PUSHING yourself to the limits successful brutal conditions, each portion soldiers shriek astatine you, would beryllium excessively overmuch for astir radical – but not Georgia Harrison.
Having won overmuch harder fights successful her idiosyncratic life, she’s sailed done to the last four of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
“There were a mates of times I wanted to quit, I was conscionable truthful broken. But I kept pushing through, due to the fact that I cognize a batch of young women look up to me. I anticipation they spot however beardown you tin be, some mentally and physically,” she says.
Georgia, 29, roseate to fame connected The Only Way Is Essex successful 2014, earlier appearing connected Love Island successful 2017.
But for the last two years, she has been amended known for battling for justness aft her ex-boyfriend Stephen Bear secretly filmed them having enactment successful December 2020, past uploaded the footage to OnlyFans.
Georgia waived her anonymity to talk up for different revenge porn victims, portion Bear was jailed successful March 2023 and subsequently released successful January aft serving 10 and a fractional months.
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“A batch of radical say: ‘You were strong,’ but realistically, I had nary different choice,” Georgia explains. “I had to bash what I could to get done it. Whereas, with Celebrity SAS, I chose to bash it to spot however beardown I truly am.
“What I went done implicit that mates of years has built a furniture of resilience. I’m built stronger for thing going forward.”
It wasn’t conscionable the acquisition of pushing herself that Georgia gained from the show, she’s forged deep friendships with immoderate different personage contestants, too.
“Bianca [Gascoigne] is similar my big sister now. I ended up having a truly weird relationship with Rachel Johnson, which wasn’t expected. We are from specified antithetic worlds, but we got on like a location connected fire.”
Did Rachel spill the beans connected her member Boris? “Sometimes we dipped into the conversation,” she reveals.
“But you could archer she didn’t truly privation to talk astir it successful the environment we were in.”
Georgia Harrison opens up astir overcoming her revenge porn ordeal and hard journey
Georgia is getting utilized to rubbing shoulders with politicians, having spoken astatine the Labour Party league past month.
“I’ve met Keir Starmer doubly now. He’s precise passionate astir [the contented of] unit against women and girls, and helium wants to bash his champion to [bring about] change,” she says.
“I truly similar his quality – he’s going to beryllium a large leader. I’m assured that they are going to curb unit against women and girls.
“But past clip I saw him, I spilled a full solid of redwineover myself! He was astir apt reasoning ‘Who dragged her backwards into Downing Street?!’”
Two years connected from her ordeal, Georgia inactive finds it hard to judge it really happened.
As if Bear’s betrayal and the thought of millions of strangers watching your astir intimate moments wasn’t capable to contend with, Georgia besides mislaid her champion friend, Cenk Fahri, 26, to leukaemia, followed by her ex-boyfriend Jake McLean successful a car clang in August 2022, aged 33.
Jake was the lone idiosyncratic I decently loved successful my life
“I don’t cognize however I managed to get done it,” she says.
“I consciousness truly sorry for that mentation of me. My champion person had leukaemia connected and disconnected since helium was astir 17, and I stayed with him successful the hospital for a batch of his treatment.
“And I was ever successful interaction with my ex. We’d known each different since we were 15. They were some truly large supports to maine and gave maine spot for the court case.
“I knew Cenk was ill, but I believed helium would marque it. Losing him crushed me for months. I went into a horrible authorities of grieving, wherever thing mattered.
"I yet got to a constituent where I was feeling beardown again, and past my ex died unexpectedly successful a car crash. I was successful interaction with him a mates of days [earlier], talking astir gathering up soon.
"He was the lone idiosyncratic I truly decently loved successful my full life, truthful to suffer him six months earlier the tribunal case. . . I didn’t deliberation I was going to cope.
"I retrieve saying to my mum: ‘We could driblet the tribunal case. I don’t attraction astir thing anymore.’
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“I wouldn’t wash, my person came implicit and bathed me. I couldn’t bash anything, truthful the thought of being beardown capable to put a suit connected and springiness a witnesser connection seemed retired of this satellite to me. But somehow, I managed to bash it.
“Before I went into Celebrity SAS, I felt bully and steadfast arsenic I’d been training.
"But the nighttime before, I was flooded with emotion. Everything astir my ex deed me. I was hysterically crying until 5am, past I realised it was precisely a twelvemonth since helium died.
“I’m successful a overmuch amended spot now, but for a agelong clip I lived successful fearfulness that thing atrocious was going to happen. I recovered it hard to beryllium blessed successful lawsuit thing knocked maine disconnected my feet.”
With Bear present retired of prison, does Georgia interest astir bumping into him?
“If I walked past him, my bosom would drop, but I don’t ever consciousness similar I’d person to interest astir him approaching me. I have a [five-year] restraining order, but I want it lengthened.”
And contempt the tribunal ruling Bear had to wage Georgia £207,900 successful damages (the highest magnitude ever awarded successful an representation maltreatment case), arsenic good arsenic an other £27,000 for compensation and to wage backmost profits he’d made from the video, he’s yet to springiness her anything.
Although, helium has paid the confiscation bid of £22,305 to the Home Office.
“It blows my mind,” she says. “I ne'er managed to retrieve a penny, due to the fact that helium got escaped of astir of his money.
"He sold his location from prison, which was worthy £500,000. Apparently, determination are indebtedness collectors, but who knows what is really near to collect?”
If you triumph a tribunal case, similar I did, your footage should go illegal
Georgia’s ordeal is inactive astatine the forefront of her caput arsenic she films the follow-ups to her 2023 documentary Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear.
“I decidedly didn’t expect it to go arsenic large arsenic it did. It was connected each news channel,” she says.
“I’m presently moving connected 2 caller projects with ITV, looking into antithetic areas of image-based intersexual abuse, who is making the wealth from it, and deepfakes.
"They are coming retired successful January. I’m investigating wherever my video ended up, however galore radical viewed it and wherefore it’s truthful accessible.
“Even though I’ve healed from the emotion of the archetypal experience, I’m inactive accepting that nine allows it to beryllium online. One happening that needs to alteration is if you triumph a tribunal case, similar I did, your footage should go illegal.
“To spell done a tribunal lawsuit and truly exposure yourself during the trial, look your perpetrator and get to the extremity of it, past the images inactive enactment online, adjacent if you win. . . And your footage is inactive technically owned by them.
What is the instrumentality astir revenge porn?
According to gov.uk…
Revenge Porn is the sharing of private, intersexual materials, either photos oregon videos, of different person, without their consent and with the intent of causing embarrassment oregon distress.
The offence applies some online and offline, and to images which are shared electronically oregon successful a much accepted mode truthful it includes the uploading of images connected the internet, sharing by substance and e-mail, oregon showing idiosyncratic a carnal oregon physics image.
The maximum punishment for revenge porn is 2 years successful jailhouse and a fine.
“I enactment alongside Revenge Porn Helpline – there’s 1 miss who works determination who’s wholly dedicated to my imagery.
"She does everything she tin to effort to get it taken down from each of these antithetic places. They’re perfectly astonishing for victims, but they request much authorities support.”
Knowing the footage of her and Bear is inactive online has affected Georgia’s emotion life, too, and she has been azygous since splitting with Anton Danyluk, who she met connected Love Island: All Stars, in May.
“I’m conscionable dating and seeing wherever things go,” she says. “But 100% [I interest they’ve seen the video].
"They astir ever are alert of it. I consciousness similar it’s an elephant successful the room. I volition speech astir definite things, waiting for it to travel up. It’s thing I decidedly conflict with.
“I conscionable anticipation that whoever I bash conscionable volition beryllium knowing astir it. That’s wherefore I’m trying truthful hard to alteration the law, due to the fact that I’d similar to deliberation that 1 day, I could unrecorded in a satellite wherever I don’t person to interest astir my hubby seeing this.
"Hopefully one time I volition person kids, and that’s my biggest fearfulness – them uncovering it.”
‘Ronnie is azygous again – truthful you ne'er know!’
Did the betrayal by Bear – who she met successful 2019 – make it harder for her to spot men?
“I don’t think so. Although that horrible concern happened to me, I’ve besides had immoderate relationships that person been lovely. I person a batch of friends whose partners are amazing.
"I don’t uncertainty that determination are bully men retired there. I consciousness rather optimistic astir relationships.”
She has adjacent enlisted her champion friend, chap Love Islander Olivia Attwood, and her footballer hubby Bradley Dack, to help.
“I don’t cognize what I would bash without Liv,” Georgia says.
“She’s my champion friend. She volition beryllium by my broadside astatine my wedding, conscionable similar I was astatine hers. I consciousness similar radical tin effort to claw astatine each different successful this industry, whereas Liv volition ever person my best interests astatine heart.
"She’s fixed it a bully spell trying to acceptable maine up. We’ve had a look astatine immoderate of Brad’s friends.
"There are a fewer of them that are rather fit! Ronnie [Vint, 27, who appeared connected this year’s Love Island] is blistery and he’s azygous again. You ne'er know!”
It’s nary astonishment that going done thing truthful traumatic has changed Georgia. It was evident erstwhile she appeared connected Love Island: All Stars successful January.
“I was a batch much light-hearted before,” she says, sadly.
“It’s decidedly made maine much serious. Sometimes, my mates will nonstop videos of maine from before, and I deliberation ‘Oh, I’d emotion to inactive beryllium similar that.’ I’m much hyper-vigilant now, and little carefree.
"I ever interest if someone’s listening oregon determination are cameras successful definite places. I inactive privation to beryllium empowered but if I look astatine my beingness anterior to it, I was much unfastened to being sexy successful public.
“I wasn’t consenting to deterioration the underwear successful The Hideaway or do sexy dances. The boys were truly respectful – they knew I was acrophobic astir putting myself successful a concern wherever trolls tin leap connected me.
"The commentary would beryllium ‘She was truthful upset astir this video, but she’s blessed to spell connected TV successful her underwear.’ But [what I’ve gone through] has besides made maine much empathetic and knowing to different people. I’m arrogant of myself.”
Now, arsenic she prepares to crook 30, Georgia is looking to the future. “I’m blessed to permission my 20s behind,” she laughs.
“Thirty is simply a large one, but I’m successful the strongest spot I’ve ever been, truthful I’m going to clasp it. I’m blessed with who I americium and what I’m doing.”
- Watch the Celebrity SAS final, tomorrow, 9pm, Channel 4.