Stephen Bear is seen holding hands and kissing model Ellie O'Donnell (2024)

Stephen Bear has been pictured kissing model EllieO'Donnell after he confessed back in January that his cheating led to their break-up, but vowing to win her back.

The 28-year-old Celebrity Big Brotherwinner stepped out with model Ellie in Manchester on Sunday before heading back to their hotel together.

Bear revealed how he needed to 'prove' himself and was ‘in floods of tears’ over the split last year after Ellie, 23, discovered his infidelity with an unnamed woman.

TheEx On The Beachpersonality stepped out of a taxi in the city before embracing model Ellie before planting a sweet kiss on her cheek as they walked hand-in-hand.

Ellie wore a halterneck orange mini dress with a plunging neckline to showcase her ample assets as the pair enjoyed co*cktails at the Menagerie Restaurant & Bar.

She wore her long blonde tresses loose over her shoulders and accessorised with a miniature black leather handbagwhich she paired with towering black YSL heels.

Bear opted for a laid-back look with ripped faded jeans and a tight-fitting black T-shirt to reveal his numerous arm tattoos with his hair slicked back.

The reality star kept his 'date night' under wraps on his Instagram story and didn't reveal who his mystery guest was.

Speaking on his Instagram story, he said: 'So its date night tonight, I am over in, I can't tell you I am in a secret location.

'I have gone for the strawberry daiquiri and this one, "what's this one called?". This one is called a French kiss.

'What one would you get if you were at a restaurant? Would you get the French kiss or would you get the strawberry daiquiri? Let me know.'

Bear later added a boomerang of the pair's meals and flashed a glimpse of toned pins underneath the table.

And in another snap, Bear posed while his date smushed his face and said: 'Oh darling, oh baby'.

During the taxi ride, Bear quizzed the taxi driver about their relationship: 'Be honest, yeah, what do you think about us as a couple?'

The taxi driver replied: 'I think you are a really good looking couple and you just know when two people are made for each other.'

Bear added: 'Thank you so much, that is all I wanted to hear tonight, a bit of positivity - you are the main man I do love you so much.'

Ellie also posted a picture of the couple clinking their co*cktails at the Manchester bar and tagged the location before showing off her orange ensemble in a taxi.

Speaking to MailOnline last year, the reality TV star said he was struggling to get over the split.

He revealed: ‘I cheated on Ellie with somebody else and she found out about it. We were going through a hard time, always arguing. It wasn’t nice at the end.

‘We needed to break away and then we had broken up and got back together.

‘Then I went away filming and it looked like I got together with someone in LA, but I didn’t.’

He added: ‘Ellie said that if I hadn’t done what I was supposed to have in LA then maybe we could have sorted it.’

Stephen said he was preparing to try and win Ellie back and knew he had to avoid being photographed with other women while she embarked on a new TV series.

He said: ‘I’m in a better frame of mind now and I need to work on myself a little bit and hopefully I can prove myself to her.

‘I don’t want no one else. I want to have kids with her and no one else. I just need to prove myself.

‘When I did it (cheated) I wasn’t thinking right. I moved out into my new house, I was going out, seeing my mum, going to the gym and being selfish.

‘Its only when you miss some one that you think a lot about things. I sent her mum a nice message at Christmas and I’ve been feeling really really sad.

He continued: ‘Its only now that I feel alright again and seeing her for the first time a few days ago brought back everything towards her.

‘I cried. I cried like a baby man. I saw her this morning and I cried again. But she said she has some TV shows to work on and I have to prove to her that I am the one.

‘I just have to work on myself.’

The star, who is from Essex, has appeared in TV shows Shipwrecked, Ex on the Beach, Celebs Go Dating and Just Tattoo of Us.

Ellie, who has 1.1million Instagram followers, revealed that she was seething over her ex-boyfriend’s philandering last year.

She wrote on Twitter: ‘Let’s get this right. I dumped him when he was FaceTiming me saying he missed me because he had cheated on me…

‘He has since told me it was all an act to make good TV & pleading for me back but unfortunately I don’t want him anymore.

‘And before everyone starts saying "he was always gonna do that", "he does that to every girl," I never saw the boy as husband material; let’s face it just a bit of fun whilst it lasted.’