A check is a check: Drea de Matteo (Adriana on The Sopranos) joins Only Fans

 

Photo: Drea de Matteo / Only Fans

Drea de Matteo announced she has joined Only Fans. For $15.00 / a month viewers can get an eye full of whatever she's selling. Drea joins the roster of other Z-list celebs including Bella Thorne, Coco Austin, Iggy Azalea, Denise Richards, and Carmen Electra who are taking it all off for an easy paycheck. Hey, as long as it's legal and they're not hurting anyone or anything - that's their business. Drea is also peddling on Cameo. That's the celebrity shout-out service. A check is a check.

All that said, I do take offense with the photo she used for the announcement (see above). WTF was she thinking? She looks like a hungover Mrs. Robinson wannabee who can't figure out what day of the week it is. And posing on a stained mattress with someone passed out on the floor doesn't say "sexy". The whole thing is like a scene from The Sopranos. Or a Terry Richardson photo shoot. Ick. She would fit right in as one of the Bada Bing club girls.

After finding fame as Adriana on The Sopranos for 5 seasons and winning an Emmy for the role, she went on to portray Wendy Case in Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) and then joined the cast of Shades of Blue from 2016-2018. Since that show ended, she's worked on a lot of forgettable straight to DVD movies (or straight to a streaming channel no one has heard of) or the occasional guest spot on a TV show. Along the way, the 51 yr old Drea had 2 kids with Shooter Jennings (son of Waylon Jennings). Go figure what she saw in him.

Drea's career has been on an express lane to irrelevancy the past few years. She leaned heavily on her Sopranos fame to open doors which it did since she snagged a role on Sons of Anarchy. SOA was an okay show - not great, not terrible. Now it's all lead her to Only Fans.

BTW, if you've never seen The Sopranos - got watch it. It's an excellent show. Except for the series final episode which was stupid and insulting to loyal fans like me.