Ben Dover
Career
Born Simon James Honey in Sittingbourne, Kent, he worked as a session drummer before entering adult film in 1978 and later built the Ben Dover series into one of the defining British gonzo brands of the late 1990s, winning AVN’s Best Gonzo Release twice and an AVN Hall of Fame induction in 2011. He hosted the first UK Adult Film and Television Awards ceremony in 2006, where he also received its Lifetime Achievement Award, and later moved into mainstream British broadcasting — a 2009 BBC Four documentary about his life, and an Edinburgh Fringe one-man show the same year. His son, Tyger Drew-Honey, is a BBC television presenter and actor, a crossover the industry itself rarely produces.
Signature: An AVN Hall of Fame induction (2011) built on a gonzo brand that ran across a full UK regulatory era — legal under the 1984 Video Recordings Act throughout, and still performing decades after his 1978 debut.
Index score — The Pornstar Ranked Performer Index v3.0
Scores are normalised within a single ranking's field, so this breakdown is Ben Dover's placement inside “Dirtiest Pornstars”: What the Gonzo Award Record Actually Shows — the largest field she appears in. Her rank on each of the other 1 ranking below was computed against that ranking's own field and is not the same measurement.
Full award record5 entries
- 2011AVN — Hall of Fame
- 2006UK Adult Film and Television Awards — Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1997AVN — Breakthrough Award
- 2000AVN — Best Gonzo Release
- 2002AVN — Best Gonzo Release
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Beyond performing
- Director and producer of the Ben Dover series
- Session musician, later joined a Guns N’ Roses tribute act (2012)
Mainstream credits
- Rich Man Poor Man: Ben Dover Straightens Up (BBC Four, 2009)
- Edinburgh Fringe one-man show (2009)
- On the Ropes (2011)
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Sources and verification2 sources
- Exact retirement date from on-camera performing not stated
