Stephen Bear

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Stephen Henry Bear (born 15 January 1990) is an English former television personality and convicted sex offender. After appearing as a contestant on the E4 reality series Shipwrecked in 2011, he went on to appear on the MTV reality show Ex on the Beach, as a cast member in the third and fifth series respectively. He won the eighteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, and subsequently went on to appear in various other shows including Celebs Go Dating, Just Tattoo of Us, and three series of The Challenge. In March 2023, Bear was jailed for disclosing private sexual photographs and films of his former girlfriend with intent to cause distress.

Stephen Henry Bear was born in Walthamstow, London, on 15 January 1990, the youngest of four children born to Stephen and Linda Bear (née Simons). He has two brothers Daniel and Robert, and a sister Hayley. According to his own testimony, he worked as a labourer and then a roofer before he began undertaking work in television.