Stephen Bear’s brother Danny has been unveiled as a millionaire businessman who has worked with Priscilla Presley.
It emerged this month that Stephen – now a convicted sex offender – had been faking his luxury lifestyle, boasting of his wealth and pretending to own luxury items that were believed to be either fake or rented.
Yet in a bizarre twist of fate it’s emerged that while he was pretending to be millionaire he is connected to a wealthy entrepreneur.
Danny Bear, 35, made his fortune after he founded his artisan bakers brand Euphorium in 1999 and sold it to Tesco in 2015 years later.
He has continued to work on businesses, becoming a partner in Shogun Films, and revealed last year he was setting up a global hospitality brand with Priscilla Presley, ex wife of the late Elvis.
Brothers: Stephen Bear’s brother Danny has been unveiled as a millionaire businessman who has worked with Priscilla Presley
The businessman has since branched out to acting and has starred in low-budget gangster crime dramas Renegade and Nemesis.
He has been mentored by British film producer Jonathan Sothcott who told Essex Magazine: ‘I meet so many actors who just don’t have that grit and realness, it is something you just can’t fake.
‘Danny is a natural – he’s a good looking chap, he can act and he’s just got that star quality. I can see him being in a lot of our films going forward, he’s just got that something about him.’
Danny has displayed his luxury lifestyle on Instagram, giving his one million followers a glimpse into his swanky manor in Surrey and his custom built BMW X6 modelled on the Batmobile.
In 2016, Danny revealed he was hoping to branch out into the reality TV business, claiming a fly on the wall show focused on his family could rival The Kardashians.
After Stephen became a household name as the winner of Celebrity Big Brother, Danny revealed he wanted the entire family to shine.
He told The Sun: ‘We’re a family of entertainers – it’s in our DNA.
‘Our old man says: “A day without laughter is a day wasted”. We’re a proper East End family and we’re always laughing and joking. Never mind these Kardashians, we’d make great TV.’
Faking it: It emerged this month that Stephen – now a convicted sex offender – had been faking his luxury lifestyle, boasting of his wealth and pretending to own luxury items
Entrepreneur: Danny Bear, 35, made his fortune after selling his artisan bakers brand to Tesco in 2015 and revealed last year he was setting up a global hospitality brand with Priscilla Presley
Stephen’s family did hit the headlines that year when it was claimed his father was ejected from Elstree Studios on the night of the Celebrity Big Brother final.
Following the end of the show Bear’s father is alleged to have become drunk and disorderly and ranting at security, which ended with the family minus their winning son leaving in a car.
Though it seems that the house trickster wasn’t annoyed with his father in the slightest, as the next day Bear joked about his father’s run-in with security.
He wrote: ‘My dads a legend [sic],’ before adding several crying with laughter emojis.
Earlier this month, Stephen – who is engaged to Jessica Smith – was convicted following a trial at Chelmsford Crown Court with television personality Georgia waiving her right to anonymity afforded to her under the Sexual Offences Act, saying she felt compelled to as so many people knew of the video.
Judge Christopher Morgan jailed Stephen for 21 months and gave him a restraining order not to contact Georgia.
The reality star was also ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register and will be subject to notification requirements for 10 years.
Following the sentencing on March 3, the deputy chief crown prosecutor for East of England, Hannah Von Dadelszen, said that Stephen will be forced to ‘sell any assets he has’ to pay back the £2,100 made on Georgia’s video.
He turned up to his court appearances in lavish spectacles, arriving in pricey vehicles, often clad in a fur coat and waving around a gold topped cane as he played up for the cameras.
Despite giving the illusion of living a lavish lifestyle, with an OnlyFans platform, lavish holidays, designer clothing, Rolexes and jewels which appear to be fakes, Stephen, 33, could now be forced to sell his assets just to pay back the funds he made from posting the video.
He could also lose his £600k three-bed Essex home after struggling to meet the mortgage payments.
He had eight failed businesses and ran his one remaining business from his parents’ house.
Loaded: Danny has displayed his luxury lifestyle on Instagram, giving his one million followers a glimpse into his swanky manor in Surrey
Pricey: Danny also has a custom built BMW X6 modelled on Bruce Wayne’s Batmobile
His company is called Cubanlink Ltd and his parents Linda and Stephen’s home address in Walthamstow is listed as its registered office. Stephen’s occupation is listed on Companies House as a shop-assistant.
Back in 2021, Stephen bragged that he has a cryptocurrency fortune worth over than $200,000 – however his Twitter followers soon pointed out that the accompanying screenshot was a stock image which had been used elsewhere.
He also has a website for his own alleged university in his Facebook bio, where he promises that he can ‘help you earn six figures a year’.
However, the website is down, with an error message stating the domain has not been connected to a site.