Outnumbered’s Tyger Drew-Honey reveals: ‘Bullies taunted me about my porn star parents’

Child star Tyger Drew-Honey, who plays Outnumbered's Jake, has revealed what it was like to grow up with porn star parents

outnumbered

by Kayleigh Dray |
Published on

After six years spent playing Jake Brockman, the eldest child in hit family show Outnumbered, Tyger Drew-Honey has turned his attention to making new documentaries.

In the upcoming series, called 'Tyger on…', the child actor investigates what it's like being a teenager in Britain today, including internet dating, body image, the 'selfie' and, perhaps most disturbingly of all, pornography.

Tyger has a very ­personal perspective on an industry ­ruthlessly targeting modern teens - and it's all due to the fact that his parents were both porn stars.

His father is Simon Honey, one of the porn industry’s most famous names both for starring in and producing porn films, while his mother Lindzi Drew was a ­glamour model, video porn star (she gave it up when Tyger was born) and the editor of porn magazine Penthouse.

Tyger-Drew Honey with Outnumbered co-stars Ramona Marquez (Karen) and Daniel Roche (Ben)
Tyger-Drew Honey with Outnumbered co-stars Ramona Marquez (Karen) and Daniel Roche (Ben)

The couple made a fortune from the porn industry, sending Tyger to Epsom College, one of the best private schools in Surrey - but, speaking with the Mail Online, Tyger has revealed that bullies taunted him over his parents' jobs.

"I didn’t react, I would laugh it off and they realised it wouldn’t work.

"I did get upset, not because of what they were saying but why they were saying it.

"Why were they trying to hurt me? It made me think they didn’t like me. That’s what I couldn’t understand; I wouldn’t want to deliberately upset someone."

Tyger insists he was never embarrassed about how his parents made their living: it’s all he ever knew.

"They were always very open with me."

Tyger Drew-Honey, all grown up

But things did get awkward when his parents found him watching porn when he was 14: "There was no shouting or anything like that, but my dad was worried that I would find something with him in it."

Now, seeing how internet porn has transformed a generation, Tyger has a very different opinion on the industry:

"When it comes to porn, the internet has changed everything,’ he says. ‘You used to have to go to a shop and buy a DVD if you wanted to watch anything like that. But now all you have to do is type some words into Google and it’s all there for you — and it’s free.

"There are not enough ­barriers to stop really young kids watching it.

"It replaces sex education and there is a whole generation who are growing up with a really warped view about what sex should be about. It feels like this generation is an accident waiting to happen because of our easy access to porn from such a young age."

Internet porn needs more barriers, to prevent young children from coming into danger

The dangers of internet porn was highlighted when Tyger interviewed a teenage girl whose boyfriend had become hooked on watching rape scenes on porn sites and then started acting out his fantasies without her consent.

He said: "She was traumatised, and it showed me that porn can ruin lives if it’s not used properly.

"It was a massive eye-opener. She was raped repeatedly by her boyfriend, but the interesting thing is she didn’t seem to have any real resentment towards him; she saw them both as victims of pornography."

Tyger On . . . begins on BBC3 on May 15 at 9pm.

Just so you know, whilst we may receive a commission or other compensation from the links on this website, we never allow this to influence product selections - read why you should trust us