STEPHEN Bear claimed he has slept with reality TV's Lauren Goodger as he is accused of sharing a sex tape of another Towie star.
He also made almost £40k from OnlyFans in the weeks after he allegedly posted a video of him and Georgia Harrison having sex on the X-rated platform.
Asked in court whether that was good money, the CBB winner said: “I got offered almost £50k to do Celebrity Big Brother again so it depends what you call good money.”
Jurors heard his NatWest account, which was the only bank account connected to his @hollywoodbear profile, had been nearly £13k in debt on November 9 2020.
Bear, 32, gave evidence from the witness box on how he claims to have reacted when he found out the sex tape had gone public while in Dubai.
He told the court: "I’m getting messages on Instagram calling me names – vile piece of s***, nonce. They were personal attacks. There must have been over a thousand.
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“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?’”
On his arrest at Heathrow Airport on January 15 last year after claiming to have drunk and partied every day for two months, Bear added: “Unbelievable. Four armed men arrested me on my birthday. Lovely.”
Quizzed by his defence barrister Gemma Rose on whether he intended to record Georgia, he replied: “Never”.
On whether he sent the video on WhatsApp, Bear said: “No that’s a complete lie. The moment she asked me to delete it I did.”
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Asked whether he uploaded it to OnlyFans, he replied: “Never”.
Bear claimed he said it wasn’t Georgia in the video to “save her from embarrassment", but prosecutor Jacqueline Carey said: “How is calling her an attention seeker protecting her? You don’t actually care about Georgia Harrison do you?”
The prosecution claimed he was active on his OnlyFans on November 9 to subscribe to Lauren Goodger. Bear replied: “I’d like to add I’ve slept with Lauren.”
He also followed Gemma Lucy, Chloe Khan and accounts called The Naughty Cleaner and The Masked Lady.
Bear said: “I’ve had many girlfriends in the press with high followings but I didn’t do it to them. So why is Georgia the chosen one?”
He added: “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.”
Asked about the reaction to the video, he said: “It was like a national witch hunt. I was trending on Twitter.”
Ms 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*** and a nonce.”
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