By Roxanne "Flashbulb" Starr
Stephen Bear has spent plenty of his career chasing cameras. This week a courtroom camera caught up with him instead.
A court heard that Bear, the reality television personality best known from British dating and lifestyle shows, was jailed over breaches of the requirements placed on him as a registered sex offender. According to the BBC, the court was told Bear had posted from Brazil boasting that "the police will not be able to catch" him.
They did.
The BBC's report does not detail the length of the new sentence or the specific conditions Bear breached, and The American Times has not independently verified those particulars beyond what was reported in court. What is clear from the single source available to us: a judge found the breaches serious enough to send him back to custody, and Bear's own words — boasting about evading capture — were read into the record against him.
Bear has been a fixture of British tabloid culture for over a decade, cycling through reality shows and headline-grabbing controversies. His prior conviction as a sex offender is a matter of public record in the UK. This latest case is narrower: not a new offense against a victim, but an alleged failure to comply with the monitoring conditions that conviction carries.
We're working a single wire report here, and we're saying so. If more detail on the sentence length or the nature of the breach becomes available, we'll update.
If I can't source it, you won't read it here. — Roxanne "Flashbulb" Starr
— Compiled from reporting by the BBC.
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