Love Island star Georgia Harrison has said she stands in "solidarity" with revenge porn victims and has "absolutely no regrets of waiving anonymity" following the news of Stephen Bear being jailed.
Her ex-boyfriend was sentenced to 21 months in prison at Chelmsford Crown Court after sharing on the website OnlyFans a CCTV video of them having sex in his garden in Loughton, Essex, on August 2, 2020.
Georgia said she was unaware that she was filmed until Bear showed her the footage and said she told him to "never to send” it to anyone.
Jacqueline Carey KC, prosecuting, said Bear posted it “either himself or had it uploaded to OnlyFans and profited financially”.
The Celebrity Big Brother star denied all charges but in December 2021, he was found guilty of voyeurism and disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress.
This isn't the first time celebrities have spoken out about having images of them shared without their consent – and spoken out about it to empower and educate others…
Zara McDermott
The reality TV star has previously spoken about having intimate images of her shared twice, with one being when she was in secondary school.
Then at the age of 21, pictures circulated of her during her Love Island appearance in 2018.
She said she found out from her publicist after she left the villa.
"I can’t even tell you the feeling, feeling like your parents are ashamed of you," she said in her BBC documentary, Zara McDermott: Revenge Porn.
"How will they look at me the same ever again? It was so embarrassing. I just wanted to die."
The reality star claims that the person who shared it was someone she was seeing before she went onto Love Island.
Bella Thorne
The Babysitter actress posted a series of naked photos of herself on Twitter to get ahead of her blackmailer.
She flipped the script after they threatened to leak them back in 2019.
“I’m putting this out because it’s my decision now,” she wrote at the time.
“You don’t get to take yet another thing from me. I can sleep tonight better knowing I took my power back. You can’t control my life, you never will.”
Rihanna
Naked photos of the pop star were posted online following her break-up with singer Chris Brown in 2009.
She said at the time, it was "the worst thing that could possibly ever happen (to me).”
Brown denied leaking the photos of her online.
Hollywood stars hacked in 2014
Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton were among the celebrities who had their emails and online accounts hacked, between November 2012 to September 2014.
The privacy scandal, which was dubbed 'celebgate', saw over 100 Google and Apple accounts compromised.
Five people were charged over the incident.
Jennifer Lawrence had her nude photos distributed online and labelled the incident a "sex crime."
She previously told Vanity Fair: "Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this. It does not mean that it comes with the territory.
“It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe that we even live in that kind of world.”
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