Georgia Harrison says 'revenge porn' video of her having sex was like a 'house fire'

Reality star Georgia Harrison has compared the leaking of a private video of herself with Stephen Bear to a “house fire” because of the speed at which it spread. Former Celebrity Big Brother winner Bear walked out of prison in January, having served 10-and-a-half months of his 21-month sentence for sharing a film of him having sex with Harrison on his OnlyFans site.

Harrison told MPs on the Women and Equalities Committee the video “went viral to a point I can’t explain” as it spread around multiple porn sites and was circulated on WhatsApp. She added: “It absolutely horrified me that an individual had done this to me but what most horrified me was that these platforms were hosting these videos that were unconsented. For many that I tried to reach out to I got an automated response saying we will get back to you within four to six days.

“When something like this is happening it really is like a house fire and the quicker you can put it out, the quicker you can stop it. “Unfortunately in four to six days your house has burnt down, everyone knows about this video – your family, your workplace, your peers, it’s too late.”

Disgraced TV star Stephen Bear was ordered to pay around £27,000 after being convicted of disclosing private sexual images and voyeurism. Stephen Bear, 34, from Loughton, was ordered to make the payments in a Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) hearing.

Bear gained £22,305 in profit by sharing CCTV footage of himself and fellow reality TV star Georgia Harrison having sex in a garden on OnlyFans that she was unaware was being recorded. He was jailed for 21 months and released in January after serving 10-and-a-half months of his sentence.

Discussing her revenge porn ordeal, Georgia Harrison told MPs: “I feel like one of the biggest challenges in general is these big social media companies who are hosting pornographic images and videos, they don’t have any way of us getting through to them to report it when there is something unconsented there.

“It shouldn’t be robots that you get through to when it’s this important a situation, it shouldn’t be that hard to get through to someone. I’m not saying delete it, I’m not saying take this person’s account down, I’m just saying can we pause it and then review it in a few weeks and I think that is the biggest issue we are dealing with at the moment.

“Then they could go back and review it and if whoever is in it hasn’t consented, it will never go back up, but if after review both people have consented the footage is still there to get put back on the platform.

“But I think if something gets to the level where you say this is me in a sexually explicit act and I have not given permission, it should be paused that day, not in four to six days.”

Georgia Harrison said she considered giving up on the legal process, saying: “I knew that I couldn’t speak through that timeline until I got to the court process, and I thought shall I just give up so I can speak my truth to the public. But I knew what I was doing I had to push on with no matter what.”

Discussing waiving her anonymity, she said: “I really do feel my anonymity was removed as soon as the video went up anyway, because everyone I knew friendship-wise, colleague–wise, family-wise, which is your main concern when something like this happens were already aware of the video.

“So I felt like my anonymity didn’t really exist. I felt I had been at such an injustice not just by the man that had done it to me but by the platforms that used me to make money on their behalf, they literally used this unconsented money to make money off me, and I felt it was something I didn’t ever want to happen in the future.”

Georgia Harrison said: “My body deteriorated with my emotions” after she discovered the revenge porn video she was in online. For the first few days, I was really just going through waves of complete sorrow and shock,” she said.

“It got to the point where I was so emotionally affected by what happened to me that I ended up being physically ill as well to the point where I was in hospital for five days over Christmas a little bit after the incident because the stress took such an effect on my body.

“I ended up having a cyst burst and I got an infection and literally it was just like my body deteriorated with my emotions.”Georgia Harrison said her revenge porn ordeal has given her “a lot of fear” at the prospect of starting a family.

She said: “I know whenever I’m dating, meeting new people going into any sort of a new work opportunity I am known as the person who has this sex tape which I never ever filmed and never consented to be out there. “So it changed a lot for me and it definitely gives me a lot of fear for one day, if I do have a family, which is something that was always my intention, are my children going to be able to stumble across this footage?

“Because I’m not protected in the right way by the Government for that not to be an issue right now.” Harrison said the footage that was taken of her should be made illegal.