Reality star Stephen Bear earned just under £40,000 on Only Fans around the time he allegedly uploaded a revenge porn video of Love Island star Georgia Harrison, a court heard. The 32-year-old is accused of two counts of revenge porn and one count of voyeurism - which he denies.
The Ex On The Beach star is said to have filmed himself having sex with his ex Miss Harrison in his garden on August 2, 2020, on CCTV before forwarding it to someone on WhatsApp. He is further accused of posting the footage to his Only Fans account, a subscription-based adult website.
The video was allegedly uploaded with the caption: “Morning everyone. Can’t wait for you to see me f*cking in my garden. Here’s a sneak peak. I will be dropping this video tonight.”
Jurors this afternoon heard he made just shy of $50,000, or £40,000, on Only Fans between opening the account in October 2020 up until its deactivation in early December. It was said the video with Miss Harrison was sent to Bear’s 1,061 subscribers.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard this afternoon the pair met in 2012 but started dating in October 2018 after appearing on MTV’s The Challenge together. They had split by July 2019 but on August 2, Miss Harrison said she went to Bear’s house in Loughton, Essex, for a cup of tea.
The pair ended up on an all-day drinking session, eating lunch at a local Turkish restaurant, before returning back to Bear’s home where they “chatted, had a laugh and drank tequila shots and wine”. Giving evidence, Miss Harrison said: “We were inside the house and then Bear asked if I wanted to play cards in the garden.
“I’m pretty drunk and I would assume he was too. He got his penis out as if to say I should give him a blow job.”
Describing the sex, she said: “It was a lot more dramatic than usual when I look back. More positions and more effort.”
She said she had “absolutely no idea” he had CCTV until he mentioned it later. Miss Harrison said: “He was like ‘Oh babe I just realised some of that might have been on my CCTV’. I didn’t think in a million years it was caught from start to finish.”
She said after briefly skimming through the 20-minute footage on a screen in the kitchen, she asked him to send it to her phone so she could look at it the next day. She said: “I knew in the morning I was going to want to know what was on there.
“I was trying to explain if he ever sent it to someone and it came out it would have a serious effect on our lives. He was making me feel like I was over-exaggerating about something that wasn’t intentional.
“As I got more serious about the subject, he stopped being so humorous. He just seemed like he understood and seemed quite compassionate and at that point was being nice to me trying to stop me from crying.”
Miss Harrison said she next saw Bear a month later for his sunbed shop launch but shortly afterwards was told by a man he had seen footage of her giving Bear oral sex. She said she contacted Bear’s brother Danny asking him to intervene and ask Bear to stop sharing the video before blocking her ex on WhatsApp.
She told jurors she was on holiday in Dubai in December when she began to receive messages warning her a video of her and Bear had been posted to various porn sites. Jurors saw clips from Bear’s Instagram story in which he told followers he had not seen Miss Harrison for two years and she was not the woman in the video.
Voice notes sent by Bear to Miss Harrison on WhatsApp were also played to the jury with Bear heard to say in one: “I f*cked you in the sunbed shop. I f*cked you in my garden and my house. I have got CCTV in my garden.”
In another voice message Bear said: “I’m a c*nt, I’m a c*nt anyway but that’s next level sh*t. That can ruin people’s lives.”
"Get your attention seeking out of your system. When the dust settles you will look like an idiot for making up full-blown lies”, Bear told her in another.
The court heard Bear’s Only Fans account was set up on October 26, 2020, and deactivated on December 8 that year, during which time he raked in around $50,000. On the day the footage was uploaded, the account was said to have raised the subscription fee from $7.50 to $50, before lowering it to $20.
Prosecutor Jacqueline Carey KC said: “Only Fans can’t trace particular payments to a particular video. It’s clear there’s a lot of money to be made by posting content like this.”
Bear was arrested in January 2021 at Heathrow Airport on arrival from a holiday in Dubai, and charged in May. Jurors heard on his arrest, Bear told police his phone he was using in Dubai was in his suitcase and he was taken to baggage reclaim to identify it.
While there, Bear allegedly said his Instagram had been hacked and he could not remember what his luggage looked like. Officers then identified two pieces of luggage - one with Bear written on it - as his, it was said, but the phone was not inside and has never been located.
It was said a key used to open the slot where a SIM card is inserted fell out of Bear’s jogging bottoms at the airport. Bear’s assistant, Louise Hanley, is said to have told officers he gave her access to the Only Fans account and would send her content to upload.
Asked if she uploaded a video of Bear having sex in the garden, Ms Hanley said she could not remember but did recall uploading a video that “looked like it had been taken on CCTV”. The ex roofer, of Loughton, Essex, won Celebrity Big Brother in 2016 and co-presented Just Tattoo Of Us with Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby on MTV in 2017.
The trial continues.
