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Stephen Bear is planning to visit job centre in wake of prison release after revenge porn tape shame
Bear wants to start a new career from scratch out of the limelight.
STEPHEN Bear is planning a visit to the job centre now he has been released from prison as he wants to ditch the showbiz lifestyle, according to an insider.
The former reality star was sentenced to 21 months for voyeurism offences after posting a sex video of Georgia Harrison online without her consent.
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He was released last week on license after serving half of his sentence but he will have to wear an ankle tag and cannot contact Georgia for five years.
Now he plans to turn his back on social media and fame and look for a regular job, and may even have to enlist the job centre for help, a source said.
"Stephen has been living a very different life in prison with a different sort of person that he’d previously been used to," an insider said.
"Naturally, that’s affected him and made him think about what’s right for him.
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"Alongside that, having no influence from social media whilst in jail has snapped him into reality and away from a world which is just about image and fame.
"From here on in, that kind of life isn’t really what he wants any more.
"He was successful as a roofer before he became famous and a life more like that is one that he wants. He’ll either retrain or start at the bottom in a new industry - but something that has some depth about it and isn’t just about showbiz.
";Right now, he’s just enjoying being back with his family again after so long and he’s taking stock of all his options.
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"He might visit the job centre even, a bit of normality is what he’s striving for."
The disgraced star was pictured leaving HMP Brixton sporting a full beard and shorts, a matching T-shirt and a Rosary necklace last week.
Bear was later seen arriving home to "Happy Birthday" banners.
His family also posted pictures showing him enjoying pizza and celebrating his belated 34th birthday.
Bear was also pictured looking clean-shaven as he stepped out to get a coffee and get his eyebrows done.
The source added: "His family are over the moon to have him home and just want to do what they can to keep him safe and on the right track."
Brave Georgia waved her anonymity to speak out against her reality star ex as she accused him of so-called "revenge porn".
She said she had begged Bear not to share the footage after he showed it to her as it would "upset her greatly".
But Georgia was later airdropped the 20 minute clip and discovered it was being offered for pay-per-view on OnlyFans.
Bear had advertised it: “Can’t wait to see me f**k in the garden.”
She said she nearly died due to the stress of fighting him for two-and-a-half years.
"When it first happened, the physical effects on me were just horrific,"; she said.
"I had acne come up all over my face. I ended up getting a cyst infection — the cyst eventually burst — and I was in hospital from stress.
“They said my kidneys, my pelvis, and multiple organs were infected, and I was going into septic shock.”
As well as a jail sentence, Bear has also been placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.
The CBB star has also been told to pay Georgia £207,000 in damages after she took him to the High Court.
His ex girlfriend Jessica Smith, and OnlyFans star, had stood by her man, but dumped him earlier this year.
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Bear has insisted he is a "changed man" and in a post on his X page earlier this month said he "can't wait to get my life back on track."
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