The former reality star appeared on ITV shows such as The Only Way is Essex in 2017 and Love Island in 2018, where she entered the villa as a bombshell and gained nationwide fame.
It was during 2019 that she entered MTV’s The Challenge, where she met fellow reality star Bear.
The pair dated on and off for a few months, with Harrison discovering in December 2020 that the now 35-year-old Bear had uploaded intimate CCTV footage of them to streaming service OnlyFans without her consent.
She subsequently reported the crime and Bear was sentenced after being found guilty of voyeurism and two counts of disclosing a private sexual film.
Harrison was then awarded compensation in a damages claim and said she would donate some of the £207,900 to charity.
She says she often feels a “responsibility to help” as she worries about the increase of social media influencers fuelling misogyny and sexism.
Harrison, who is currently expecting her first child, said: “I’d be scared to have a teenager right now, being completely honest, I really would be terrified”.
“We’ve seen with the rise of Andrew Tate and some men thinking the thing to do with women is to mistreat them and think they can do what they want with them,” she said.
She added she feels the need to let women know, “they deserve to be treated fairly, they deserve consent and the right to their own bodies”.
A recent poll of teachers in the UK found three in five believe social media use has had a negative effect on behaviour in schools – with Tate being named as a reason by a number of teachers in the poll.
Harrison says she has been into some schools recently to watch consent workshops with primary school age children, describing them as “brilliant”.
She hopes that these type of lessons will have an impact for the next generation.
“I’d like to think by the time my child gets to the age where consent becomes an issue, things are going to be a lot better, because we are doing something to educate around consent and that’s something that’s never really been done before in this generation,” she added.
