Reality bites! Penniless sex offender Stephen Bear who once lived in a £400k Essex home and boasted of being a ‘billionaire’ is living with his mum and riding to Aldi on his battered old bike to buy a £3.79 cheese pizza

At the height of his self-promotion driven ‘fame’, Stephen Bear had regular TV work, a million social media followers and an apparently enviable lifestyle with luxury cars, endless designer clothes and a flashy Essex bachelor pad.