Love Island star collects honour at Windsor Castle

A reality TV celebrity who has campaigned for safety for women and girls after becoming a victim of an ex-partner sharing sex videos online has been formally appointed MBE at a ceremony at Windsor Castle.

Georgia Harrison, 30, rose to fame after her appearance on ITV's Love Island in 2017.

In 2021, she waived her right to anonymity ahead of a trial that saw Stephen Bear jailed for sharing a secretly recorded sex tape of her on the Only Fans website.

After he was sentenced in 2023, Harrison attended a demonstration, held outside Parliament by domestic violence charity Refuge, calling for specific protections for women and girls to be included in the Online Safety Bill.

Harrison was recognised in the King's Birthday Honours list for services to tackling online privacy and cyber crime awareness, and has been presented with her MBE medal by his son, the Prince of Wales, which she described as a "magical moment".

She said that Prince William told her he had followed her story.

"It was such an amazing opportunity, and I'm really grateful, and I'm 100% going to continue to step up in my campaigning," she said.

"And if anything, this is going to be something that really drives me to continue to evoke change for women everywhere, and I'm really grateful to be given such responsibility."

Bear, also a reality star, was given a 21-month sentence after being found guilty of voyeurism and disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress. He was released from HMP Brixton in 2024 after serving 10 and a half months.

Harrison also called for social media platforms to be "held accountable" for online harassment and abuse, and criticised the justice system for failing to "keep up".

Later that year, she discussed the bill in a Downing Street and met with former technology secretary Michelle Donelan as it returned to the Commons for its final stages.

In 2024, she helped Thames Valley Police launch a campaign about sexual consent titled Consent Conversations.

Harrison explored the prevalence of deepfakes and image-based sexual abuse in an ITV documentary titled Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit.

On her conversation with Prince William, she said: "I basically said that I think it's absolutely amazing that so many women have now been getting guilty verdicts thanks to the change in the law, and it's a lot easier for them.

"I just highlighted that at the moment, if you do report image-based sexual abuse, you have to do it within a six-month window, whereas not everyone always finds out that soon - their footage could have been uploaded, like a year before they find it on a platform. So that's also slightly hindering victims."

She added that people running social media and messaging platforms "need to be getting held accountable... the final step would be for the platform owners to be actually getting some sort of consequence for when they are allowing wrongdoing on the platforms".

As well as Love Island, Harrison has taken part in reality TV shows including Celebrity Ex On The Beach and Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, which she won with boxer Lani Daniels.

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