The jury have begun deliberations in Georgia Harrison and Stephen Bear’s trial.
The Ex On The Beach star has been accused of sharing an alleged sex tape of the Love Island star back in 2020.
In January 2021, the 32-year-old was arrested by police at Heathrow Airport after returning from Dubai.
Bear denies voyeurism and two counts of disclosing private, sexual photographs and films.
The trial kicked off at Chelmsford Crown Court on December 6, and was expected to last at least four days.
Jacqueline Carey told the court: “In August 2020 the complainant Georgia Harrison met up with her former boyfriend Stephen Bear.”
“They had some lunch and had some drinks and ended up back at his house in Loughton (in Essex). They engaged in consensual sexual intercourse in his garden.”
“What she didn’t know but he did was Mr Bear had CCTV cameras in his garden that recorded them having sex.”
Later that day, the barrister said Bear told Georgia about the footage and showed it to her.
According to MailOnline, Ms Carey said the Love Island star “told him never to send it to anyone and made it plain how upset she would be if he did.”
However, Georgia claimed Bear sent the footage to someone via WhatsApp that same night “despite knowing how upset she would be if the footage were to get out”.
Jacqueline went on to accuse Bear of profiting off the sex tape by post the footage on OnlyFans.
On December 7, Georgia broke down in tears as she took the witness stand for the first time.
The Love Island star claimed: “I did not think he would do this to me. We had a lot of history and he knew the effect this would have on my life. I didn’t think he would do that as we were on good terms. I trusted him. It upset me. It ruined my life.”
“After this happened I was in the worst state of my life. I can’t explain the shame. I didn’t want to leave my room. Instead of apologising, he put his subscription price up from £25 to £50.”
Asked if she wanted a break from the witness box, Georgia said: “I’m fine, sorry.”
The Love Island star told the court: “Bear used to say he was in love with me in real life and on the show. You could say it was casual but it was pretty intense as well.”
“I did have a lot of love for Bear when we were filming together but I never once thought we would have something in the real world. I never looked at him as someone who could potentially be my boyfriend.”
The 27-year-old alleged she was upset when Stephen “slept with someone else in our hotel room and locked me out of it” before also reportedly kissing her best friend at her clothing launch.
In August 2020, the on-off couple had lunch and drinks before going back to his sun bed shop where they had sex, before they went to his Essex home to play cards while having more drinks in his garden, where CCTV recorded them having sex again.
The lawyer asked: “You’d had sex earlier that day and that was just a natural continuation of that, wasn’t it?,” to which Georgia replied: “Yes. But I didn’t for a second have any idea there was CCTV in his kitchen or garden where we were having sexual intercourse.”
“It was initiated by Bear but it was consensual. He was leading. I was drunk and obviously not thinking it would come to anything like this.”
Georgia claimed Stephen airdropped her the footage which they watched together, adding: “At the time, I didn’t take it as seriously as I should have.”
The Love Island star alleged she had asked him to delete it, which he said he had; however, she claimed she saw him send a video to a friend of WhatsApp that night.
Georgia claimed she warned Bear about revenge porn, telling the court: “I used those words because I wanted Stephen Bear to be clear what would happen if he shared that video. I made it clear to him and his brother that I would go to the police if it carried on.”
The 27-year-old’s mum subscribed to the Ex On The Beach star’s OnlyFans after her daughter rang her telling her about the video.
“It’s brazen and he knows what he’s done,” Georgia continued. “That’s so stupid on his part and evil. It was on there for a month. His main verified account that he uses every day.”
“I’ve seen the promotion when he puts me at 50 per cent off. I’ve seen the screenshots,” Georgia continued. “I’m hurt, upset and ashamed. I deserve justice for what I’ve been through and he deserves the consequences.”
Bear first took the witness stand on December 8 took to give evidence.
He told the court: “I’m getting messages on Instagram calling me names – vile piece of s**t, nonce. They were personal attacks. There must have been over a thousand.”
“So I heard about it in the DMs. ‘I can’t believe what you did to Georgia’. Georgia who? ‘Georgia Harrison’. So I looked on her stories and I was like, ‘Woah. It’s something you don’t hear everyday. I believe I messaged her saying, ‘What are you doing?’”
Speaking on his arrest at Heathrow Airport on January 15, Bear added: “Unbelievable. Four armed men arrested me on my birthday. Lovely.”
Asked by defence barrister Gemma Rose whether he intended to record Georgia during sex, the Ex On The Beach star said: “Never.”
When asked whether he shared the video via WhatsApp, he claimed: “No that’s a complete lie. The moment she asked me to delete it I did,” and asked whether he had uploaded the video to OnlyFans, he said: “Never.”
Bear alleged he said it wasn’t Georgia in the video to “save her from embarrassment,” but prosecutor Jacqueline Carey questioned: “How is calling her an attention seeker protecting her? You don’t actually care about Georgia Harrison do you?”
The prosecutor claimed the Ex On The Beach star was active on his OnlyFans account on November 9 to subscribe to TOWIE star Lauren Goodger.
Bear replied: “I’d like to add I’ve slept with Lauren.”
The Ex On The Beach star also followed Gemma Lucy, Chloe Khan and accounts with the usernames The Naughty Cleaner and The Masked Lady.
“I’ve had many girlfriends in the press with high followings but I didn’t do it to them,” he told the court. “So why is Georgia the chosen one?”
“I put in my best performance every time I have sexual intercourse with the ladies. If it’s 20 minutes long, you’ve put in a good performance. Wasn’t the old three-minute wonder.”
Questioned about the reaction to the video, Bear said: “It was like a national witch hunt. I was trending on Twitter.”
Prosecutor Jacqueline Carey replied: “And you loved that didn’t you. There’s no such thing as bad publicity for you, is there Mr. Bear? People were saying you were a s**t and a nonce.”
