Stephen Bear reveals jail launch date after intercourse tape scandal

Disgraced Big Brother star Stephen Bear has insisted he needs to get his ‘life again on observe’ after revealing he can be launched from jail this month.

Bear was jailed in March after filming and importing footage of himself having intercourse with actuality TV star Georgia Harrison on his OnlyFollowers web site with out her consent.

The winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2016 had been given 21 months behind bars, however appears set to be launched midway via his sentence on licence.

A supply had beforehand claimed the intercourse offender could be freed round his birthday on January 15, and now he has seemingly confirmed it in a publish on X.

Posting on the social media web site previously generally known as Twitter from behind bars, Bear wrote: ‘I can be leaving Brixton jail on the seventeenth January. Can’t wait to get my life again on observe. Who’s excited to see me?’

Stephen Bear was sentenced to 21 months after being convicted of voyeurism, disclosing personal, sexual pictures and movies with intent to trigger misery, and harassment with out violence

The former Celebrity Big Brother winner, pictured right here outdoors courtroom in December 2022, was reportedly set to be freed sooner or later this month

In a publish on X (previously generally known as Twitter), Bear confirmed he could be free of Brixton Prison on January 17

He additionally posted a ballot asking folks whether or not they ‘could not wait to see’ him or if they’d ‘somewhat watch paint dry’. Nearly 80 per cent of those that responded have chosen the second choice.

A supply had earlier advised The Sun that Bear had ‘served his time’ behind bars and could be set free in ‘the subsequent few weeks’. 

‘However, he is been telling friends he isn’t the identical man that went into jail,’ they stated.

‘There can be no hopping again on to social media or rolling straight again into the closest nightclub when he will get out, he says he simply needs to get again to east London and his household.’

The supply stated ‘time will inform’ if he has ‘modified’. 

Bear was jailed in March after being convicted of voyeurism, disclosing personal, sexual pictures and movies with intent to trigger misery, and harassment with out violence. 

According to the Sun, his girlfriend Jessica Smith dumped him in September, after vowing to face by him whereas he was in jail. Bear was stated to be heartbroken by the break up.  

Meanwhile, in October Georgia Harrison demanded abuse instances are given precedence in courts as she appeared on stage at Labour’s convention in Liverpool.

The former star of actuality exhibits The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island spoke of her lengthy watch for justice. 

She stated it took two years from the day she reported the crime for Bear to be convicted and warned concerning the influence of lengthy authorized processes on victims of different crimes, reminiscent of rape and home abuse.

Georgia Harrison has demanded abuse instances are given precedence in courts

Stephen Bear along with his ex-girlfriend Jessica Smith – who had vowed to face by him whereas he was in jail however dumped him final yr

The 28-year-old stated she now has an ‘onslaught’ of girls reaching out to her for assistance on social media following her high-profile case.

She additionally referred to as for ‘large on-line platforms’ to be required to take down sexually specific content material which had been posted with out consent. 

Speaking on a panel on the primary stage of Labour’s convention, Ms Harrison stated it was ‘actually vital that victims really feel they’re going to be taken severely when they’ll the police’.

‘I converse to loads of ladies who simply really feel like they weren’t taken severely or nobody actually understood after they did go to the police,’ she added.

‘One factor I wished to focus on from my private expertise is I really feel there must be extra assist for victims after they do select to name the police and go into the courtroom system.

‘For me, from the day I reported the crime, it took me two complete years to get a conviction.’

Ms Harrison spoke of how the two-year authorized ordeal she endured was ‘detrimental to my profession and my psychological well being, which was actually onerous for me’.

She added: ‘But I could not assist however assume, think about should you have been both a sufferer of home abuse or a sexual assault, should you had been raped.

‘And you get a telephone name to say “actually you’re going to have to wait a whole other year to even get inside a court room”.

‘You’ve obtained to spend the subsequent yr of your life strolling down the road not understanding if you are going to get attacked, killed, violated – how would you reside with that?

‘It could be so good if the courts might be sure that if it’s a sufferer of sexual assault or home abuse – particularly as in a home abusive relationship, that period of time leaves the perpetrator so lengthy to govern them to drop the costs – I believe these kind of instances ought to be prioritised and 90 per cent of these victims are ladies.’

MailOnline has contacted the Ministry Of Justice for remark.