Georgia Harrison Blasts the Toxic Manosphere as Stephen Bear Faces Conviction Again

TOWIE’S Georgia Harrison endured years of hell after her ex-lover Stephen Bear put an illegal sex tape of them on OnlyFans.

But despite being convicted in 2022 and being sentenced to 21 months in prison, Georgia’s ordeal wasn’t over.

Georgia Harrison was subjected to a deranged campaign of abuse on social media after Stephen Bear was released from prison Credit: Dan Charity Stephen Bear, pictured in 2024, will be sentenced next month at Chelmsford Crown Court Credit: PA

Today we can reveal, sincefrom Brixton prison for his crimes against he embarked on yet another deranged campaign of abuse against her on social media.

Disgraced Bear, 36, will be sentenced next month at Chelmsford Crown Court after pleading guilty to breaching the terms of the restraining order against him.

In social media posts, some viewed millions of times, he accused Georgia of being part of a conspiracy against him and that the guilty verdict was also a result of this plot against him.

The posts, made whilst Georgia was pregnant, featured photos of her alongside defamatory statements which left her distressed and traumatised.

The rants are straight out of the manosphere playbook – one employed by who claimed the “matrix” is out to get him after he was accused of charges.

Bear’s social media campaign of abuse has only served to propel Georgia, 31, in her plans to tackle the manosphere head on with a new foundation to challenge the culture online.

Speaking to The Sun after Bear’s sentencing was set, Georgia said: “I didn’t go to court this week.

“I didn’t stay away because it’s too hard.

“I stayed away because being there would give him the one thing he has always wanted, and the one thing the manosphere machine runs on: attention.

“A reaction and a spectacle.

“He shared intimate footage of me without my consent, and when the law caught up with him, he came back for more – because the attention was worth more to him than the consequences.

“That’s not just a man with a problem.

“That’s a man doing exactly what the system rewards.

“And that culture is the thing I want to help change now.”

Bear was arrested in January 2021 following an investigation after he uploaded CCTV footage of himself having sex with his then ex-girlfriend Georgia Harrison to his account.

and sentenced to 21 months in prison for voyeurism and disclosing private, sexual photographs and films.

He was also given a five year restraining order forbidding contact with Georgia.

After being released in January 2024, after serving just half his sentence inside, he took to social media in a bid to harass Georgia and claim his convictions were false.

In 2022, Bear was found guilty and sentenced to 21 months in prison for voyeurism and disclosing private, sexual photographs and films Credit: ITV Georgia, now a mum to a beautiful daughter, hasn’t stopped trying to raise awareness about image based abuse Credit: ITV

She quickly reported him to Essex Police, who once again took his behaviour seriously.

Condemning Bear’s disgusting behaviour, investigating officer for the restraining order breach, Detective Constable Swarv Stafin said: “Stephen Bear’s behaviour is not okay and it should not be normalised or accepted.

“The impacts of being harassed are very real.

“It causes a great deal of stress and anxiety – it is something no-one should have to experience.

“The fact that he has admitted the charge against him shows he knew very well what he was doing was wrong and he knew he was breaching the restraining order.

“I want to pay tribute to Georgia’s courage and the dignity she has shown throughout the initial investigation and while Bear attempted to discredit her following his sentencing.”

Last year the Revenge Porn Helpline recorded 22,275 reports of private images being shared online – a rise of 20.9per cent on the previous year.

In recent years the manosphere has gained widespread attention after Andrew Tate, Hamza Ahmen and HS Tikky Tokky gained popularity with young boys and men on social media.

They all preach the value of strong men and traditional gender roles, with experts claiming they often promoting misogynistic views.

In social media posts, some viewed millions of times, Bear accused Georgia of being part of a conspiracy against him Credit: PA Georgia will continue to take on the manosphere with a new foundation Credit: PA

When challenged, they often cite the matrix or an outside conspiracy working against them to stop men realising the real “truth”.

Georgia will continue to take on the manosphere with a new foundation called which will tackle online culture that the younger generation are growing up in.

She has the backing of Labour MP who said: “What Georgia Harrison has done takes a courage most people will never be asked to find. She turned something that was done to her into a change in the law that protects other women – and she is now turning it into something bigger still.

“This Foundation matters because it understands the real fight. This was never just about one man or one case. It’s about the manosphere – a thriving industry that monetises contempt for women and grooms boys to follow – and those platforms who let it pay.

“Bans and arrests have their place, but you cannot police your way out of a culture this profitable. Georgia is asking the question the country has dodged for too long: what do we owe the next generation, and who is going to stand up for them? I’d urge people across politics to get behind the answers”

Georgia, , hasn’t stopped trying to raise awareness about image based abuse, including fronting two documentaries Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear (2023) and and the two-part series Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit (2025).

Last year, to the prevention of violence against women and girls.

And her foundation will further that work by attacking the one thing that keeps the manosphere powerful – it’s grip on social media.

Georgia Harrison found fame originally on Love Island Credit: ITV The moment Georgia was awarded an MBE for services to the prevention of violence against women and girls Credit: PA

Georgia added: “We’ve built an attention economy where outrage is the most powerful currency and it doesn’t matter how you earn it.

“It pays more to be cruel than kind.

“So you watch people start with something that’s just a bit nasty, a bit degrading, and you watch it escalate, because every step over the line gets rewarded with more reach, more money, more relevance.

“What begins as deeply immoral ends up downright illegal, and at no point does anyone with power step in and say enough.

“That’s the road my abuser walked.

“He is not particularly unusual.

“He is the product.

“This is what people get wrong about the manosphere.

“It isn’t a few angry men in a corner of the internet.

“It’s a business model.

“There are people monetising contempt for women in plain sight, names you could find in thirty seconds, and the platforms and payment systems carry them because outrage performs.

“We are letting algorithms raise our children and calling it free speech.

“That’s why I am saying you cannot wall off a culture.

“There’s a lot of talk about banning under-16s from social media, and I understand the instinct – but it treats a symptom and leaves the cause alone.

“A boy doesn’t learn to despise women from one app you can switch off.

“He learns it from an entire economy built to keep him angry.

“You change that with education, with accountability, and by making the people who profit from this answer for it.

“This isn’t really an argument about the internet even.

“It’s an argument about the kind of country we want to be.

“The culture young people grow up in online isn’t a problem to manage later – it’s a first-order question about what we owe the next generation, and right now we are selling them badly short.

“A country that builds young men up faster than the grifters can recruit them, and gives the women they target a real person to turn to.

“I don’t think that’s naive.

“I think it’s the whole point.”