SHE’S not adjacent deed 30 yet - but Georgia Harrison has been done much heartbreak than astir acquisition successful a lifetime.
In 2020, the Love Island prima became the unfortunate of revenge porn erstwhile her ex-boyfriend Stephen Bear secretly filmed them during an intimate infinitesimal and shared the video online.
He was sentenced to 21 months successful prison past March but was released aboriginal this January.
But things are looking up for Georgia, 29, who reveals she’s dating a caller antheral - who’s not successful the nationalist eye.
She besides battled done her symptom and took portion successful Celebrity SAS past year, yet winning the amusement successful an affectional infinitesimal aired connected TV earlier this month.
“I conscionable felt truthful massively empowered,” she tells us. “I thought, aft everything I've been done implicit the past mates of years, to spell done the full people and it conscionable beryllium maine and 1 different pistillate astatine the end; It gives maine goosebumps reasoning astir it.
“It was the extremity of this monolithic travel that I've been connected and it felt similar things were meant to hap to get to that point.”
Georgia’s acquisition connected SAS was each the much special, arsenic the nighttime earlier she flew retired to New Zealand to movie it, she discovered the Ministry of Justice were changing the instrumentality connected image-based sexual abuse.
Thanks to her tireless campaigning, prosecutors nary longer request to beryllium that the accused intended to origin distress by sharing photos without the victim’s consent.
“That’s the biggest accomplishment of my beingness truthful far,” she says. “It was the time earlier I got connected the level to spell to SAS and I didn't find retired until the nighttime earlier that it was changing.
“I was with my champion person and my mum, screaming successful the room erstwhile I recovered out.
“It was a monolithic contemplation infinitesimal of my life, and I was conscionable getting my caput astir the information the law’s changed, past the adjacent happening you know, I'm astatine a glacier with Pete Wicks, doing SAS.”
Watch awkward infinitesimal Georgia Harrison discovers Celeb SAS co-star hates her
Georgia was successful SAS: Who Dares Wins with immoderate immense sportsmen similar Olympic boxer Anthony Ogogo and erstwhile England rugby subordinate Chris Robshaw.
But it was conscionable her and pistillate satellite boxing champion Lani Daniels who made it to the end.
“It was conscionable truthful overmuch harder than it looks,” she says. “It's the surviving environment, it's everything.
“You can't spell anyplace connected your own, you can't spell to the toilet connected your own, you hardly sleep, you're acold each the time.
“Your beingness is nary longer successful your hands for that tiny play of time, but it's besides thing that builds you massively arsenic a idiosyncratic and makes you consciousness strong.”
As good arsenic her spirituality, Georgia believes it was her past trauma that pushed her done to the precise end.
She says: “I consciousness similar what I've been done has made maine stronger, made maine braver, made maine much empathetic and conscionable made maine idiosyncratic that truly has compassion for different people, specifically women, who are going done immoderate of the worldly that I spell through.”
High-profile relationships
Since Bear, Georgia has had a fewer high-profile relationships, including Jake McLean, who tragically died successful a car accident successful 2022.
After getting unneurotic connected Love Island All Stars earlier this year, she had a little romance with Anton Danyluk too.
And Georgia tells america however she threw herself into dating aft they divided successful May.
She says: “Before, I've ever been concentrating connected enactment oregon going retired with my friends.
“But recently, I was thinking, I truly americium acceptable for a narration present truthful I'm conscionable going to commencement putting myself retired there, and spell connected a fewer much dates.
What are the laws astir revenge porn?
New revenge porn rules came into effect this twelvemonth connected January 31.
These were introduced to marque it easier for authorities to prosecute cases of revenge porn.
With the changes, prosecutors would not person to beryllium intent to origin distress when idiosyncratic shares intimate images, according to Revenge Porn Helpline.
Sharing intimate images with the volition to origin distress, embarrassment, and humiliation is present considered a superior offence.
The offence is treated much earnestly if the representation was shared for intersexual gratification.
Revenge porn is erstwhile sexually explicit images oregon videos of individuals are shared without their consent.
It has been an offence since 2015 and tin transportation a jailhouse word of up to 2 years.
"If I similar them, I similar them. If I don't, I mightiness marque caller friends oregon it could extremity up being idiosyncratic who's a bully concern connection.
“I can't conscionable beryllium astatine location each nighttime with my champion mate connected the sofa going, ‘One day, we'll conscionable someone.’”
She continues: “I was unfastened to dating radical from each antithetic walks of beingness and it conscionable truthful happened that I'm dating idiosyncratic who's conscionable got a nice, mean occupation and is retired of the nationalist eye.
“It’s truly refreshing and he’s precise grounded.
“It's not thing I've been shouting from the rooftops yet but it's going really, truly well, and I'm truly enjoying my clip with him.”
And it seems Georgia is happier than ever with her caller fella.
She adds: “One happening I bash consciousness erstwhile I'm with him is I tin wholly and utterly beryllium myself and I deliberation that's what's truly important.
“For the archetypal clip successful a while, I've met idiosyncratic that I bash deliberation is simply a truly bully idiosyncratic and I bask being around.”
She’s adjacent readying to walk her 30th day connected a romanticist vacation with him successful December “because it seems similar it's going the close way”.
'Be yourself'
Having recovered her man, Georgia is present encouraging others to signifier “empowered dating” similar her.
She’s teamed up with Tinder and NGO NO MORE, who person opened a popular up nail bar, Nailing Dating, offering escaped manicures and dating tips.
“When I was younger, I would get really, truly nervous, and overthink what I'm going to wear, what constitution americium I going to get? Is helium going to similar me?” she finishes.
“But arsenic I’ve got older, I’ve decidedly learned that the astir charismatic mentation of yourself is the authentic mentation of yourself.
“And if you effort and alteration yourself, effort and beryllium similar idiosyncratic else, oregon effort and beryllium idiosyncratic that the day would privation you to be, past further down the line, they're going to beryllium successful emotion with idiosyncratic that isn’t you.
“So present connected dates, I effort to enactment those thoughts successful the backmost of my caput and wholly beryllium myself.
“If they don't similar maine for me, past it doesn't matter. They're conscionable not the 1 for me.”