A FORMER soldier insists he’s “100 per cent straight” despite earning up to £1,000 a day as a gay porn star.
Daniel McGraffin, from Wigan, says his girlfriend is comfortable with his unusual career because he earns a fortune for “a few hours work.”
The gym-chiselled performer, whose stage name is Geordie Jackson, ended up in the porn business after spending eight months in military prison after going AWOL.
Speaking on Channel 5 documentary 'The Sex Business: Swinging Both Ways', which aired last night, he said: “I was in the artillery for six years, it was decided from when I was a kid. I just knew I was going in the army.”
However, his dream turned into a nightmare working long hours driving a JCB lorry and “barely getting any sleep.”
Daniel says he “snapped” and went “absent without leave” for 12 months.
After being released from prison, he worked odd jobs as a cleaner and a DJ before he stumbled into porn.
I did look into straight porn, in gay porn there's way less competition, and there's no money in straight porn
Daniel McGraffinHe said: “When I was working as a DJ, there was a fan of mine, a girl, who worked as a dominatrix.
“She tells me about this guy, she says he's ‘totally straight but does gay porn’.
“This is a low-budget British company. The guy rings us and says, ‘the majority of it's fake.’
“He then offered Daniel £750 for a short shoot.”
After his first lucrative outing, looking for more work, Daniel contacted high profile production company Lucas Entertainment – which eventually offered him a three year contract.
Daniel said: “I did look into straight porn, in gay porn there's way less competition, and there's no money in straight porn.
“Lucas Entertainment are the biggest gay porn company in the world. For a straight guy, there's way more money in gay porn.”
His partner Freya also told the documentary filmmakers that she doesn’t care if people think her boyfriend is gay.
She said: “It's fake. People say ‘he must be a little bit gay.’
“When he gets back (from a shoot), he doesn't want to think about anyone with a d**k.”
Freya said she would be more uncomfortable if Daniel was performing with women because, as a straight man, he could become attracted to them.
She said: “If it was straight porn, he would be attracted to the people he was working with.
“So in theory it’s still the same, but there would be potentially he's attracted to them, but that risk isn't there because it's full of men that he doesn't think are fit.
It's fake. People say ‘he must be a little bit gay.’
Daniel's partner Freya“People can sit at home and think he's gay, but he's not, so whatever."
Daniel says that when people question his sexuality it means he’s doing a good job as an actor.
He said: “People outside the industry think I must be gay. They don't know the tricks of the trade.
“They say ‘you look like you're enjoying it’. And I say, ‘thanks, that means I'm a good actor.
“If I was gay, and it's out there to the world, why wouldn't I come out?”
He adds: “'My sexual identity is straight, one hundred per cert straight.'
The former soldier says that because he has no qualifications – he also says he’s been banned from driving – there are little options for him to make a living.
He said: “I ain't smart, academically. It's either this or going to work in a warehouse, 'cause I have no qualifications.
“You need to make your money, man. I'm glad I found porn because I make more money now than I ever have.
“I'm not in it for pleasure, regardless of what anyone thinks. I'm in it because it's a well paid job, and I'm not going to make that kind of money, legally, anywhere else.”
Daniel admits that not everyone in his family knows what he does for a living.
He said: “My mum hasn't got a clue I do porn. She knows I do some kind of gay modelling, I could never tell her, she'd probably just laugh but I can't physically get it out of my mouth to her.
“I told my sisters, but Mum and Dad are different. Nannas and stuff, you don't want to know.”
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