Pregnant Georgia Harrison admits baby was a 'beautiful surprise'

celebrated her 30th birthday in December. It marked not only a new decade, but a new chapter for the star, after a traumatic but .

Two years after championing a change in the law governing explicit content online, Georgia is now settled with new partner Jack Stacey and positively glowing, as she chats excitedly in our exclusive OK! photoshoot with Jack by her side, about expecting their first baby.

After a tireless campaign which led to a change in the law surrounding revenge porn, one could forgive Georgia for maybe wanting to slow down – but in fact, she and Jack, 33, wouldn’t change a thing about their “beautiful surprise”.

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“We both definitely wanted children, but we didn’t quite plan on it this soon, we might’ve tried to have a fun summer beforehand!” Georgia giggles. “But once we’d taken it in, we realised this was the right time.

“It’s amazing to have the gift of being pregnant. So many people struggle for a long time and for some, that dream never comes true. So, we look at the fact that it’s come earlier than expected as a total blessing.”

Preparing to welcome a little one into the has also given Georgia even more drive to change that world for the better, she reveals. “I initially thought of my little sisters and brother when I was campaigning – hoping to make things different for them. Now, I have this whole new drive – I want the world to be a better place because I’m bringing my own child into it.”

The TV personality and documentary-maker met City worker Jack on a dating app last summer, and Georgia admits, she went into the relationship slightly conflicted. Determined to put herself out there and meet Mr Right, but doubtful about her chances.

“If you don’t go to the interview, you’re not going to get the job, are you?” she grins. “I was thinking, ‘I’m nearly 30, I really want to make an effort to meet someone’. But I was quite pessimistic about love in general.

“It took me a while to really believe that someone could treat me so well, but Jack did. Now here we are, living together and about to have a baby! I do believe the things I’ve experienced in my past were meant to lead me to where I am now.”

Having first appeared on TOWIE over a decade ago, followed by in 2017, Georgia is very much part of the reality TV generation of celebrities. That said, she’s undeniably embarked on a very different journey since.

Three years ago, she bravely waived her right to anonymity and testified against a former partner who . Now, she’s largely credited as the driving force behind a government decision to make revenge porn a criminal offence.

In 2023, Georgia was included in the ’s list of the world’s 100 most inspiring and influential women, alongside human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and former US First Lady Michelle Obama, and fronted two critically acclaimed documentaries earlier this year on deepfakes and image-based sexual abuse. She’s rightly very proud of her achievements, and so is Jack.

“She really inspires me,” he tells us. “She’s so strong, and so resilient, and funny. She’s a really easy person to get along with and I’ve honestly loved spending every minute with her, right from the start. You know that excitement when you’re dating someone at 17 and it’s uncomplicated? It’s like that.”

Jack, who works in property, admits he knew who he was meeting for a first date in a Hackney pub last August, but wasn’t familiar with all of her TV work, and went into their date completely open-minded. “Luckily he hadn’t watched any of my previous shows or he might not have turned up to meet me,” Georgia jokes.

Georgia’s first inkling that she might be pregnant, she says, was when her breasts became sore, and on one occasion spent almost an entire day at their flat, “cleaning and crying”.

She confesses, “I was just feeling very, very emotional, that way you do before your period,
but I knew it wasn’t rational. I started to wonder if I was pregnant, but I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it in case I wasn’t.

“I got some tests while Jack was at work and when I saw it said ‘Pregnant’ I felt excited straightaway – shocked, but so excited!”

Georgia smiles when she recalls wanting to tell Jack the news in person – but having to then wait for seven hours (while going understandably “stir crazy”) for him to return from work. “His first question when I broke the news was, ‘Where did you get the tests from?’ I think he was so shocked he wasn’t sure whether to trust them or not!”

Despite his reservations about the accuracy of the tests, however, Jack admits he couldn’t have been happier. “It was overwhelming, instant tears of happiness,” he beams. “I felt overwhelmingly proud of Georgia, and proud of us.”

Georgia’s younger siblings and her mum Nicola were next to find out, along with Jack’s parents Joanne and Jon. Jack’s best friend Reece who became a dad himself to baby Cole just a few weeks ago, was also high on the list.

Understandably, having witnessed Georgia go through so much both publicly and privately in recent years, Nicola’s reaction to her daughter’s big news was highly emotional. “My mum has watched me go through everything,”

Georgia says, looking emotional. “She’s always reassured me that everything would be OK, that I’d meet someone and get my happy ending. So, seeing me at this stage is such a relief for her. She’s always said that when you’re a parent, you’re only as happy as your unhappiest child, so this is an amazing, positive stage in her life, too.”

Understandably, the couple wanted to keep their news under wraps at the beginning – but when you have best friends like eagle-eyed around, that’s easier said than done, Georgia tells us.

“Olivia was sure I’d had my boobs done. I just had to say that, ‘No, I’ve just put on weight recently’. When we did tell her and our two best friends, she squealed, ‘I knew it, I knew those t**s weren’t normal!’”

Reactions from their inner circle have all been very positive, but the couple are aware that the speed of their relationship might raise a few eyebrows from those who don’t know them. “But when you know, you know,” Georgia says, grinning at Jack. “I know it’s cringey but that’s definitely how we feel. Anyone who knows us knows how strong we are, and how happy we make each other.”

With the baby due early November, on Georgia’s mum Nicola’s birthday, in fact, the couple know they’re about to be thrown in at the deep end – but insist that they’re not scared of a few sleepless nights and nappy changes.

Jack, whose parents live on the Isle of Wight, left school after sixth form to go travelling, returning to education in his mid-twenties, studying in the evenings for a degree while holding down a full-time apprenticeship job.

“Going back into education later on isn’t easy, it’s amazing that he did it,” Georgia says, proudly. “I was probably passed out in a bush in Ibiza somewhere, at that point in my life!”

And the star doesn’t want to “jinx herself”, she says, but she’s had a fairly easy first trimester aside from the odd bout of sickness – and is especially grateful that she can power ahead with her ambitions of becoming the next TOWIE star-turned-multimillionaire business owner, à la , especially after Georgia has recently launched her own beauty empire starting with her lash serum called Twenty One Beauty.

“She’s such a female boss, smashing it – I’d love to go down that trajectory,” says Georgia. “There’s still a lot I want to do, and I don’t think having children has to stop you. Look at Sam, Stacey Dooley with her documentaries, they’re both mums, doing amazing things.”

When it comes to a big gender reveal, Georgia and Jack are on the same page: spoiler alert, there won’t be one. “Everyone’s second guessing, which is fun, but we just want to experience it as a total surprise,” Jack explains. “We just want a healthy boy or girl – a happy baby and a house that’s loud, fun and full of friends and kids.”

Georgia’s past experiences, while heartbreakingly difficult, were the trigger for a change that will impact future generations for years to come – her own child included. But given everything she’s been through, is there an element of anxiety about the world they’re bringing their baby into?

“I’m really hoping there’ll be more safety measures coming in, especially online,” she says. “Yes, things worry me, like deepfakes used in advertising. But I also know there’ll be some new problem to worry about that we don’t even know about yet, so I’m not going to get swept up in worry.

“All we’re thinking about now is breast pumps, cots and how this baby’s going to enter the world via my vagina! We’ll tackle the rest later.”

For now, the loved-up pair are excitedly planning to become a family of three, with a bucket list of activities and trips to tick off (including Jack’s request for a visit to the Imperial War Museum, which, Georgia jokes, isn’t exactly her ideal date night) and a few yoga classes, too.

“We want to keep enjoying our relationship, and this pregnancy,” she beams. “I might be like when we get further along and I’ve got a big bump, you know. She always wore little outfits with her bump out, I love that. I’m going to be properly proud of mine, posting it on Instagram and really enjoying it. So, good luck with that, Jack!”

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