EXCLUSIVE Stephen Bear pictured for first time since being found guilty

Disgraced reality TV star Stephen Bear was pictured today for the first time since he was found guilty of sharing a sex tape of his Love Island ex Georgia Harrison on Only Fans.  

The former Ex on the Beach participant was spotted smirking behind the wheel of a 4×4 as he left his Essex home with his current girlfriend, Jazmin Paris Morrall, who wore an ankle length black and white coat. 

Bear is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of a series of charges, including two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress.

He was filmed on CCTV cameras having sex with Love Island star Ms Harrison, 27, in his garden on August 2, 2020, before the footage appeared on WhatsApp and the online subscription site.       

The judge bailed Bear until January 31 to return to the same court for sentencing, after a report has been prepared about him. He faces a maximum sentence of two years’ imprisonment. 

Bear, who wore a black suit and tie, looked straight ahead as the jury foreman returned the verdicts after more than eight-and-a-half hours of deliberation.

After the guilty verdicts were returned, Bear said in court: ‘My barrister said not to…

‘In my opinion from the very beginning it was never a fair trial, what the press said against me.

‘I was fighting a losing battle and it is what it is.’

Judge Christopher Morgan told the defendant: ‘Thank you for that observation.’

Ms Harrison appeared to breath a sigh of relief as the guilty verdicts were returned.

She said, in a statement released through police, that the ‘last two years have been absolute hell and this verdict will allow me to start to put the pain I have suffered in the past and start embracing the future’.

‘I hope me taking a stand gives other men and women who have fallen victim to revenge porn the courage to seek justice and most importantly show them that they have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of,’ she said.

‘I have felt ashamed, hurt, violated, even broken at times but today I stand here feeling empowered, grateful and a huge sense of unity with all of those who have reached out to support me throughout this ordeal.’ 

The prosecution said that the sex at Bear’s home was consensual but that Ms Harrison, who waived her right to anonymity, did not know that they were being recorded. 

The complainant said she saw Bear send the footage to someone on WhatsApp later that day, and that later that year she was made aware that it was circulating online.

Ms Harrison – who has appeared on The Only Way Is Essex, Love Island and Olivia Meets Her Match – said that when Bear showed her the footage she told him ‘never to send’ it to anyone and ‘made it plain how upset she would be if he did’. 

Prosecutor Jacqueline Carey KC said that Bear uploaded the footage ‘either himself or had it uploaded to OnlyFans and profited financially’.

Bear, who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, claims he deleted the footage and did not send it to others.  

He previously told the trial he ‘thought it was funny’ that the cameras had captured himself and Ms Harrison having sex.

‘We played it on the monitor screen,’ he said. ‘She asked for a copy of it.

‘I said ‘of course I will send you a copy’, it was 20 minutes long.’

Bear said that Ms Harrison ‘told me to delete the footage, which I did’.

‘Why would I want that on my phone?’

He said his ‘intention’ that day ‘was to catch up with a friend – sex was a bonus and the footage was quite funny to watch back’.

He described Ms Harrison’s allegation that she saw him send the footage to someone on WhatsApp that evening as a ‘complete lie’.

During his police interview, Bear claimed Ms Harrison laughed about the sex video when he showed it to her in the garden and said he ‘put in a good performance’.

He told officers she had shared it with her friends and told them: ‘I said ‘F****** hell, babe, look at that, I’ve got it on camera.’ 

‘It turned her on, she was horny, she just laughed about it, it’s funny.’

Bear made repeated claims that his Instagram had been hacked but answered only ‘No comment’ when police asked him specific questions. 

Ms Harrison’s mother and manager, Nicola Harrison, gave evidence during the trial and said her daughter was ‘tearful’ and ‘crying’ when she phoned her the day after being filmed. 

She said Ms Harrison told her not to worry as Bear had promised he would delete the video.

Nicola told jurors: ‘She said he sent the video to someone in front of her and she asked him to delete it. She thought it had reached the end of it – she said ‘Don’t worry, he has deleted it.’

‘She said people were contacting her and saying they had seen the video and some people contacted her from America. She said it must be online and it was not just people showing it.’

As her manager, Nicola had access to her daughter’s Instagram account and said that after a request for information her daughter posted in December 2020 she saw 20 replies, one of which sent her a screenshot of the video.

She said she went onto Bear’s OnlyFans page, paid $15 and saw the video but did not watch it, adding: ‘It is something I would never, ever want to see.’

When asked about footage being uploaded to OnlyFans, Bear told his trial: ‘I don’t know of any video being uploaded.

‘All I know is a 20-minute video I had at the time. I don’t know of any other video that’s been uploaded.’

He also said he had never changed his subscription price on his OnlyFans account, which was deactivated in December 2020.

During his trial, Bear’s Twitter account posted a ‘50% off’ deal for his adult entertainment website alongside a photo of him arriving at court accompanied by Miss Morrall.

The photo showed him walking from a hired chauffeur-driven white Rolls Royce to the court building, and the accompanying text said, in block capitals: ‘50% off my adult site for the next 24 hours.

‘Come see why I’m trending.’

The post included a smiling purple devil emoji, and a link to his website. 

In the photo, taken on the first day of his trial, Bear wore a pink suit, black fur jacket and sunglasses.

Bear’s Twitter account describes him as an ‘international playboy’ and ‘self-made billionaire’. 

It was not the first time that the Ex On The Beach star’s social media account had made reference to the court case taking place.

Before the trial, a poll on Bear’s Twitter account asked his followers ‘What colour suit should I wear to court on Tuesday (December 6)?’

Most of the votes were for ‘pink’, and the account later posted a short video of Bear, apparently inside a vehicle and wearing the pink suit that he wore on the first day of his trial.

In the clip he gave a thumbs up, and text over the video said that ‘pink won the vote’.

The post was captioned ‘keeping it low key’, with a smiling tongue out emoji, and a paw prints emoji.

Later in the trial, Bear’s account posted a different video clip of him arriving at court with a caption over the footage reading ‘Never give up’.

The defendant, who wore different outfits to court, was pictured in another post carrying a cane as he waited for Miss Morrall to exit a Rolls Royce outside court, with the caption reading ‘Every king needs a queen’.

His account retweeted a post from Miss Morrall’s account reading ‘I’ll always be by your side, even if the whole world is against you’.

It also shared a post from another account, reacting to footage of him arriving at court carrying a cane, which said ‘absolute legendary outfit, dressed like a king’.

Essex Police said that in February 2022, Bear was seen to be discussing the court case on social media, ‘clearly breaching his court bail conditions’, so he was further arrested and later charged.

How reality TV turned Stephen Bear from a nobody into a shameless wannabe porn star who appeared at court clad in fur in a rented Rolls-Royce and used his trial to flog his grim OnlyFans account featuring him and his young girlfriend

By Matthew Lodge and Paul Thompson for MailOnline 

Since swaggering onto the nation’s screens as an unknown 11 years ago, Stephen Bear has never been far from controversy.

Aside from his on-screen antics in reality TV shows such as Shipwrecked, Ex-On the Beach and The Challenge, designer-clad jack-the-lad Bear’s varied love life has ensured him more than his share of publicity.

He has had strings of glamorous partners, many of whom have rarely hung around long due to his serial cheating.

His biggest claim to fame was winning 2016 Celebrity Big Brother which allowed him to cash in on his fame to the tune of £1million with personal appearances and even a biography.

In recent years, his TV career has been largely on the slide and he decided to reinvent himself as a wannabe porn star.

He milked the publicity over the court case, using it to promote his website, where sex videos can be bought, after his OnlyFans site was closed down in December 2020.

While awaiting trial, he posted a clip on the site, and on Twitter, depicting a sex act with his young girlfriend – and enthusiastic fellow porn star – Jazmin Morrall, 23.

Jazmin, from Poole, in Dorset, who goes by the name of Jessica Smith on Instagram, has been ever present by his side during his trial at Chelmsford Crown Court as he arrived in a white Rolls Royce, dressed in a variety of gaudy suits and coats, flourishing a gold or silver cane, posing outside puffing on a huge cigar.

Miss Morrall has her own OnlyFans site, as well as around 1million followers on Instagram.

The pair got together last year when Bear posted a call on Twitter for a girlfriend to ‘settle down with’. The pair are said to be planning a wedding in Turkey, though Bear is likely to have an appointment with His Majesty’s Prisons before that.

But no doubt the ever-optimistic Bear will see a jail term as more of a marketing tool, hoping his notoriety will only boost the sales of his online sex videos still further.

His own defence barrister Gemma Rose certainly didn’t sound like much of a fan when she told the jury: ‘You may not agree with Mr Bear’s views or his work online but this is not a court of morals.’

Bear impressed the producers of a show called Shipwrecked in 2011 with his good looks and brash cockney geezer persona, but there was nothing loveable about Bear.

Contestants were stranded on a desert island and had to fend for themselves with Bear’s nasty streak showing itself during one episode when he threatened another contestant who he believed had taken his food ration.

Heavily tattooed Bear’s appearance didn’t lead to much TV work and he disappeared from view.

But in 2015 he was chosen to appear in the reality series Ex-On the Beach where he starred alongside his ex-girlfriend Connie Wiltshire.

During the MTV show he hooked up with Vicky Pattison.

Their romance didn’t last and Pattison, who would go on to win I’m A Celebrity, accused Bear of using her fame to get on Celebrity Big Brother.

Pattison’s withering assessment of her own Ex left little room for doubt: ‘He’s literally been the most vile, horrendous, snaky, conniving and manipulative person I have ever met.

‘I’m truly shocked that I’ve allowed myself to get so taken in – but there you go. Love is blind, or in my case, blind, deaf, stupid.’

Nevertheless, the series proved to Bear’s launching pad and he went on to win the show in 2016.

He beat a host of well-known names to win the reality show which featured his X-rated antics with Playboy bunny and X-Factor reject Chloe Khan as they licked chocolate of each other’s bodies.

Bear landed another show called ‘Just the Tattoo of Us’ alongside former Geordie Shore regular Charlotte Crosby.

The pair became an item off camera but Bear had to pretend to producers he was single when he landed a place on Celebs Go Dating.

As with most of his romances the relationship with Crosby lasted a matter of months and they split after several public spats.

Further work followed in the shape of three versions of ITV reality show ‘The Challenge.’

Bolstered by his new-found fame Bear released an autobiography called Bear’s Necessities: A Simple Guide to Life.

The book mostly gave advice on how people could become reality stars.

Its tag line read: ‘The School of Life has a new headmaster and Stephen Bear is going to teach you all you need to know to become the next reality TV sensation. Whether it’s how to wind people up, how or find yourself on the cover of Hello or OK Magazine, even how to land your own show, Bear’s Necessities has got it covered.’

The book rated a surprising 4 stars out of 5 on Amazon, but some of those 20-odd reviews are suspiciously brief.

One-star reviewer Helen, who spent 15p on the book in a charity shop, did not mince her words, telling prospective purchasers: ‘The person this book is about is a vile human being, you only need to read a small amount about him online to see what sort of person he is.

‘If narcissistic, mysoginistic, compulsive liars that treat women like absolute dirt is your thing, then by all means go ahead and have a read. Absolute sicko.

‘Current behaviour clearly demonstrates that. It nearly made my eyes bleed. It’s gone straight in the bin as I wouldn’t want to be responsible for anyone else having to endure this absolute drivel.’

Bear’s love life has centered around other reality stars. Apart from Crosby and Pattison he has been linked to inked glamour model Jemma Lucy and fashion influencer Ellie O’Donnell.

It was his relationship with former Love Islander Georgia Harrison – who he met on ‘The Challenge’ – that has led to the current trial after [allegedly] posting a video – without her consent – of them having sex.

Since 2020, Bear’s TV work has dried up because, according to insiders, he’s too unreliable. Instead, turned to posting explicit sex content on his OnlyFans site where he described himself as the ‘baddest guy you would ever meet’.

When giving evidence, Ms Harrison – waiving her anonymity – said Bear had ‘hung her on a wall naked for millions of people to see.’

She revealed their relationship was ‘casual but intense’ during the filming of The Challenge. She claimed he had told her he ‘loved her’ but the pair fell out when he slept with another person.

She became tearful recalling when she found out the video of them having sex was being shared. Learning he had [allegedly] shared the video on WhatsApp, she said: ‘He said he loved me and would never do this to me and at the time he had a promising career in TV and I believed him. But looking back I was an absolute idiot.’

Ms Harrison, who has appeared on Love Island and The Only Way is Essex, said she never gave consent for the video – captured secretly on CCTV – to be shared and is also seeking civil compensation alongside a criminal trial.

While awaiting trial Bear also posted a clip to his site depicting a sex act with Miss Morrall. She has been ever present by his side during his trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, as he arrives in a white Rolls Royce, dressed in a variety of gaudy suits and coats, flourishing a gold or silver cane.

Bear claimed the short clip with Miss Morrall had earned him tens of thousands of pounds and he boasted that he was buying a club in Las Vegas although that has not materialised.

In her closing speech, prosecutor Jacqueline Carey KC delivered a damning assessment of Bear, telling the jury: ‘If it gets him fame, money, notoriety or trending on Twitter he will say whatever he wants, he will do whatever he wants and distribute whatever he wants.’

She added: ‘We are not asking you to convict Stephen Bear because he sleeps with women and doesn’t call them back. As ungentlemanly as it is, that is not what he is charged with.

‘He is not charged with being a self-obsessed show-off.’

After all, if that were a crime, reality TV might have to dream up a new title – The Only Way is Wandsworth?