In a short social media video, stephen bear and his 18-year-old girlfriend held up a miniature Brazilian football babygro, smiled at a small screen showing a heartbeat, and let a moment of giddy pride land between them. The clip shows a scan, a tiny garment emblazoned with ‘Bear’ and the number nine, and the couple exchanging the simple line: “Guys, we have a baby. ” It was an announcement that folded private joy into a public record.
Stephen Bear: the announcement and the immediate details
Stephen Bear, 35, posted the video in which he said, “Very excited to announce me and my beautiful wife are having a baby!!! Can’t wait to be a dad. ” His partner adds, “Guys, we have a baby, ” as he cheers. They say the pregnancy is three months along and that “the doctor says it’s fit and healthy. ” The pair also said they will not find out the baby’s sex yet, and joked that, because he is English and his partner is Brazilian, their child will “play for the Brazilian national football team. ” Footage in the post includes the scan and the baby’s heartbeat and the couple holding a tiny Brazilian team babygro bearing the name Bear on the back.
How the past shapes the announcement
The celebratory footage arrives alongside a legal history that was made public at the time of sentencing. Bear was sentenced to 21 months in prison in March 2023 after a jury found him guilty of voyeurism by a majority verdict and guilty of two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress by a unanimous verdict. At sentencing, he was ordered not to contact his Love Island ex-girlfriend Georgia Harrison for five years, to sign the sex offenders register, and was given a restraining order. He was released in January 2024 after serving half his sentence at HMP Brixton.
Financial penalties were also imposed: he was ordered to pay £22, 305 to be given to HM Treasury for distribution to police charities and to pay £5, 000 in compensation for emotional and financial distress. Moments from his past remain part of the public record, including a video clip from Brazil in which he said, “The police can’t catch me now. Life’s good. ” Those lines and the court orders form the legal context for this new chapter of impending parenthood.
What comes next for the couple and the public
The couple say they will wait to learn their baby’s sex and have shared scans and heartbeat footage in the announcement. The pregnant partner is described in public posts as 18 years old. The decision to reveal the pregnancy after the three-month mark follows the timetable the couple described in their video: “I’ve been wanting to tell you lot for a few weeks but it has to be three months old before we announce the news. I’m over the moon. ” Beyond that timetable, the public record contains legal obligations that remain in force from the earlier conviction, and the child’s arrival will intersect with those conditions.
This moment—holding up a tiny babygro and watching a heartbeat on a screen—is a private beginning made public. The video strings together celebration and reminder: the new family claim of a name, the scan images, and the history of criminal conviction and financial penalties. Those elements sit side by side in the announcement, leaving unresolved questions about how past punishments and protections will influence daily life going forward.
Back in the video that opened this story, the tiny garment with ‘Bear’ on the back and the steady rhythm of a fetal heartbeat closed the circle. For now, the couple have leaned into that small, human certainty—the coming child—and shared it with an audience. Whether joy, concern or both follow, the image of a small babygro and that scan will remain the first public frame of a new life.
