Disgraced former reality TV star Stephen Bear has been jailed for 16 months for breaching a restraining order by posting on social media about his ex-girlfriend, TV personality Georgia Harrison.
Celebrity Big Brother’s 2016 winner flouted the five-year restraining order in a campaign of vitriol during which he made degrading comments about Harrison and encouraged others to comment about her, according to Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service.
The order was imposed in March 2023 after he was found guilty of disclosing private sexual photographs and films of Harrison with intent to cause distress and voyeurism.
The 36-year-old, of Walthamstow, east London, was given a jail sentence for sharing a private sex tape of Harrison on his OnlyFans website.
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Prosecutors said that between March and July 2025, Bear repeatedly posted about Harrison on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X and YouTube, despite a restraining order which banned him from doing so.
Harrison (31), who has previously waived her anonymity in this case, gave police screenshots and screen recordings which showed Bear had made a series of accusations and degrading comments about her.
In a statement, she said: “[The police] treated this as the serious crime it is, not a celebrity story. It is a real offence against a real person.”
She added: “If every force treated this the way Essex Police did, thousands of women would feel safer today.”
Harrison has starred in reality TV shows including The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island. In recent years she has campaigned on violence against women and girls after becoming a victim of revenge porn.
She was appointed an MBE for services to tackling online privacy and cybercrime awareness.
Bear and Ms Harrison were captured having sex by CCTV cameras in his garden on August 2nd, 2020.
In June 2024, Chelmsford Crown Court heard Bear had repaid £22,305 he had illegally earned by sharing a private sex tape online.
It came after a judge who had made a confiscation order for that amount warned Bear he faced nine months in prison if he did not pay the sum within three months.
The order was made at a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing after Bear walked out of prison having served 10-and-a-half months of his 21-month sentence for sharing the film.
On Thursday, prosecutors said Bear had looked to cast doubt on his convictions, including by alleging Harrison and her mother had conspired to pervert the course of justice.
Bear also created an online petition seeking support for a retrial and attempting to obtain Harrison’s bank statements.
He carried on posting despite several of his accounts being shut down due to their content.
Bear was arrested in May, later charged with breaching a restraining order and admitted the offence when he appeared at east London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court on June 8th.
The police detective who led the investigation into the breach, stressed Bear’s behaviour “is not okay and it should not be normalised or accepted”.
He praised Harrison for her “courage” and “dignity” as Bear tried to discredit her.
Senior Crown prosecutor Andrew Young said Bear had “used his platforms to amplify abuse and encourage others to target” Ms Harrison.
He added: “No woman should be made to live in fear because someone refuses to accept the restrictions placed on them by a court.
“Stephen Bear may have hidden behind a screen, but his actions had real-world consequences.” - PA
