Reality TV star Georgia Harrison to be awarded MBE

Reality TV star Georgia Harrison is set to be made a Member of the Order of the British Empire at Windsor Castle in honour of her services tackling online privacy and cybercrime awareness.

The 30-year-old has spent the past couple of years turning her hand to campaigning on violence against women and girls, after becoming a victim of revenge porn.

In 2021, the TV star waived her right to anonymity amid a trial that saw her ex-partner, Stephen Bear, accused of sharing a secretly recorded sex tape of her on adult content website OnlyFans.

Bear, also a reality TV star, served 10 and a half months of a 21-month sentence after being found guilty of voyeurism and of two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress.

In April 2023, the month after he was sentenced, 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.

She 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 meeting 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, which was released earlier in the year.

Harrison rose to prominence on The Only Way Is Essex in 2014, and she has also appeared on Love Island, Celebrity Ex On The Beach and Channel 4 reality show Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, which she won with boxer Lani Daniels.