I regret becoming a porn star because of a big bald cameraman - Ex footballer

Former Crystal Palace youth player Damian Oliver has shared his regret at becoming a porn star.

He revealed that being an adult actor is not all it is cracked up to be and described the unglamorous aspects of the job in an appearance on the Anything Goes with James English podcast.

Once a budding footballer, a stint in prison led Oliver to fall out of the game.

And in search of some extra cash, while painting and decorating, he turned to porn - pocketing £150 from his first job.

But it was not a good experience for the ex-Eagle, who recalled the shoot saying: "That was terrifying, being on my first set, the camera guy there was a big bald Irishman, he was quite scary - I've got to get my d*** out in front of him.

"It was like laminate flooring, and I was butt-naked and sweating, and I was slipping in my own sweat.

"We had to keep cutting, I kept slipping all across the floor, they had to keep wiping the floor down, I was just a dripping mess.

"People used to say to me, 'you're doing it all anyway' because they knew I used to sleep with girls, I was a player, and they said, 'you might as well get paid for it.

"But it wasn't until I had the confidence to actually do it, [that I realized] it was a whole different ball game."

Oliver keeps in good shape and used to be a fighter in his younger days when he was part of the Palace academy.

He believes pursuing sport would have been more fruitful, though he did meet his girlfriend and fellow adult entertainer Sophie Anderson in the industry.

Oliver added: "When I was at Crystal Palace, if I'd have stayed with them, then I could have been earning a lot more playing football. I used to fight as well, maybe that could have gone somewhere.

"I was good at both of those things, but being a porn star, I thought that would be just as good. But it's not as good as people think."