is a British actress, comedian, and illustrator who is best known for her portrayal of Lavender Brown, the over-eager girlfriend of Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. She’s been a regular at fan conventions for more than 15 years and is known for her warm interactions with fans and for fully embracing her place in the Hogwarts legacy. Cave is also a stand-up comedian, a writer, and has done extensive work in British TV and theatre. Early in 2025, Cave made the decision to join OnlyFans in order to create a new revenue stream to help with home repair costs. She also had some debt that she needed to pay down and wanted to build a stronger sense of financial security. Cave viewed the decision as a pragmatic and empowering one, seeing it as her taking control over her own finances rather than relying on her popularity from a franchise that she’s no longer creating new content for. Cave is also a mother to four children, dealing with the financial pressures that come with raising little ones. Cave’s OnlyFans page is distinctly non-explicit. According to her, she’s “just playing with my hair.” Jessie has repeatedly clarified that there’s no nudity on her page, no sexual content to be found, and no adult material available for her subscribers. Her OnlyFans page is built on simple and often playful videos and photos of hair brushing, styling, and self-care. She enjoys her chosen niche, describing it as satisfying and comforting. According to Cave, she’s just playing with her hair, which makes the decision by convention organizers to exclude her somewhat baffling. The event organizers of a major Harry Potter fan convention told Cave that she wasn’t invited specifically because of her OnlyFans and the fact that the convention was a family-friendly event. Apparently, even a non-sexual presence on a platform that is associated with adult content is considered unsuitable. Per Cave, she was surprised but not angry, saying that she’s done many conventions and has plenty of memorabilia for fans. The issue that Cave has isn’t so much that she was excluded as it is that actors who have participated in sex scenes and have done on-screen nudity were invited to the same event that she was barred from. OnlyFans’ reputation continues to overshadow the diversity of content that is available on the platform, even when creators are using it for non-sexual work the way Cave does. Why is monetizing self-produced, non-explicit content considered worse than performing scripted nudity in mainstream media? While norms are ever-changing, Cave’s exclusion from the convention shows that society still has a long way to go when it comes to how we view both platforms like OnlyFans and who is allowed to profit from their own image. The tension between traditional celebrity culture and the digital creator economy is still very present — doubly so when a woman is taking financial control of her public persona on a platform where other creators make their money by creating explicit content. As far as Cave is concerned, she sees OnlyFans as an opportunity rather than a liability. This rejection won’t define her or her feelings about her body of work.
