A court has heard Stephen Bear claim he didn't forward his sex tape with Georgia Harrison to anybody – despite it appearing online, which sent his bank balance rocketing.
Reality TV star Bear has taken the stand where he admitted cheating on his girlfriend of six months with Georgia Harrison, and described himself as a "better looking" Paul Daniels.
Stephen, 32, is accused of filming himself having sex with Georgia at his home in August 2020 and then sharing the CCTV video on OnlyFans without her consent.
Today Bear took to the stand, where he said he deleted the footage the day the pair had sex - as Georgia requested, and had no knowledge of it being uploaded to OnlyFans.
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GC Images)Bear who appeared nervous before giving evidence, and said he couldn't sleep last night, described how he met Georgia on TV show The Challenge in 2018 and the pair were sleeping together, while he had a girlfriend of six months.
Asked by defence Gemma Rose how he would describe himself, Stephen said: "I am a jack of all trades, I used to be a labourer, got into roofing, then I did some TV work now I'm an adult entertainer while my TV work is on hold because of this case."
He said that he and Georgia were never in a relationship, adding: "During The Challenge, I was sleeping with Georgia and I had a girlfriend at home. Me being me when there's drink involved and a pretty girl in front of me it just goes out of the window.
"My girlfriend at the time, I loved her as well," Stephen said, adding he had a tattoo of her name.
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GC Images)Stephen described how his girlfriend found out about the fling through the press and rang him up while filming the Challenge, with Georgia then throwing a drink over him.
After The Challenge, Stephen described he decided to support Georgia at a clothing launch, but ended up kissing two of her friends.
"I just couldn't help myself," he said, adding: "I know it's her big day."
Turning to August 2, 2020, Stephen described how the pair met up for a cup of tea at his house in Loughton, and then went out for lunch, where they got "smashed" and told the court the pair had sex in his sunbed shop, before going back to his and continued drinking.
He described how the pair had sex in the house and then started playing cards outside.
He told the court: "She goes to me, 'you look really fit,' a fit Paul Daniels if you know him, I'm better looking than him."
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GC Images)Ms Rose asked about CCTV in Stephen's house, with the Celebrity Big Brother saying he has seven cameras after he had his belongings stolen, as well as two gates and three dogs.
When asked if he had told Georgia about the CCTV, he responded that he had a 30-inch screen in his house, which shows the feed from his cameras, which is what they watched the footage from the sex in the garden on. He said: "I thought it was fun, you would think it was funny, she laughed, 'I will come next year'."
Stephen said that Georgia asked him to delete the footage straight away, and he did so and denied sending it to anyone else that evening.
"No one has ever seen the video apart from us, why would I forward it to someone?" He said.
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PA)On whether Georgia texted him the next day, telling him again not to share the footage, Stephen said: "She might, I ignored it. What I do is, I take someone out, I don't really talk to them afterwards until I see them again."
After this he added: "Sorry to the girls listening, I'm not saying that's the right thing to do."
When asked if he uploaded the video of the footage, he replied: "I don't know of any video being uploaded," adding he only knew of the footage which he deleted.
Yesterday, Georgia, 27, told the court she had been left so ashamed by the circulated video that she couldn't leave her room, and her brother and sister "had to see me having sex on his account."
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PA)The court heard that during his police interview after his arrest in 2021 on his birthday, Stephen said his Instagram had been hacked and accused Georgia of showing the video to friends, which she denies.
Today, reading the agreed facts of the police investigation, prosecutor Jacqueline Carey said that in November 2020, the footage was sent to subscribers of Bear's account, and they had to pay an additional $9.99 to access it.
The holder of the account would have made $2,181 dollars from the footage, Ms Carey said.
She said that on October 1, 2020, Bear had -£12,000 in his account.
On Tuesday, jurors heard that Bear made just shy of $50,000, or £40,000, on Only Fans between opening the account in October 2020 until its deactivation in early December.
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.
Georgia previously told the court she only knew there was CCTV after Stephen mentioned it that day after they had sex in the garden.
Stephen pleaded not guilty in July in 2021 to voyeurism and two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs or films, but the trial is only now beginning after it was pushed back from February.
The trial continues.