What a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week.  

Joe Biden’s embarrassing gaffes came thick and fast this week – after the president managed to fumble a series of high-profile domestic events on the world stage.

His litany of errors – including walking into flag poles, addressing people with the wrong names and rudely forgetting to shake foreign official’s hands – is coupled with the devastating blow that the 80-year-old president’s approval rating stands at 37 percent.

This is five percentage points lower than it was in February, and crucially, it is 10 points lower than his fierce 2020 Republican competitor, Donald Trump, in the latest embarrassing poll from the Washington Post. 

Meanwhile, there is a percussive thunder of calls for him to drop out of the running for the next election, from both the left and the right of the political landscape. 

Many are seriously questioning how Biden will be able to face a long presidential campaign for the Democrats if he struggles like he did the past week – and how he’ll handle the prospect of another four years in office. 

Biden’s gaffes with the Brazilian president: Walking off stage, running into a flag, no hand shake, and failed translator earpiece

On September 20, ailing Joe Biden seemed to produce gaffe after gaffe while on the UN stage alongside Brazil‘s President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Lula da Silva, 77, looked visibly irritated after the two leaders shared a stage to speak about their initiative to improve workers’ rights in each country – because Biden walked off without shaking his hand. 

Their diplomatic meeting got off to a labored start when Biden, 80, shuffled into a seven-foot Brazilian flag, leaving it teetering as he approached the podium. 

The president made a rambling speech about his ‘economic vision to rebuild our economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down’ while Lula watched on from his right flank. 

Meanwhile, during Lula’s speech, Biden fumbled with his headset, which he was using to hear a translated version. 

‘Can you hear me President Biden? This is an historical moment for Brazil, and for the US,’ Lula said at the start of his speech.

Biden continued to look confused as he grappled with the headset while Lula went on with his speech. At one point, Biden dropped his earpiece and raised his eyebrows in frustration.

International Labor Organization Director General Gilbert Houngbo took to the podium after the two world leaders, and Biden stooped to slowly grab a folder from the ground.

Houngbo shook hands with Biden and Lula in turn at the close of his speech – but Biden appeared to leave Lula hanging, awkwardly saluting the audience before shuffling off stage.

He appeared to be torn between giving a thumbs-up or a salute, and made a sloppy gesture combining the two.

As Biden turned his back on the Brazilian president, Lula looked annoyed and made a swiping gesture with his arm. They departed awkwardly from opposite sides. 

The series of mistakes and ill gestures were watched on the world stage – as the high-level meeting brought world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York.

President calls the Congressional Hispanic Caucus the ‘Black Caucus’ 

On September 22, the president made yet another public gaffe when all eyes were on him during a keynote speech in Washington, DC. 

Joe Biden mistakenly praised the ‘Congressional Black Caucus’ during a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. 

The 80-year-old made the blunder during a speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 46th Annual Gala. 

He had celebrated Sister Norma Pimental, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, for her gala award win moments before the mistake. 

Biden praised her for living the lessons based on the Gospel of Matthew before adding: ‘The Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values.’

‘I know Sister Norma lives the lessons nuns taught me growing up,’ Biden said during the speech addressing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

‘Lessons based on the Gospel of Matthew: feed the hungry, care for the sick, welcome strangers.’

‘They echo what my dad taught me, and I mean this sincerely, my dad used to say, ‘Everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.’

The president added: ‘The Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values,’ without correcting his mistake. 

Biden repeats the same story about a white supremacist rally twice at the same event 

As well as making in-the-moment mistakes, Biden was also berated this week for repeating the same story twice at the same event in New York City.  

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was then forced to answer for Biden’s concerning, ailing behavior in front of journalists.

She said that President Joe Biden was ‘speaking from his heart’ when he repeated the same story twice at a Wednesday night fundraiser in New York City. 

Jean-Pierre was twice asked Friday about Biden’s flub – said in a room without cameras rolling but with several journalists present due to rules about covering 2024 finance events. 

A pool report from the event, held at food security expert Amy Goldman Fowler’s home, noted that Biden talked about how the white supremacist rally – and former President Donald Trump‘s reaction to it – in Charlottesville in August 2017 inspired him to run for the White House in the 2020 cycle. 

‘A few minutes later, he told the story again, nearly word for word,’ the pool report said. 

NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell asked Friday, ‘Is it any concern that he would fully retell a story in the same space at the same event?’ as polls show that a super-majority of Americans are worried that Biden  wouldn’t be effective through a second term.

‘Sometimes I re-speak as well from here and retell a story,’ Jean-Pierre said with a laugh.  

‘But look, I think it’s important to note that the president was speaking, as you said at a fundraiser and he was speaking from his heart,’ she continued. ‘He was speaking about why he’s decided to do this.’

‘And you hear the president talk about this, it’s always incredibly emotional for him. Cause he didn’t have to. He went through an incredibly difficult time when he was deciding to jump into the race,’ she added. 

Biden refers to rapper LL Cool J as ‘LL Jay Cool J’    

Adding to the long list of problematic things the President did this week, Joe Biden referred to legendary rapper LL Cool J as a ‘boy’ after mispronouncing his name at the Congressional Black Caucus.

On Saturday night, LL Cool J and MC Lyte received Phoenix Awards for their musical contributions at the annual ceremony.

While on stage, Biden said: ‘Two of the great artists of our time representing ground-breaking legacy of hip hop in America, LL Jay Cool J, uhhh…’ – as the audience laughed at his latest gaffe over the rapper’s name.

Biden then added: ‘By the way that boy – that man’s got biceps bigger than my thighs.’

The footage of his speech was quickly re-posted by right-wing RNC Research on social media, where commentators swiftly pointed out that referring to African Americans as ‘boy’ is widely considered a derogative term. 

It was yet another butchered speech for the most powerful man in the world.  

Biden claims he’s been to ‘every mass shooting’ – which he has not  

Joe Biden also – erroneously – claimed to have been to ‘every mass shooting’ this week. 

The bizarre remark came days after he falsely claimed to have visited Ground Zero the day after 9/11, and have left many demanding to know whether he is lying or forgetting.

Speaking alongside vice-president Kamala Harris in the White House Rose Garden, he said his administration had been ‘working relentlessly to do something’.

‘After every mass shooting, we hear a simple message, the same message heard all over the country, and I’ve been to every mass shooting,’ he told his audience.

There have more than 500 mass shootings in the US this year and critics on social media were scathing in their response to the latest tall story.

‘Suspicious, if true,’ tweeted former US diplomat Alberto Fernandez.

‘Every weekend should be therefore spent in Chicago instead of Delaware,’ added Fox News contributor Joe Concha.

The news comes as a new poll from the Washington Post has Biden trailing former president Trump in a theoretical 2024 match. The two men are the frontrunners for their party’s nomination for president.  

But questions are growing louder on whether Biden should run as Democrats such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom appear to be positioning themselves to take the mantle. 

According to the WaPo polling this weekend, Biden’s approval rating stands at about 37 percent, similar to where it was in May, but five percentage points lower than it was in February.

Biden’s disapproval figure is 56 percent. The poll also asked whether, in retrospect, voters approve or disapprove of the job Trump did while in office.

Forty-eight percent say they approve and 49 percent say they disapprove. When he left office in January of 2021, Trump’s approval was closer to 38 percent.

The poll’s matchup of the two likely candidates showed Trump polling ahead of Biden by 10 percentage points – 52 to 42 – among registered voters.

The current resident of the Oval Office is also ailing in his policy record. Biden has spent many of the last several weeks touting his signature economic plan, ‘Bidenomics.’ But his earned approval rating on his handling of the economy has plummeted to 30 percent – the lowest of his presidency.

Some 75 percent of Americans believe the economy is ‘not so good,’ or ‘poor,’ according to the poll. A whopping 87 percent of Americans say that gas and energy prices are ‘not so good’ or ‘poor.’ And 91 percent of people say the same about food prices.

A plurality of respondents (44 percent) said they are not as well of financially as before Biden took office, while 39 percent said they are in about the same position, and 15 percent said they are better off.

Ailing Senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, gives her DAUGHTER power of her attorney after a string of cognitive concerns and during a bitter dispute over her late husband’s estate

• Feinstein and daughter are at odds with Blum’s three daughters over access to late husband Richard Blum’s life insurance policy
• They are also dueling over Feinstein’s desire to sell a beach house in a ritzy neighborhood in Stinson Beach, north of San Francisco
• Last week Feinstein had to be told to ‘just say aye’ when voting for a defense bill during an Armed Services markup

By Morgan Phillips, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 19:54 EDT, 3 August 2023 | Updated: 19:54 EDT, 3 August 2023

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is eyeing up a 2024 White House bid as an anti-woke Democrat if Joe Biden decides not to run for a second term, it is claimed.  

Adams, 61, – who once referred to himself as the ‘Biden of Brooklyn’ – has ‘repeatedly’ told confidantes that he is considering running for the highest office and thinks he could ‘win,’ sources told the New York Post. 

‘Eric has told me repeatedly that he thinks that he has a platform to run for national office, for president in 2024,’ a source close to the mayor told the Post. ‘He thinks New York is a national platform [and] he thinks the national party has gotten too far to the left and he thinks he has a platform to win.’ 

A Brooklyn Democratic official, who was not identified, told the Post Adam’s advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin was ‘running point’ on the matter and he’d only stake his claim on the presidency if Biden, 79, declined to run again. 

There have been conflicting reports about whether Biden will seek a second term. He is already the oldest president to ever hold office, and his year-and-a-half in office has been marred with what critics claim are cognitive slips.

Ahead of the 2020 election, Biden himself had reportedly conceded he’d be a single-term president who hoped to reunite the US in the wake of Donald Trump’s divisive presidency.

But there is no obvious Democrat candidate to succeed him, with Vice President Kamala Harris’s personal approval ratings stubbornly low, and Biden is now said to be touting a 2024 run. 

While only five months into his first term in office, Adams has pleased many centrist Democrats – and conservatives – by avoiding progressive or extreme stances on economic and social issues.  

However, Adam’s advisor Evan Thies dismissed rumors, saying: ‘The mayor has not had any conversations with anyone about running for president. He is 100 percent focused on lowering crime and improving the economy in New York, and bringing this city back.’

The mayor does seem to have some backing, though, as CEO of Tusk Strategies Chris Coffey told the New York Post: ‘He is one of the best-known black elected officials in the country. The play works if Adams makes progress on crime and the president decides not to run. I think he would be crazy not to consider it.’ 

Even a GOP lawmaker told the Post he thought the Big Apple mayor could have a chance if he solved the crime riddling the City That Never Sleeps.  

The unidentified lawmaker said: ‘I said you really have to consider that you are young enough where you will have a life after the mayoralty and if you solve the crime problem there would be a lot of interest in a big city Democrat, African American with progressive values but who mediated the crime problem in a major city.’ 

Adams had been faced with rising crime rates as the city plunges into a wave of violence, leaving citizens on edge. 

Although crime rates are starting to slow down, overall violent crime is still up 40 percent across all five boroughs. Shootings, stabbings, and gun violence has run rampant through the streets – even prompting Adams to wear an ‘end gun violence’ suit jacket to the Met Gala earlier this month. 

He has blamed many of the problems he faces on former Mayor Bill de Blasio, condemned as the city’s wokest-ever leader.  

With Adams and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s lax bail reform, career criminals have been running the streets, breaking into businesses, and terrorizing citizens. 

Despite Adams’ confidence, New Yorkers have declining faith him, new polls are showing. Crime is 49 percent of citizens’ biggest concerns, followed by affordable housing and homelessness. 

The Bronx and Staten Island citizens rated him the worst at 61 and 71 percent, respectively. And his overall approval in the city sits at 43 percent approving and 37 percent disapproving, the New York Post reported. 

In addition, 86 percent of New Yorkers want more transit police in the subway system, but despite the promise of adding more officers to the system, most stations go empty. The former transit cop, himself, even encouraged citizens to send his office pictures of officers who are too busy on their phones or chatting with coworkers to keep a vigilant eye out for crime. 

If Adams does stake his bid for presidency, he will be following in the footsteps of his predecessors, such as Bill de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, and Rudy Giuliani.

However, no NYC mayor has ever made it into the White House. 

But it seems the current mayor has already been making moves to be viewed as a national leader, as he’s been seen making his way across the country at events. 

He’s recently been seen Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California earlier this month and at a cryptocurrency conference in Miami and side-by-side with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to protest gun violence in March.  

President Joe Biden may face a primary challenge if he runs for re-election in 2024. 

Analysts speculate Illinois Governor JB Pritzker may be eyeing the White House despite his claims that his focus remains on the state’s upcoming gubernatorial race.

Pritzker said Wednesday it is ‘certainly possible’ Biden would face a Democrat challenger, but added: ‘It’s not something I’m encouraging.’ 

Vice President Kamala Harris has seemingly tried to shut down rumors that she may be seeking the role of America’s top chief. 

‘Joe Biden is running for re-election, and I will be his ticket mate,’ Harris told CNN earlier this week. ‘Full stop.’ 

Meantime, an overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction under Biden, including nearly eight in 10 Democrats.

Biden’s political operatives insist he will run for president again in 2024, despite concerns about his viability.

However, political analysts aren’t convinced the incumbent will be seeking the Democratic nomination unopposed. 

Rumors arose about Pritzker’s interest in the White House after he traveled to New Hampshire last month to speak at the state’s Democratic convention.

The billionaire has also raised eyebrows with recent donations to governors in battleground states, but still insists he’s not rooting for anyone to challenge Biden.

‘That’s not something I’m encouraging, but it’s certainly possible,’ Pritzker, 57, told NBC News last Wednesday. ‘We’ve seen it in the past.’

CNN analysts note the only time an incumbent was ‘seriously challenged’ for the Democratic nominee was in 1980 when Jimmy Carter ran for re-election and was challenged by Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Although Carter narrowly won the primary, securing the presidential nomination, he was blown out in the general election by Ronald Reagan.

Despite his comment that a challenger was possible, Pritzker insists he is focusing his energy and resources on securing a second term as governor in Illinois. 

‘For me, I’m focused on my reelection and what it is I can do for the people of Illinois,’ the governor explained. Pritzker’s family owns the Hyatt hotel chain and reportedly has a net worth of more than $3.6 billion. 

Those familiar with Biden’s campaign allege he has been selling fellow Democrats on his re-election plan at fundraisers and other party events in recent weeks.

The insiders claim Biden will promote himself as the only Democrat who can beat former President Donald Trump, who has hinted at running again.

‘It’s basically the same argument he was making at this point in 2018 about why he thought he might have to run,’ a Democrat allegedly privy to Biden’s campaign told NBC News on Wednesday. ‘He would just walk through every candidate.’ 

White House insiders claim the president will finalize his campaign plans following the November midterms and file paperwork for re-election in early 2023.

His aides also claimed he is using the midterm elections as a ‘test run for 2024,’ similar to how he used the 2018 midterms to set up his 2020 presidential bid.

‘It’s the kind of thing you can only show, not tell,’ a top White House adviser told the news outlet.

But political experts still question if those efforts will be enough for Biden to secure another four years living on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Biden’s popularity has experienced a deep downturn in recent months amid growing pessimism over the economy. 

Eighty-five percent of U.S. adults say the country is on the wrong track, and 79 percent describe the economy as poor, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The findings suggest Biden faces fundamental challenges as he tries to motivate voters to cast ballots for Democrats in November’s midterm elections.

Inflation has consistently eclipsed the healthy 3.6 percent unemployment rate as a focal point for Americans, who are dealing with particularly sharp spikes in gasoline and food prices. 

The average cost of consumer goods rose 8.6 percent in May, according to the most recently available data, the highest increase since 1981.

Driving the record surge was a 48.7 percent increase in gas prices and nearly 40 percent increase in airfare, as millions across the country are feeling pain at the pump over the steep months-long rise.

Even among Democrats, 67 percent call economic conditions poor.

‘He’s doing the best he can – I can’t say he’s doing a good job,’ said Chuck McClain, 74. ‘But his opposition is so bad. I just don’t feel the Democratic Congress is doing enough.’

The poll shows only 39 percent of Americans approve of Biden’s leadership overall, while 60 percent disapprove. 

His approval rating fell to its lowest point of his presidency last month and remains at that level. 

The Democratic president gets hit even harder on the economy, with 69 percent saying they disapprove of him on the issue. Among Democrats, 43 percent disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy.

Just 14 percent say things are going in the right direction, down slightly from 21 percent in May and 29 percent in April. Through the first half of 2021, about half of Americans said the country was headed in the right direction, a number that has steadily eroded in the past year.

But despite signs of a possible economic recession, consumer spending has largely kept pace and hiring remains brisk in a sign that families and businesses have been able to withstand some of the economic pain.

In an interview last month, Biden traced the decline in his popularity to increases in gas prices that began a year ago. 

He said that prices shot up further with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. But he rejected claims by Republican lawmakers and some major economists that his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package from last year contributed to inflation, noting that price increases were a global phenomenon.

‘We’re in a stronger position than any nation in the world to overcome this inflation,’ Biden said. ‘If it’s my fault, why is it the case in every other major industrial country in the world that inflation is higher?’

But it seems like Americans have been disenchanted with Biden for months.

The president’s average approval rating dipped below 50 percent in mid-August, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight. 

His disapproval rating exceeded that threshold in late October. 

Many interviews taken for the AP’s poll were conducted after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade on June 24, allowing states to ban abortion – a decision opposed by a majority of the American people in earlier polls, which could also have contributed to the continued slump in the national mood.

The national dissatisfaction is bipartisan, the poll shows. Ninety-two percent of Republicans and 78 percent of Democrats say the country is headed in the wrong direction. Since last month, the percentage of Democrats saying the country is headed in the wrong direction rose from 66 percent.

In a CBS News poll released two days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe, 52 percent of respondents said the move was ‘a step backwards’ for the country while just 31 percent said the opposite.

More than eight in 10 people said things in America today are going badly in that survey, taken June 24 and 25. 

Biden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic remains a relative bright spot, with 53 percent of Americans saying they approve of his handling of that issue. 

On the other hand, only 36 percent say they approve of Biden’s handling of gun policy; 62 percent disapprove.

Overall, survey participants say the seemingly failing economy is their top concern.  

Biden, the oldest U.S. president in history, has also faced criticisms since the start of his presidency about his cognitive competency.

Many claims were lobbed at Biden by Donald Trump during their election contest, although 75 year-old Trump has himself faced claims about his own cognitive health. 

In April, the 46th president, while finishing a speech about the nation’s ongoing supply chain crisis, turned around and stuck his hand out as if to shake hands and then turned his back on the main audience before wandering off stage.  

The 79-year-old president had earlier claimed that he had served as a ‘full professor’ at the University of Pennsylvania despite never teaching a class at the school, in yet another gaffe that has Republicans questioning Biden’s cognitive abilities.

During his State of the Union address in March, Biden had a gaffe during his speech amid the crisis in Ukraine, confusing the nation facing invasion with Iran.

In February, more than three dozen House Republicans demanded Biden submit to a cognitive test and outlined their concerns about his fitness for office in a searing letter.

Former White House physician Rep. Ronny Jackson had also penned a similar letter in June 2021 that did not appear to receive a public reply from Biden’s team.

On March 19, video captured Biden tripping up the stairs as he boarded Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews. 

In the clip, Biden stumbles as he walks up the airstairs. He grabs the hand railing to catch his balance, but then loses his footing two additional times.

During the third stumble, he falls to his knees. However, after brushing off his leg, he reaches the top of the plane and gives a salute before disappearing inside.

White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later told reporters that Biden was ‘100 percent fine’ and preparing for his trip in Atlanta. 

‘It’s pretty windy outside. It’s very windy. I almost fell coming up the steps myself,’ she said. 

Just one day earlier, Biden accidentally referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as ‘President Harris.’

The gaffe occurred during a press conference on March 18, during which he lauded his administration for being close to meeting their goal of 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office.

‘Now when President Harris and I took a virtual tour of a vaccination center in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that, on that tour injecting people, giving vaccinations, said that each shot was like administering a dose of hope,’ Biden said.

Harris was standing behind Biden as the president carried on with his speech, but did not correct himself.

Later that day, when the White House released the transcript of his speech, Harris’s proper title was inserted with brackets.

In a speech on March 9, Biden seemed to fumble with his words and forget the name of his Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

‘I want to thank Sec – the former general – I keep calling him “General,”‘ Biden said.

‘My – the guy who runs that outfit over there. I want to make sure we thank the Secretary for all he’s done to try to implement what we’ve just talked about, and for recommending these two women for promotion.’  The slip-occurred despite the fact that just a few minutes earlier, he had mentioned Austin’s name in the speech without an issue.

During an Election Day speech in Philadelphia, Biden stumbled over his words and confused his granddaughter with his late son, Beau Biden. 

Biden told the crowd: ‘I want to introduce you to two of my granddaughters…this is my son, Beau Biden who a lot of you helped elect to the Senate in Delaware.’

The commander-in-chief had meant to introduce the crowed to Natalie, Beau’s daughter, but hadn’t just mixed up the name but the person – he also put his arm around Finnegan Biden, Hunter’s daughter.

He finally corrected himself as he draped his arm around Natalie’s shoulder and said: ‘This is Natalie, this is Beau’s daughter.’  

Beau Biden passed away in 2015 after a months-long battle with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest types of brain cancer. 

TOLD STATE SENATOR IN WHEELCHAIR TO STAND UP

Not all of Biden’s gaffes occurred in the 2020s or even the 2010s. In fact, some happened in the early aughts.

In September 2008, after Biden had been named former President Barack Obama’s running mate, he attended a campaign rally in Missouri.

It was there that he called on then-Missouri state senator Chuck Graham, who passed away last year. to stand up for the crowd.

‘I’m told Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up Chuck, let ’em see you,’ Biden said.

It was at that moment he realized Graham was in a wheelchair due to muscular dystrophy.

‘Oh, God love you. What am I talking about. I’ll tell you what, you’re making everybody else stand up, though, pal.’

According to the Columbia Tribune, Graham said he was never offended by the mistake.        

 

Growing numbers of NHS and social care workers have revealed they are abandoning their healthcare roles in favour of selling home-made porn and saucy pictures.

Swapping exhausting and poorly paid jobs for OnlyFans, some are making in excess of £1,000 a day thanks to their mountain of subscribers who pay in the region of £10-a-month. 

Charities said they are receiving ‘regular calls from NHS workers – especially nurses’ – about the website. Most are mothers, they claimed. 

But the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), a campaign group supporting women in adult work, also warned it was concerned by the increasing levels of ‘stalking and harassment’ these women face. 

OnlyFans is a social media platform, used primarily by adult content creators.

Swathes sell personalised pictures and videos – often while naked – to followers who pay a monthly subscription. Famous users include former glamour model Katie Price, who currently charges subscribers around £7 per month.

Other celebrities, musicians and comedians also use the site for non-sexual content. 

A spokesperson for the ECP told MailOnline: ‘We get regular calls from NHS workers, especially nurses, who are starting sex work including by joining OnlyFans. 

‘Women describe how their NHS wages have been cut severely over the last 10 years and they can no longer cover essentials like rent, food and heating. 

‘Most are mothers supporting families.’ 

They added: ‘Women speak about the money they can earn on OnlyFans as life-saving but it isn’t all a rosy picture. 

‘Women we speak to working in the NHS have to be particularly careful not to show their face and be identified, and that means they have to work harder for less income. 

‘Plus, we have seen an increase in complaints from women about stalking and harassment.’ 

No figures exist on how many have left for OnlyFans.

It comes amid a widespread staffing crisis engulfing the health service.

As well as OnlyFans, carers and NHS staff have been leaving roles paying just £10 an hour for higher salaries at supermarkets, restaurants and online retailers. 

Other medics and nurses have gone abroad, swapping the UK for locations including Australia for better pay, working conditions and work-life balance. 

Hospitals are already short of more than 70,000 staff across England, according to the latest workforce data, with another 40,000 across the wider NHS. 

The problem in social care is even worse, with an estimated 165,000 vacancies.

Since December, ambulance workers, nurses, junior doctors, physiotherapists have taken to the picket lines in disputes over pay and working conditions. 

Some have said they have been unable to pay their rent, with others forced to rely on food banks. 

While three days of junior doctor strikes came to a close on Friday, hundreds of thousands of RCN members began voting last month on whether to continue holding strike action, after the existing six-month mandate ran out at the start of May.   

NHS unions under ‘Agenda for Change’ contracts collectively opted to accept the Government’s offer of a five per cent pay rise plus a one-off payment worth up to £1,600 in England earlier this month.

But nurses in the RCN rejected the deal by a slender majority, leading the general secretary to admit she had ‘underestimated’ members. 

James Cowe left his full time healthcare assistant role at a dementia care home, after making his entire monthly salary in just the first 24 hours on OnlyFans.

Earning under £1,100 per month, he quit in 2021 after the government offered staff a one per cent pay rise. He called it a ‘kick in the teeth’ and warned other social care and NHS staff members were quitting to move into different careers where they felt more appreciated. 

The 25-year-old, from Bournemouth, told MailOnline he had ‘reached breaking point at the peak of Covid’. 

He now spends between 12 to 16 hours a day creating custom content for his 900+ followers, charging subscribers as little as £9 ($11.99) per month. 

‘I left my job with the knowledge that if my employers found out I would have been sacked,’ he said. 

Last month, former ambulance workers Kayley Winterson, 26, and Emily Rose, 28, from Norfolk, revealed they both turned to OnlyFans after the exhausting demands of the frontline role, which saw them endure 15-hour shifts, ‘destroyed’ their mental health.

The couple, who currently charge subscribers around £10 ($12.50) per month, took their joint account full time earlier this year in February after seeing ‘other people change their lives on the platform’ and are now ‘a million times happier’.  

They told MailOnline: ‘There are 100 per cent faceless content creators out there on the platform to subside their wages from the NHS.

‘Working standards in the NHS are poor and turnover is high. I expect to see a lot of people leave over the next few years and find avenues of earning money that are not so detrimental to their wellbeing.’ 

Meanwhile, 32-year-old Michaela Ogilvie, from Ramsgate, left her role as an NHS mental health social worker earlier this year after becoming ‘depressed’ by her role.

Since making the switch, the content creator has amassed nearly 20,000 followers on Instagram and 30,000 on TikTok.

But her income comes from OnlyFans, where she claims she is also in the top two percent of creators on the site and earns up to £1,000 a week. 

She said: ‘I enjoy it so much more than social work – it’s so freeing. For me it’s about taking back control.’

Forum users are also sharing their experiences of their ‘cushy side job’ on OnlyFans in online chatrooms, dubbing it ‘a graft’ and ‘a lot of hustle, blood sweat and tears’. 

Increasing numbers of Reddit threads are also filled with questions from healthcare professionals looking for advice on how to set up accounts and ‘make more money’. 

One user on the forum said ‘I live a double life as a medical professional’, detailed how they balanced their role with creating content on the adult website. 

In another, ‘OnlyFans as a junior doctor’, one said ‘I’ve been desperate to try and hustle few quid here and there from OnlyFans for years’. 

Another questioned, ‘if I don’t disclose that I am a doctor, would the GMC (General Medical Council) have an issue with either? Could it impact my career in any way?’ 

Users equally questioned how medical regulators would react if they were identified via their OnlyFans profile. 

Under guidance for doctors published by the General Medical Council, ‘if a concern means a doctor could pose a risk to patients or to it should be raised with us’, the regulator warns. 

‘If you identify yourself as a doctor in publicly accessible social media, you should also identify yourself by name,’ it adds.

‘Any material written by authors who represent themselves as doctors is likely to be taken on trust and may reasonably be taken to represent the views of the profession more widely.’ 

Anonymous content ‘can in many cases be traced back to its point of origin’, the regulator also cautions.  

Equally, ‘using social media also creates risks, particularly where social and professional boundaries become unclear’. 

And in March, Australian nurses and midwives were warned against posting on  OnlyFans by the industry’s professional complaints body. 

Medical workers risked being ‘a distraction for patients’, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of New South Wales said in an email to the state’s nurses and midwives.

Headlined ‘OnlyFans – Are you breaching the professional standards by subscribing to online content services?’, workers were also urged to discuss scenarios with their colleagues in which they might be recognised by a patient due to their presence on the platform. 

‘If a practitioner is the content creator, then being recognised or publishing photographs in uniform, they could be reported for their conduct – deemed by the complainant as unprofessional, or as one said, a distraction for patients,’ the email read.

‘The social media guidance is clear on the obligation of nurses and midwives to maintain professional boundaries, and where relevant the Nursing and Midwifery Board may consider social media use in your private life – even when there is no identifiable link to you as a registered health practitioner – if it raises concerns about your fitness to hold registration.’

In the US, Allie Rae, 38, was also forced to ditch her 15-year-long nursing career in 2021 after her employer discovered her OnlyFans account and gave her an ultimatum. 

The senior neonatal nurse from Boston, who worked in intensive care throughout the first two years of the pandemic, was told she would be fired if she did not delete her raunchy account.

But the mum-of-three instead turned to sex work full-time and now creates content exclusively with her husband, earning up to £270,000 per month.

Meet the Brits who’ve traded in NHS and social care jobs to earn thousands online on OnlyFans

James Cowe 

The 25-year-old spent six years working as an assistant in dementia care before quitting in March 2021 to embark on his OnlyFans venture. 

He told MailOnline: ‘I initially started working in healthcare part time whilst I was studying at college. 

‘I was attracted to the role because I have a great relationship with my grandparents and loved the idea of being able to look after and care for elderly people. 

‘We have a family-run care home in which I worked at for six months before moving onto various other homes. Then when I finished college I became a full-time healthcare assistant. 

‘All of my roles provided care for vulnerable adults and some with challenging behaviour.’

But after a ‘tough day at work’, one evening that March he ‘opened a bottle of wine, signed up but made the link private’, he said. 

It meant followers had to request his OnlyFans link directly from him.    

‘This gave me a chance to see if there was any interest before fully taking the risk of my family or colleagues finding out,’ he added.

‘Within the first 24 hours I had made over a month’s salary.’

Just three days later he made his OnlyFans link public, handed his notice in with immediate effect and in his first month creating content online, ‘made well over my annual salary’.

He told MailOnline: ‘I reached breaking point at the peak of Covid. With the new guidelines forcing us to wear masks, aprons and gloves for the full 12 hour shifts, it made our jobs extremely uncomfortable in the heat.

‘The demands of the role had changed and became increasingly wearing. At this point I was working full time and earning under £1,100 a month. 

‘With the pressure of never having any money and being in a substantial amounts of debt I felt the one per cent pay rise offered by the government was an insult.’ 

He added: ‘I was looking around on social media to see what other creators were doing to make money and the concept of OnlyFans made me feel uncomfortable. 

‘But after a few months of more gruelling poorly paid shifts it was a concept that I was finding increasingly harder to ignore and more attractive.’

Now boasting over 900 subscribers, this count has fluctuated over the last two and a half years and ‘all depends on the amount of hours I put in’, he noted. 

In February he revealed he had earned £160,000 since turning to OnlyFans full-time. 

On some days he can spend up to 12 to 16 hours ‘creating content’ and ‘engaging’ with his followers. 

‘I feel my healthcare shifts prepared me for such long hours,’ he told MailOnline. 

‘OnlyFans is a full time job, you get out what you put in. But it provides autonomy and freedom in how you work – which is something I didn’t have or had experienced in any of my previous jobs.’

He said: ‘I told my parents a week before I made the jump to OnlyFans and they were really upset about it in the beginning, to be honest. 

‘Both my mum and dad were worried about all the risks involved in essentially being an OnlyFans creator. 

‘But when they saw the success they came around and now my mum films a lot of my content for me and helps me come up with new ideas for Instagram reels.’

He added: ‘My advice to any healthcare worker with an an OnlyFans account would be don’t get caught. 

‘I left my job with the knowledge that if my employers found out I would’ve been sacked.’

Kayley Winterson and Emily Rose 

A couple who worked as emergency medical technicians (EMTs) for the ambulance service ditched their roles to take OnlyFans full-time in February. 

Kayley Winterson, 26, and Emily Rose, 28, from Norfolk, claim they are now a ‘million times happier’ and rake in four times more than what they earned in the NHS, which was around £11-an-hour.

Speaking about their health service roles, they told MailOnline: ‘We both really enjoyed the challenges the pre-hospital environment would send our way. 

‘No day was ever the same and we were able to make a meaningful difference to peoples lives especially during the lockdown.’

Ms Winterson set up an account initially in March 2022, and after leaving the 999 service, worked at a Covid testing centre.

It wasn’t until January 2023, that Ms Rose followed suit after a particularly traumatic call on the job and months of ‘anxiety breakdowns’ and in February, they launched a joint account.  

‘We saw other people change their lives on the platform,’ they said. 

‘Everyone’s goal is to be secure and working for the ambulance service our wages were poor and the work to life balance was zero to none.

‘As a couple, by February 2023 we realised if we were going to do it now was the time. 

‘We missed the opportunity so many people took on this platform during lockdown because we were still working for the ambulance service.’

They currently boast an average of 1,000 subscribers, ‘but this goes up and down as all OnlyFans creators will say,’ they added. 

‘We don’t really focus on the numbers, we focus on making great content and having that connection with our subscribers.

‘Our work life balance is outstanding, we recently bought a campervan and spend a lot of our time resting on different beaches around the UK. 

‘OnlyFans is great because you can schedule content ahead so you can really focus on your wellbeing and rest days. 

‘We dedicate two days a week to content creation and editing and that would then be scheduled so we can enjoy our weekends – every weekend.’ 

There have however been learning curves since taking the role full time, they warned. 

‘We had to learn how to separate OnlyFans from our personal relationship and remember to spend time as just us again. 

‘We give people all access to our relationship but recognise we need some things that are just for us.’

They told MailOnline: ‘Anyone that’s spoken to our face has been rather positive. We can’t and don’t imagine what people are saying behind our backs because we don’t care.

‘This is our life and we are doing what makes us happy. If people chose not to support us because of our job I think it’s a reflection of their emotional intelligence and not ours.’

But they warned not to expect to early ‘instant big money’ when creating an OnlyFans account. 

‘It has no internal traffic so if you’re not bringing your audience across you will not achieve anything. Start by building your social media platforms and really do your research before taking the jump.’ 

They added: ‘There are 100 per cent faceless content creators out there on the platform to subside their wages from the NHS.’ 

‘Working standards in the NHS are poor and turnover is high. I expect to see a lot of people leave over the next few years and find avenues of earning money that are not so detrimental to their wellbeing.’

Michaela Ogilvie 

Michaela Ogilvie was an NHS social worker but now earns up to £1,000 a week on OnlyFans. 

The 32-year-old from Ramsgate, who also has a masters degree in adult social work, claimed her role became ‘depressing’, and following a series of events in February 2023, she started looking for a new income.

She told KentOnline in April: ‘I wasn’t happy – I was really depressed going to work.

‘You have a lot of responsibility as a social worker so it’s not a job you can do half-heartedly.

A series of events involving a ‘rude’ manager and an accident involving an ambulance triggered the decision, she said.  

‘On the way home an ambulance hit the side of my car as it came out of a junction – completely writing it off.

‘That meant I couldn’t get to my job any more anyway.

‘Also, one of my clients passed away. She died in a care home but wanted to be at home, and I realised you can’t do what you want to do to help people in the job.’

The content creator had already built a large TikTok following of almost 20,000, with a further 25,900 on Instagram. 

But her income comes from OnlyFans, where she claims she is also in the top two percent of creators on the site.

She said: ‘I enjoy it so much more than social work – it’s so freeing. For me it’s about taking back control.’

‘Sometimes you get in your head and feel a bit cheap. Sometimes I worry what people think of me.

‘Men ask me to do things with them in person, and people think I’m a s*** – but I’m actually celibate.’

@kkutiepie

Other NHS workers who set up accounts while still working in the health service, have remained anonymous.

A middle-aged single mother from East Yorkshire, known only as @kkutiepie, sends pictures and videos to men on the service alongside her day job as a health worker. 

The woman, who prefers to stay anonymous, also offers sex advice to couples whose sex lives have turned stale.

She told HullLive last year: ‘People might think it’s crazy, but this is about empowering myself as a woman and finally doing something for me, that I want to do.

‘This is a real liberation for me, it’s about taking control of my life and my independence and not being reliant on anyone else financially or emotionally.

‘With this secret job I can keep a roof over our heads and not be forced to ask anyone else for help or money.’

A meagre NHS pay rise left her with no other option but to turn to OnlyFans she said, as her salary was nowhere near enough to pay for her house and bills and didn’t want to have to ask anyone for money.

Starting the account was ‘liberating’, she added, allowing her to be more adventurous after coming out of a long-term relationship.

She said she wants to help women using the site to give them sex advice and act as a ‘therapist’.

Hollie Munroe

For some carers, switching to OnlyFans hasn’t just allowed for a better life in Britain.

Hollie Munroe, now 26, from Hertfordshire, quit her job caring for the elderly to jet off to Marbella in Spain, where she lives off her cash earned on the site.

After five years of being a carer — in which she would work up to 60 hours in a week — she decided to give it up for the adult website.

She told the Daily Star last year: ‘I was going to loads and loads of houses for really s*** money.

‘Of course, there are bits to it that I miss. I enjoyed my job, I liked all of it because it was rewarding.

‘But it was the money for me – I only got paid £8 an hour.’

Charging subscribers around £7.80 ($9.99) per month, she is ranked in the top eight per cent of all OnlyFans accounts. 

Her monthly income varies depending on how much she chooses to post on the site.

But she said she had no plans to move back to the UK because she is enjoying Marbella too much.

‘I get paid for doing basically nothing. I just sit on my phone for a few hours and that’s about it really,’ she said.

‘Every day I get up, go to the beach, go shopping and come home. I just got sick of England and thought I could rent in Spain while doing a lot less. I don’t miss England at all.’