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To think she owes him a public apology?

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CircusofPuffins · 22/08/2025 21:05

Has anyone else been following this story?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15024445/Conor-Maynard-paternity-test-results-revealed-Charlotte-Chilton-demanded-second-test-ongoing-row-daughter-Penelope.html

Brief summary: Charlotte, from S2 of The Traitors UK, claimed she had a ONS with Conor Maynard, resulting in the birth of her daughter. She was quick to drag his name through the mud as being a deadbeat dad for not providing her with support, but two paternity tests later, it has been conclusively revealed that he isn't the father.

What an embarrassing situation for her. Surely as a woman if you're shagging multiple men at a similar time, it's basic sense to at least be sure of who the father is before publicly naming them and making accusations!

Perhaps she hoped it was Conor because he was single at the time, and the other potential father/s weren't?!

That poor girl. She's going to see all this online when she grows up. And all because of her mother's stupidity.

Surely Charlotte owes Conor a grovelling public apology at the very least?

Charlotte Chilton breaks her silence over second paternity test result

Charlotte, 32, announced in June last year that Conor, also 32, was the father of her unborn 'miracle' baby.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15024445/Conor-Maynard-paternity-test-results-revealed-Charlotte-Chilton-demanded-second-test-ongoing-row-daughter-Penelope.html

OP posts:
SerendipityJane · 23/08/2025 10:50

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 23/08/2025 10:31

On a - very vaguely - related note, I’m always fascinated by people who claim to be the lost love child of a pop star/movie star/royal etc. I can’t remember one that turned out to be true.

And my recollection is that they’re usually women. It’s odd.

It’s all so easy to disprove nowadays that I wonder what drives it. The mentality is intriguing.

Anastasia.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 23/08/2025 10:50

Namechangerage · 23/08/2025 10:40

I find this suspect if you “love Traitors”, she was quite a big character on series 2. The one with Harry, Charlotte was a big fan of that Paul guy and was annoying even then.

The one thing I really remember was when they do the brilliantly camp bits of everyone waiting in their rooms for the Traitors decision doing faux nonchalant activities like reading and working out, Charlotte was almost constantly in the bath.

CallieOMally · 23/08/2025 10:49

SirRaymondClench · 23/08/2025 10:46

I have no idea who these people are but you sound really nasty OP and what a poisonous thread.
If she made him do two paternity tests she clearly believed he was the father.

There is a baby in all of this who will doubtless find this thread online one day.

And while you're throwing rocks at the woman maybe it's time men stopped having sex unprotected indiscriminately.

If you're having unprotected sex with women on a ONS basis then it's hardly beyond expectations that one day you're going to get someone pregnant.

How infantilising of you to assume that women have no agency or responsibility in this.

She has behaved terribly and has made a fool of herself. She did that. Not him.

SaltAirAndTheRust · 23/08/2025 10:48

SirRaymondClench · 23/08/2025 10:46

I have no idea who these people are but you sound really nasty OP and what a poisonous thread.
If she made him do two paternity tests she clearly believed he was the father.

There is a baby in all of this who will doubtless find this thread online one day.

And while you're throwing rocks at the woman maybe it's time men stopped having sex unprotected indiscriminately.

If you're having unprotected sex with women on a ONS basis then it's hardly beyond expectations that one day you're going to get someone pregnant.

But he didn’t get someone pregnant.

She has repeatedly thrown bile at him in the media, said he’s a deadbeat and that he doesn’t pay for his child, made insinuations that there were drugs etc involved and tried to imply that it wasn’t consensual.

All the while he’s conducted himself in an amazing manner, made it clear he centres the child in this despite her not being his, and his family has been put through hell. She continues to make this a media storm in order to make money and keep herself relevant. She’s the one who doesn’t care about the child. Not him.

404PageNotFound · 23/08/2025 10:47

Where’s the selfie in bed with Conor come from? That doesn’t look like a drugged up night, it’s quite sweet.

SirRaymondClench · 23/08/2025 10:46

I have no idea who these people are but you sound really nasty OP and what a poisonous thread.
If she made him do two paternity tests she clearly believed he was the father.

There is a baby in all of this who will doubtless find this thread online one day.

And while you're throwing rocks at the woman maybe it's time men stopped having sex unprotected indiscriminately.

If you're having unprotected sex with women on a ONS basis then it's hardly beyond expectations that one day you're going to get someone pregnant.

Namechangerage · 23/08/2025 10:40

404PageNotFound · 22/08/2025 22:28

Not relevant but I love Traitors and I don't remember her at all!

I find this suspect if you “love Traitors”, she was quite a big character on series 2. The one with Harry, Charlotte was a big fan of that Paul guy and was annoying even then.

JudgeJ · 23/08/2025 10:37

ClearFoundation · 23/08/2025 10:34

The mentality is often undiagnosed mental illness.

Great, another one to load onto the NHS!

JudgeJ · 23/08/2025 10:36

OwlBeThere · 23/08/2025 02:50

An it’s good to know slut shaming is alive and well in 2025.

Yet male shaming is quite acceptable for many on MN, not for nothing is MN known as the home of hypocrisy.

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 23/08/2025 10:36

ClearFoundation · 23/08/2025 10:34

The mentality is often undiagnosed mental illness.

Oh sure. But the way it expresses is fascinating, to me at least.

ClearFoundation · 23/08/2025 10:34

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 23/08/2025 10:31

On a - very vaguely - related note, I’m always fascinated by people who claim to be the lost love child of a pop star/movie star/royal etc. I can’t remember one that turned out to be true.

And my recollection is that they’re usually women. It’s odd.

It’s all so easy to disprove nowadays that I wonder what drives it. The mentality is intriguing.

The mentality is often undiagnosed mental illness.

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 23/08/2025 10:31

On a - very vaguely - related note, I’m always fascinated by people who claim to be the lost love child of a pop star/movie star/royal etc. I can’t remember one that turned out to be true.

And my recollection is that they’re usually women. It’s odd.

It’s all so easy to disprove nowadays that I wonder what drives it. The mentality is intriguing.

JudgeJ · 23/08/2025 10:31

SpinandSing · 22/08/2025 21:36

Agree with Hellohellooo...the baby is the absolute double of him so who knows what's going on here.

Years ago we knew a couple with a toddler daughter who was the image of the mother and a son, about 8, who was the image of the father so we were astonished to learn that she had been widowed around the time her son was born, she had remarried 5 or 6 years later and had the daughter who was their child.
I'd believe 2 DNA tests rather than the conspiracy theorists. Can women ever do anything wrong in MN eyes?

handsdownthebest · 23/08/2025 10:30

404PageNotFound · 22/08/2025 22:28

Not relevant but I love Traitors and I don't remember her at all!

Me neither...even looking at photos. Obviously made no impression on me at all 😁

SerendipityJane · 23/08/2025 10:23

PudgeJudy · 23/08/2025 07:41

It’s incredibly rare, but there have been cases of chimerism causing babies to not match parental DNA (including mothers not matching their children’s DNA). I believe that different types of samples can reveal different DNA in the same person, so multiple samples should be tested (saliva, blood, thyroid). It happens when one embryo “absorbs” a second embryo (its twin) in the womb. The fact she is so positive he’s the father does make me wonder if this is one of those cases.

Hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.

PerkingFaintly · 23/08/2025 10:22

blueclip · 23/08/2025 08:30

I’ve never heard of either of these people, however…this does sound strange. If she’s been public/adamant/requested a 2nd test etc, it indicates that she was absolutely certain that he’s the father. Very strange indeed. This child has got a father so if it isn’t this man, who is it? As no other man seems to have materialised during this saga.

It really doesn't.

It can indicate she thinks that if she tells a lie often enough, she'll find people who'll believe her on the grounds that "surely no one would be that dishonest".

Because they themselves are decent people who would never be that dishonest.

It's cold-bloodedly exploiting other people's honesty.

tommyhoundmum · 23/08/2025 10:21

It is disgusting that this sensitive, private matter is being conducted in public. She is completely shameless.

CagneyNYPD1 · 23/08/2025 10:21

Over the years, many women have posted on here asking for advice on possible paternity. Women tying themselves up in knots trying to work out who is the most likely father to their child between 2 men. Women hoping and praying that the guy who is the better choice (her partner, the nice guy, the lovely ex etc etc) will be the one. Women doing mental gymnastics to convince themselves that want they want for their child is true.

I suspect that Charlotte is just like those countless other women. Caught up in a mess and desperately looking for a way out that will be the best one for their baby.

It could well be that the dates involving sex with CM are a better fit for the conception. It may be that she had sex with CM but only sexual contact with someone else. So she’s convinced herself that what she thinks is true really is the truth.

Charlotte should never have aired all of this so publicly. There are no winners in this but I suspect the story will rumble on because of the hints towards drugs and another man being involved.

JHound · 23/08/2025 10:08

“A source told The Sun: 'Charlotte is shell-shocked by the news. She has been fighting for the truth to come out for the past 18 months during an already difficult time as a first-time single mum.
'It's never been about the fact Conor is in the public eye or has money behind him. Charlotte had no intention of 'trapping' him. It's always been about having Penny's father's name on the birth certificate. Her little girl deserves that.
'She's reeling from the result and is now considering where she goes from here.'”

LOL!

Does this woman not have friends? Family? Anybody to stop her making a fool of herself?

Conor Maynard's statement on the results of a second paternity test.

The Traitors star Charlotte Chilton second paternity test results REVEALED

WHEN The Traitors star Charlotte Chilton and Conor Maynard first locked eyes in January 2024, they could never have imagined the sensational fallout that would follow. The warring pair have been at…

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/36395247/traitors-charlotte-chilton-conor-maynard-paternity-revealed/

rwalker · 23/08/2025 10:08

Theunamedcat · 22/08/2025 21:21

Grovelling apology? If he hadn't been there unwrapped he wouldn't have even been a contender surely?

I'm sorry is sufficient

Also STI tests for all because yuk

Yes grovelling apology she called him a dead beat dad
publicly tried to shame him then accused him of of tampering with with a DNA

she’d obviously been shagging other people at the same time so must of known there was other contenders in the race

they way he was so adamant doesn’t give the impression they had unprotected sex

the woman a disgrace

Zempy · 23/08/2025 10:05

Spies · 23/08/2025 09:52

What's really weird is people continuing to post stuff like this despite two DNA tests proving he's not the father.

Of course she owes him a public apology but as others have said her statement just shows she's in it for the money and five minutes of fame from selling her made up story. I doubt he will get an actual apology any time soon, maybe in a years time when she wants some more publicity...

It's a bloody good job for her that he seems like a genuinely nice bloke.

Edited

I think you misunderstood 😀

It is weird how much the baby looks like him, considering he isn’t the father.

JHound · 23/08/2025 10:04

It’s taking me back to my days watching “Maury!”

Women like this have no shame. Embarrassing.

KnackeredCatsleepytime · 23/08/2025 10:03

heroinechic · 23/08/2025 09:53

I am genuinely interested in this! When Connor M released his statement with the first DNA test I thought he must have paid someone off or fixed it somehow, as why on EARTH would a woman be so sure that it’s his if there were other potential fathers? But the second one seems to make it conclusive.

The other odd thing is that it doesn’t seem that he believed it could be his child at any time. Even if he wore a condom, if he had sex with her around the time of conception then there’s always a chance, right? Perhaps he has a condition, or had a vasectomy, or had reason to believe that she was having sex with others.

Yes I wondered if he’s perhaps had the snip

SaltAirAndTheRust · 23/08/2025 10:03

heroinechic · 23/08/2025 09:53

I am genuinely interested in this! When Connor M released his statement with the first DNA test I thought he must have paid someone off or fixed it somehow, as why on EARTH would a woman be so sure that it’s his if there were other potential fathers? But the second one seems to make it conclusive.

The other odd thing is that it doesn’t seem that he believed it could be his child at any time. Even if he wore a condom, if he had sex with her around the time of conception then there’s always a chance, right? Perhaps he has a condition, or had a vasectomy, or had reason to believe that she was having sex with others.

I’m wondering if they even had sex at all at this stage, or if they did, they had sex way before or after the supposed conception window.

KnackeredCatsleepytime · 23/08/2025 10:02

Surely he knows the risks involved in casual sex with people he doesn’t know

go round having one night stands
this type thing can happen