Stephen Bear Given Prison Sentence For Breaching Georgia Harrison Restraining Order

Reality TV personality Stephen Bear has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for breaking the terms of a restraining order.

In 2023, Bear served just over 10 months in jail after being found guilty of distributing footage of himself and his ex, Love Island star Georgia Harrison, having sex. She was not aware that they were being filmed, nor did she give her permission for the footage to be shared.

As part of the terms of his conviction, the Celebrity Big Brother winner had been banned from posting about Harrison or the case on social media.

However, he repeatedly broke this arrangement, leading to him being convicted of harassment by breaching a restraining order, which he previously pleaded guilty to at a hearing in June.

On Thursday, it was confirmed that Bear had subsequently been sentenced to more than a year in prison for breaking these terms, and is now banned from contacting Harrison, her mum and a family friend.

The court heard that Bear had “consistently” posted a slew of messages about both Harrison and the case “of the most abhorrent and harmful type” between March and July of last year.

Judge Christopher Morgan – who also oversaw the previous case involving Bear – said these posts were intended for “maximum harm” towards Harrison, and that he’d left her “at the mercy of any individual who had aligned themselves with your lies”.

Per BBC News, he told reporters upon leaving court: “Wish me luck guys. See you soon, hopefully.”

Bear first rose to prominence in the 2010s when he appeared as a contestant on Channel 4’s Shipwrecked, before being cast on MTV’s Ex On The Beach.

From there, he appeared on Channel 5’s Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, controversially going on to win the series, before appearing on reality shows Celebs Go Dating and The Challenge.