Stephen Bear removes Jemma Lucy tattoo after Charlotte Crosby lasers off tribute to ex Mitch Jenkins

STEPHEN Bear has shared the painful process of having his half-heart tattoo removed - a year after getting it done with then-girlfriend Jemma Lucy.

The Celebrity Big Brother winner, who's now going out with Just Tattoo Of Us co-host Charlotte Crosby,

uploaded a video of him in a special surgery, getting the inking on his thumb lasered off.

After his committed girlfriend Charlotte decided in May to remove the tattoo she and her ex Mitch Jenkins got, Bear chose to do the same.

Tattoo removals are notoriously painful as they involve lasers penetrating the skin to erase the pigment of the tatt.

And 27-year-old Stephen - who is more used to messing with other people's body art for TV - was grimacing in the clip he uploaded to Instagram.

He introduced it by saying: "So today I'm getting a tattoo removed, it's gonna be pretty painful.

"Wish me luck."

Stephen's appointment comes just over a month after his 27-year-old girlfriend Charlotte got the tattoo tribute to ex Mitch on her elbow erased.

Stephen's ex Jemma is yet to have her half of the tattoo heart lasered off.

In May, she cast aspersions on Bear's relationship with Charlotte, saying she thinks it will last "months".

Jemma also confessed to friends that she was missing her time with Bear.

While Stephen and Jemma no longer talk, Charlotte seems to be on friendly terms with ex Mitch following their break-up in August 2015.

After bumping into him in Thorpe Park in June, she was caught out liking all his Instagram pics taken with his new girlfriend.

Charlotte and her "action man" Stephen moved in together in June after announcing that they want to have numerous children.

Meanwhile Charlotte's new autobiography - which includes the revelation she slept with Made In Chelsea's Alex Mytton - has been selling like hotcakes.

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