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A picture show the moment Stephen Bear was arrested at Heathrow on his birthday returning from Dubai in January 2021.
The 33-year-old was detained after police were told he had shared a secret sex tape of his ex-girlfriend, Love Island contestant Georgia Harrison.
Bear hid in the airport bathrooms for five minutes before he was arrested and police searched bags belonging to him and his brother for electronic devices.
The disgraced Celebrity Big Brother contestant had shared a secret sex tape of 28-year-old Georgia on OnlyFans - making £2,000 from it online.
Judge Christopher Morgan today jailed Bear for 21 months and issued a restraining order against the TV personality.
Bear was arrested by police as he arrived in Heathrow on his 31st birthday in 2021. He has now been jailed for posting the sex tape of his former girlfriend on OnlyFans
Bear was arrested on his 31st birthday in January 2021. Bear denied travelling with his brother but during a search at the police station officers found a sim card key in his joggers
In the picture which was released by Essex Police, several officers can be seen surrounding the television personality, who turned 31 on the day he was arrested in January 2021.
Dressed in an neon orange jacket and a bright yellow zip-up hoody, the Celebrity Big Brother contestant was detained by officers.
Prosecutor Jacqueline Carey KC told Chelmsford Crown Court that Bear spent five minutes in the toilet of the jet before being taken into police custody.
Officers searching his suitcase and another bearing his brother's name, Robert Bear, said they could not find a phone or any other electronic device.
Bear denied travelling with his brother but during a search at the police station officers found a sim card key in his joggers.
The disgraced Celebrity Big Brother contestant, 33, shared a secret sex tape of 28-year-old Georgia on OnlyFans in November 2020 - making £2,000 from it online.
It had been captured on CCTV cameras in Bear's garden on August 2, 2020 before being uploaded to the video subscription site and WhatsApp.
Ms Carey told jurors Bear upped his OnlyFans subscription price after it began to attract attention from people talking about the video online, increasing it from seven to 50 dollars before logging in 90 minutes later to reduce it to 20.
Stephen Bear arrives for his sentencing hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates Court and makes a 'peace sign' to photographers. He is pictured with fiancée Jessica Smith
She said: 'The suggestion that his account was hacked at all is palpable nonsense. He was the only person who had access by December 7.
'And he was the only one to profit from the subscription hike. By December 7 the rumour mill was going.
'He was getting traction on social media, a lot of people were looking at him. That is why he put the price up, so he could make a quick buck.'
Gemma Rose, defending Bear, told the jury: 'You may not agree with Mr Bear's views or his work online but this is not a court of morals. You must judge the case on the evidence that is put before you.
'He received around £40,000 from OnlyFans but in respect of that video OnlyFans state the payment was 2,000 dollars.'
Ms Harrison said after the video was shared online 'I was in the worst state of my life.'
'I can't explain the shame I felt. I did not want to leave my room. Instead of apologising, he put his subscription price up from £25 to £50,' she told the court.
'If he did it or not, which I believe he did, that is no way to act. It is brazen and he knows what he has done.'
Ms Harrison, who appeared on The Only Way Is Essex, was left devastated by the sex tape, with a judge today saying she had suffered 'extensive humiliation and embarrassment' at the hands of her perverted former lover.
Judge Christopher Morgan, sentencing Bear, said the shamed TV personality 'wished to exploit the economic value of the recording' of Bear and Ms Harrison having sex.
'I'm sure that you recognised the enhanced economic value to you by having Georgia Harrison, a well-known reality TV and social media personality, in the video,' the judge told the court.
Georgia Harrison leaves court on Friday afternoon after hearing her ex-boyfriend Stephen Bear, who shared intimate videos of her online, sent down for 21 months
'Relieved': Bear's victim Georgia Harrison (right) is embraced after seeing her ex-boyfriend being jailed for posting a secret sex tape of them together on OnlyFans
Ms Harrison told the trial she met Bear in 2012 and the two went on the reality show The Challenge in 2018, where they began a relationship. The pair are pictured together in 2019
Bear's victim, Georgia Harrison (left) arrives at court on Friday to witness the pervert's sentencing. She is accompanied by her mother Nicola (right) and and Michelle Roycroft of Holcon Associates
'She would have been known and recognised by many people.'
Ms Harrison made an emotional statement outside court after listening to her ex-boyfriend be sentenced to 21 months in prison.
'Today's sentence is a vindication of what I've been put through and sends a clear message that the police and the courts take this matter very seriously,' she added.
'I want to let all other victims of this crime know that I stand in solidarity with them and I have absolutely no regrets in waiving my anonymity. I hope that this puts anyone off committing this sort of crime and I hope for anyone else who's been a victim of it gives them some sort of justice.'
Georgia, who bravely waived her anonymity, today opened up about the devastation
