He’s one of Brazzer’s biggest stars. His knob is insured for a million quid. Oh, and he’s a dad-of-three who takes a break from shagging to play golf on the weekend. Yeah, we just had to have that chat…
“The porn thing, yeah, it all started a long, long time ago,” says Lee in his colloquial down-the-pub tone. He’s the type of bloke you’d get six pints deep with and have such a laugh chatting about random shit you’d neglect to even ask what he does for a living. “We’re going back nearly 23 years,” he says. “I was on a lad’s holiday, Ibiza. Got absolutely rip-roaring drunk, then all of a sudden the lads burst through the door with a camera thinking it's hilarious and whilst stood there with my old boy out and yeah, that was that. Three months later, the shot was put on a swinger's website and I'm getting all these blokes messaging me saying, ‘Do you wanna come and bang my misses’? I was 18 at the time, going, ‘What the hell is this’? I was looking at the pictures and they were mostly women in their late forties and I'm thinking, ‘God, that's old. Nah, I'm good’. And then all of a sudden an email came up and it was a gentleman who was like, ‘Look, would you be interested in doing a porn scene with my wife? We're starting a new website’. And this was before the web took off in terms of porn. It was all DVDs and stuff like that. And I remember opening the attachment and going, ‘Bloody hell’. My hormones were everywhere.
“I’ll be honest, I thought it was a joke at first. I made the couple come and meet me at a dogging site in Derby. I put my trackie on, thought I’d go for a run and jogged up to the McDonald’s right across the road from the park. And there they were, in a Ford Mondeo. I was like, ‘Oh shit, I've got to do this now’. So that was it. In the back of the car, I did a scene and he was like, ‘Do you wanna do it again next week’? So I said, ‘Yeah, sure, great’. And that was it. I just started shooting for this company. I was working for a railway company at the time. The work was boring, I was fed up. But shooting porn scenes, I began to make great money for just an hour a night. I thought, ‘This is brilliant. I'm taking this opportunity’. They offered me a full-time contract to leave the railway and I was with them for three years.
“Eventually, I got bored going to the same location every day, Monday to Friday. A lot of the girls were saying to me, ‘You could do really well, you could shoot all over Europe’. I fancied a bit of that, so I went freelance for a year. It was stressful and hard work. I shot for UK companies a lot, plus a lot of the other work was in Budapest. I was taking every scene that was offered and sometimes I was doing 35, 40 scenes a month. I was knackered. A mate in England was going to America and getting married. So he goes, ‘Come out for my wedding’. I flew out to America for his wedding and ended up staying out here. It all started when I got offered a scene for Brazzers. We’re going back 17 years and they weren’t a big company. I’d never heard of them. When they first approached me to do a scene I said, ‘I'm alright thanks, I've just come off doing 40 scenes this month, I'm good’. And they said, ‘Look, you're sure’? And I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, I'm fine’. But two days later, I got bored. I was the third wheel. My mate had just got married and I was thinking, ‘This is a bit crap’. And then Brazzers hit me up again and said, ‘We've got a cancellation, you sure you don't want to take this gig’? I went, ‘Yeah, you know what, I'll do it’.
“I’ll never forget my first scene for Brazzers. They flew me to Vegas to shoot with a lady called Misty. In the script, I’d broken my leg and she was helping give me a bed bath. And I remember the director saying, ‘Stay in character’, and I was like, ‘Okay, got it’. So I'm on crutches, legs broken, all this stuff, and I’m doing the whole scene on one leg because he told me, ‘Oh, you broke your leg and you stay in character’. At the end, he went, ‘That was amazing, can I ask you why you didn't put your leg down for the whole scene’? I said, ‘You told me I'd broken it’. He said, ‘No, you could’ve put it down for the shagging part’. And then he went, ‘Can you stay for the rest of the week’? The week turned into 17 years. I’ve been with them ever since.”
Keiran says he doesn’t suffer the flops in erh, high pressure situations.
“I've done, I dunno, six and a half thousand odd scenes and it's just natural,” he says. “If you think about how many hours that is, well, it's at least 6,000 hours of fucking, so a bit of wear and tear. I try to look at my old boy as a classic motor now. Do you know what I mean? You don't want to take him out too many times. You just want to enjoy the ride.”
What goes into making a good adult star then? Do you just need a big knob, or is there more to shagging than size?
“You’ve gotta keep yourself in shape,” says Lee. “I mean, you've got the likes of Johnny Sin who's ripped like a Greek God and I can’t compete with him in the abs department. I've always just been your average lad. But I do keep myself in shape. I like my football, but I'm not one of these blokes who goes to the gym and lifts weights. I've always been natural, whereas a lot of guys in the business are on the juice. I love going out for a curry. I’ve always marketed myself as the bloke next door. Yeah, I've got a big old boy on me, it does the job, but I want to be relatable to people and that's how I've always done it.”
Keiran married fellow porn star Kirsten Price and says their relationship is like any other couple with kids.
“We've been married for 11 years now, together 14,” he says. “We've got three beautiful kids and we’re just a regular family. People might think we must be having crazy swinging parties, but the reality is far from it. A few years ago, we did a Christmas dinner at mine and there were girls from the porn industry there. I remember posting a picture online and all the comments were like, ‘Oh, I bet there was a crazy orgy going on after Christmas dinner’. It made me laugh because it was literally just like any other Christmas where everyone sat on the sofa eating chocolate and watching shit movies. That's just how life is. It’s no different to Dave the builder who goes out to work and then comes home and goes to the pub. People have this perception of porn stars, but think about it, if you’re a footballer and you’ve been kicking a ball all day, you’re not gonna go home and play football. You might have a kick about in the garden and stuff like that, but you're not going full throttle or having a game. People have separate lives. A lot of people in the industry are in serious relationships and they lead normal lives. There are a lot of porn stars with families and they just do the normal stuff. There's a couple in the industry who live five minutes away and they've got kids of a similar age and it's like, ‘Oh, do you want to go to Kids Empire this weekend’? Outside of work it's just very standard stuff.
“When it comes to working, sex is just that- work. It’s nothing. It's like, ‘Okay, we've got camera crews here, we've got the lighting guys there, you've got makeup, we've got sound’. But at home I don’t have to do anything for the camera. I can just enjoy the moment with my wife. We enjoy the moment and that's our time.
“Yeah, I definitely enjoy my work. I’d be crazy if I didn’t. But there have been instances when I’ve worked with a certain girl and blokes go, ‘You've worked with such and such, she must be amazing’, and I'm thinking, ‘She was a pain in the ass that day’. If I’m not particularly attracted to the girl, I just focus on the bits I do like, or I look on my phone to get my edge and away I go. When I get home to my wife, I know the things she enjoys, and she knows what I like and we’re in unison and that’s that. It's just like any normal fumble in the bedroom at home.
“All the girls who are under contract with Brazzers are fantastic and we work together regularly. They’ve just got great personalities. It's not about who's the hottest, it’s more about who you get along with on set. When you’re filming it’s just in and out. That's our job, we're gone. There are certain people I can work with and then just go out and have a normal laugh and joke with them after.”
Lee says he misses home and plans to return to Derby to settle down.
“It was really, really miserable out here at first and I missed home massively,” he says. “The visa application was a nightmare. I couldn't go home for Christmas or birthdays and there was no WhatsApp or FaceTime, just weekly phone calls. But I had help in the form of Vinnie Jones. I'll never forget how much he and his wife did for me. They invited me over for Christmas with me when I would’ve been sitting on my own. They were like, ‘Don't be silly, you're coming round ours’. I’ll always be indebted to Vinnie and his wife, because I went through a dark time when I first came out here.
“He lost his wife Tanya recently and she was one of the nicest ladies you'll ever meet. Absolute heart of gold. And Vinnie, as much as he has this tough guy image, is one of the biggest softies you'll ever meet. He's an absolute genuine bloke.
“When I married my wife I got my green card and that helped massively because I could go back to the UK when I wanted. I would fly back just to go watch the football if Derby were playing in a certain game. And now I plan to move the family back to Derby with me and revolutionise the adult industry in the UK. Porn has never been treated as a job In England, it’s mostly just a bloke with a camcorder in a room. Over here it’s completely different, there are major parties, film crews, stylists, it’s a different level. My goal is to bring that to the UK. Hopefully then people won't frown upon it so much because they’ll see that it’s a safe environment. The testing standards in the US are out of this world. We get tested every 10 days and you can’t work unless you’ve got a pass. Everybody's in the system. I could look you up and it'll show me either a green tick which means you're good to work or a red cross, which means you either had a bad result or you haven't tested. I've been in this game for 23 years and I've never had a bad test. Ask your local bloke down the boozer who has one night stand every weekend, chances are he could be riddled and he's down the crack clinic every other month.”
Lee’s penis is insured for a million dollars. Yep!
“The million dollar penis thing was a marketing idea from Brazzers,” he says. They came to me one day and said, ‘Look, Beckham's had his right foot insured, JLo has a price tag on her ass...let's do your penis’. I think it started out as a joke in the office because I would always be the guy to save the day if there was a scene that needed doing. It was like, ‘If Keiran ever breaks his dick we’re fucked, let’s get it insured’.
“I actually had to go to Lloyd's of London and do a medical to get the insurance certificate. The only thing they wouldn’t insure my old boy for is loss. When they told me that, I was like, ‘Yeah, that's fine, how am I going to lose my knob’? They said, ‘Well, if somebody was to cut it off’. I thought, ‘Well that's not loss really is it? It's theft’.
Jokes aside, I've got to thank my penis for my lifestyle. Without it, I’d be stuck in Derby working on a railway track. I've been lucky enough to move to America and meet the woman of my dreams and I've got three of the most beautiful kids you could ever ask for.
“The only downside to my life is being misjudged by outsiders. My kids are innocent as the day comes and I never want them to be judged on my work. That's the one thing that can be a little disheartening. I’ve had banks close my accounts for no reason, people taking charity then disassociating themselves once they find out what I do for a living. I pay my taxes and everything is accounted for. And yet HSBC closed my account one day without good reason. But most people are supportive, especially once they get to know me and my family.
“My son is 10 and my daughter's just turned 10. We’ve not had the conversation about my job yet, but I think it's getting close to that call. When we go out to Disney or we’re in a restaurant, people will come up to me and ask for a picture. And now my son's at that age where he's kind of, ‘Why are they asking for a picture’? I try to make a joke of it and brush it off, but I think in a couple of years, I’m going to have to sit him down and say, ‘Look, daddy does movies for adults. It's not for your eyes. You shouldn't see it’. And that's how the conversation should start. And then obviously the older he gets, the more progressive the conversations will become. He knows not to watch scary movies, I say, ‘Oh, you can't watch that, it's a scary movie, you'll get scared’. Well, the same thing applies, it’ll be, ‘You can't watch these movies, they're for adults only’.
“I wouldn't want my son to follow in my footsteps, purely because I don't believe the opportunity is there for him to make the career that I've had. I’ve had a lot of luck and fallen on my feet with Brazzers. Since OnlyFans has evolved, the industry has changed a lot. There are girls working from home earning $800,000 a month.
“It is good money. But like I said, it does have its drawbacks. You can have all the money in your world, but it is never going to pay for respect from others. People are always going to judge you.”
In spite of the inevitable father-child chat, Keiran isn’t ready to lay down his tool just yet!
“I’ll probably never retire, they'll be wheeling me out,” he says. “They'll have a website for me soon called ‘Jurassic Cocks’ or something like that, won't they? I'm in my forties now, so I'm cracking on a bit, but I'm still working as much as ever. I think if it was just me and my wife, I would've retired a long time ago and just been done with it. But we’ve got three kids and I want to make sure I give them a nice start in life- a college fund, a deposit for a house and a first car. I want to set them up for life.
“We're in the process of building a house in the UK countryside. I’m looking forward to that peaceful dog walk to the pub. I still think England's the best country in the world. I was brought up with huge core values. LA is not the place for kids to grow up and I want to raise my kids in a nice safe environment.
“What I’d like to do is come over to the UK and introduce testing facilities all up and down the country so adult stars are not just relying on the NHS and putting on the system, because in the UK at the minute, you can only test once every 30 days. I want the UK industry to be nice and safe like it is over here in the US.
“It’s funny because a lot of people think porn is degrading for women, but that couldn’t be further from the truth on set. The girl comes in and straight away, she's in hair and makeup and she's getting dolled up and brought coffee. Then we'll sit down, show our health tests and speak about what she’s happy with doing. There’s literally a dropdown menu of yes and nos. So it'd be like, ‘Are you okay with hair pulling’? ‘Yes’. ‘Are you okay with slapping’? ‘Yes but on my ass only’, and things like that.
“After we’;ve finished filming, we’re asked if we had a good day and felt fairly treated. There are female staff on set to make sure the girl is looked after. At Brazzers, we brought in a talent liaison where the girl can go, ‘Hey, don't really like this part of the script. Can we change it?’ Or ‘Hey, can I have lady products’, and things like that. So they have their own personal assistant on set. So it is brilliant the way people are treated now thanks to Brazzers being at the forefront of it.
“Back in the day, porn was like YouTube, you could upload whatever you wanted onto those sites. Anybody could. Now you could never do that. The industry is so heavily regulated. You have to have model release forms, IDs, everything.. It's so watertight. You cannot get anything underage or illegal on porn sites at all, yet you look at the likes of Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and the underage images and videos are off the scale. Compare social media to PornHub and the stats are shocking. Instagram had millions of images of child pornography on there, wherereas Porn Hub had zero. To the outside world, porn is still the devil, yet everybody's more than happy to go on Facebook and upload Tommy's first day at school.
“I'm still doing about ten scenes a month for Brazzers. Perform in 6 of them now. Then I shoot anywhere between 12 to 15 days a month for my own content. I want a catalogue of content for the day that I retire so I can still be putting it out in 10 years time because John Smith, who's now 21 looking at my stuff probably won't be watching it in 10 years time, but there'll be a new 21-year-old that might come across something and buy it. So it's kind of like a nice little pension when you think about it.”
As we get ready to go back to our families for the day, I ask Keiran what really goes on behind the scenes in a porn star family home.
“My wife and I do kids stuff with the kids on the weekends,” he says. “I'm getting to the age now where my football career is sadly coming to an end. I'm playing in an over forties league and I'll get home on a Wednesday night and go, ‘Right, get me in the ice bath, I need to sit down’. And the next day I'm walking like I've just done myself up the ass, I cannot move. I’m that old bloke on the side of the pitch who comes in for the last ten minutes and gets absolutely dinked. Unfortunately, I'm that old now that I've taken up golf and I'm absolutely loving it. But I wanna move my family back to Derby, because it’s just fun. It's a fantastic place. You've got everything you need and it's where I was brought up. It is always going to be home for me no matter where I am in the world.”
Lads, we’ve got you! We couldn’t let Keiran go without getting a few dick tips.
“Just work out and drink plenty of water,” he says. “And if you want to be extra nice to your wife, date or fellow co-stars, eat lots of fruit, pineapple, watermelon, things like that.”
And what do porn stars do on the loo?
“Growing up, I remember getting Loaded mag on a Friday and sitting and reading it in my bedroom, then reading it again on the toilet,” says Keiran. “You could just sit and read it all day long. It was a part of lad’s culture. I’m so glad it’s back and to be a part of it is just awesome.”
One for the wank bank!