ROARING with laughter while sipping champagne during a limitless spending spree in a high-end hotel, Saffron Boswell was unbothered by the fact that a bloke was hidden away watching her every move.
Inside the wardrobe was a married sugar daddy, nicknamed ‘Coat Hanger Man’, who paid for this to have the time of her life and after even gifted both her and a friend with a Gucci handbag at the end of it.
Sugar Baby Saffron Boswell’s glamorous lifestyle is funded by married men and ‘pay pigs’ Credit: Orchard Studios..Channel 5
She features on new Channel 5 show Trading Places, which sees three shopaholics live life on an off-grid hippie commune Credit: Orchard Studios..Channel 5
For years, every aspect of Saffron’s life, from to designer gear and her party lifestyle, has been funded by a conveyor belt of other women’s husbands and – men who get a thrill from being financially drained by others.
The 26-year-old, from Essex, tells us she sees nothing wrong with – even when she’s called “a s**g and wh***” by their furious wives. In fact, she for being “so silly” to allow their other halves to find out due to their carelessness.
Famed for spending up to £40,000-a-year maintaining her look – including with cosmetic procedures, having a room packed to the brim with Chanel, Louboutin and Dior, and not holding a traditional job, Saffron leads a highly glamorous lifestyle.
It’s a million miles away from the setting she finds herself in the new series , which in this Sunday’s episode sees her and two other shopaholics live on a 60s-inspired hippie commune where, among other tasks, they have to clean out a compost toilet.
admits to The Sun she was ready to quit hours into the week-long experiment after having to drag her own suitcases across the muddy Chyan Farm site, in Cornwall, and breaking down.
She tells The Sun: “I wanted to leave straight away. My life is nothing like this at all. I do what I want, live for myself and by my own rules.
“I wake-up, order a takeaway, plan my day around going to London on a shopping spree, spending money and literally have no cares about anything.
“My life is funded by a collection of men. I have four or five ‘pay pigs’ – boys who pay for silly things like my food, eyebrow waxes and the lower end things.
“Then I have one main sugar daddy, who pays for the big purchases like Louboutin handbags, Chanel shoes and the high end things.
“I like to concentrate on one sugar daddy at a time to keep it going for as long as I can. When they realise I’m not going to sleep with them they sack me off and I find another to replace them.
“Most last for six months but for some it has been two years. I find sugar daddies in little homely pubs, 99 per cent are married and are either successful businessmen or have family wealth.”
Despite Saffron’s work being “extremely sexualised”, she insists she doesn’t do anything sexual with the many men who fund her lifestyle. She also claims to be celibate and asexual.
Saffron is spoilt with high-end designer gears by her men
She believes her fixation of expensive items was due to growing up poor Credit: Supplied
She claims to provide “companionship” for these highly-strung, highly-stressed individuals by going out on dates at fancy restaurants with them and letting them treat her to shopping sprees.
Saffron, who refuses to discuss how much she earns, says most of the men paying for her lifestyle have “weird kinks”, which she will indulge “judgement free” for a fee or expensive gifts.
“I can go out on a night out and somehow a man will reveal his weirdest sexual fantasy to me,” she says. “I say, ‘Cool, give me luxury goods in exchange or money and I’ll do it’.
“One of my pay pigs likes to put on a pig suit and be degraded by me while he cleans or washes up. He gets a kick out of me telling him, ‘You’re a loser, nothing and embarrassing’.
“These are high-powered individuals, who want to give their power to someone. They can’t admit it to their wives because they see them as a strong man, a provider and someone in control.”
Saffron recalls one former sugar daddies known as ‘Coat Hanger Man’ whose kink was inviting Saffron and a pal to a hotel room where they would “rinse his credit card”.
“People think bad stuff but it isn’t,” she says. “We would hang him up in a wardrobe by his shirt and shut the doors. He would get a kick out of hearing us having fun.
“We’d put on Pretty Woman or any film really loudly. He liked to hear us giggling and chatting, we would order room service and spend, spend, spend on his card.
“At the end, he’d come out of the wardrobe and say ‘Thank you for the best time ever’ and we would get a payment, a figure roughly equivalent to the price of a lower-end Gucci handbag.”
Sometimes the encounters end explosively when the men’s wives find out and Saffron has received around six angry phone calls.
Saffron is adamant that she never does anything sexual with her sugar babies Credit: Supplied
Her wardrobe if filled with Chanel, Louboutin and Dior outfits and accessories Credit: Supplied
“These men are so silly, they leave their phones out and save my name instead of putting a man’s instead,” she says.
“I’m always getting, ‘You’re a s**g, you’re a w***e’ and I haven’t even touched their men. I don’t even let them hold my hand.
“When confronted I say, ‘I haven’t slept with him. Talk to your husband’. This is a business for me so it’s not my place to go into things, especially because some men may get back in touch.”
The shocking details emerged during Saffron’s time at hippie commune Chyan Farm for the new documentary, where the group lived a stripped-back lifestyle without modern comforts and were asked to clean a compostible loo.
They also struggled through gardening tasks; cleaning, pressing and bottling apples to make juice to sell; using a communal bathhouse and reconnecting with nature.
It led Saffron to reflect upon her consumerist ways and realise part of her fixation on “buying very expensive things” was due to having been “brought up with nothing” on a council estate.
She says: “I grew up with no money, it was dire, like really bad. Even now, some months I’m in a real bad situation, which is why I have a lot of assets – things I can sell if it gets bad.”
Saffron recalled regularly having to put water on her cereal “when things got bad” and they couldn’t afford milk, during her childhood while being raising by a “strong, power unit” single mum.
“My mum is such a proud person, who would rather pay her own way whereas I feel I deserve things from men,” she says.
“We’re polar opposite but understand each other. I think if men are willing to give it, I’ll accept it. Why not? That’s my attitude.”
Saffron, who has 194,000 TikTok followers , also recalled being “so atrociously bullied” at school that every lunch time she ate alone in the toilet and for a time, had had no friends.
Far from her bubbly personality today, she was once “literally a hermit” and rarely left the house, which she tells us was due to victimisation from the popular classmates, who all came from money.
“A lot of them had massive houses and swimming pools despite us going to a state school,” she says.
She claims to only go out on dates with her sugar daddies Credit: Supplied
She also revealed she eats three takeaways a day – but says they’re not all kebabs and unhealthy meals Credit: Jam Press
“I didn’t fit into their bubble, I didn’t have money and wasn’t conventionally pretty. They ripped apart the way I looked and back then I was a shell of a human.
“Once I was invited to the park and thought I’d finally been accepted by the girls, but when I got there they jumped out from the trees and threw eggs at me. It was humiliating.”
The experience on the show was clearly emotional for Saffron and at the end of the seven days of off-the-grid living, she admitted to being proud of herself for surviving it.
She adds: “Everyone thought I would leave on day one but I lasted the week… there was so much emotion that came over me… I was finding bits about myself that I’d hidden for so long.”
Yet aside from her hippie mentors’ teachings for her to love herself and embrace who she is, it seems unlikely that luxury-loving sugar baby Saffron will be changing her life any time soon.
Trading Places starts Sunday 10th May at 9pm. Watch or stream whole series on 5 from Sunday.
I used chuck clothes in the bin after one wear
PRIOR to going back to basics on the hippie farm, a “good day” in the life of Bridie Fitz meant receiving up to 17 freebies a day.
The student, 22, from Salford, bagged makeup, perfumes, countless clothing and shoes – most of which she would use once before chucking it away.
Her excessively wasteful lifestyle was all for her TikTok account , where she would share ‘unboxing’ and fashion videos with her 14,000 followers.
During her time with eco-friendly folk for Trading Places, she teared up as she admitted: “I often feel guilty getting parcels, a PR gets it sent to me, I wear it for a video, I chuck it in the bin.
“Packing, Packing,Packing, the amount of rubbish. It makes me feel like s*** but it’s my job.
“Initially, you’re like ‘Yeah, parcels!’ and then you unbox them and that tiny five seconds of dopamine that you get is over. I’ve got all this packaging that’s kind of disgusting.”
Having spent time in the clean air, living off the land and with genuine people who “have no ulterior motives”, it led Bridie to “find a more meaningful life for me”.
Speaking about the endless parcels, mainly filled with “plastic and Chinese crap”, she adds: “I don’t think it aligns with where my values are.”
Bridie also says she relished being disconnected from her phone, realising she had “thousands of fans but lost touch with myself”.
Describing the experience as “eye-opening”, she claims it made her “more present”, “more mindful” and more interested in reconnecting with nature.
“It was magical being there,” she adds. “It helped me confront who I was pretending to be and focus on who I actually am.”
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