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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

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Christmasbear1 · 23/08/2025 00:42

He also was adamant he couldn't be the father which I don't understand. How did he even know throughout the whole pregnancy that it wasn't his before they even did a paternity test? They slept together so there's always a chance.

Christmasbear1 · 23/08/2025 00:39

The baby looks so like Conor I almost don't believe the results. Apparently for the first test he changed the test centres last minute...

PinkFrogss · 23/08/2025 00:36

Jigglypuff33 · 23/08/2025 00:06

I don't think she owes him any apology at all.

why not, out of interest?

Ratafia · 23/08/2025 00:28

She swore blind only he could be the father, and accused him of trying to cheat the tests. She certainly does owe him an apology.

Jigglypuff33 · 23/08/2025 00:06

I don't think she owes him any apology at all.

bluecrochetedplane · 22/08/2025 23:59

She definitely needs to apologise although it will never be enough. The poor child too having to find out this and how public it was when she's older.

I found it funny when he announced the first paternity test result, how she was upset that he had told the world but yet she found no issues with telling the world he was the dad and blasting him for not stepping up.
Shes unhinged.

Ratafia · 22/08/2025 23:34

People who claim that baby looks the "double" of Maynard must be looking through beer goggles or something. She looks nothing like him.

CircusofPuffins · 22/08/2025 23:30

MounjaroMounjaro · 22/08/2025 22:52

Same here! I have no memory of her at all! Did she get kicked out early on?

And who's he, while we're at it?

Yes, I do think a public apology is needed when you drag someone's name through the mud and you're completely in the wrong.

If memory serves me, she got a reasonable way towards the end, but was consistently wrong in who she thought were traitors. She also had quite an obsession with Paul so...draw your own conclusions.

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MolkosTeenageAngst · 22/08/2025 23:30

I love the traitors but don’t remember her (or almost anyone else from Season 2). Seems like she wanted to be in the limelight/ become a celebrity and thought having another celebrity as her baby’s dad might be the way to get there. I guess even if he’s not the father it’s partly worked because her name is still getting airtime,

CircusofPuffins · 22/08/2025 23:27

FuzzyWolf · 22/08/2025 21:58

Charlotte was married at the time, to another woman who has since separated from her, and they spent years going through IVF. Her ex-wife now knows, in the most public way, that she was (at least) doubly cheated on after Charlotte claimed separated before it happened (although she was pictured wearing her wedding ring at the wrap party where she says she had sex with Conor).

Very good point, I'd forgotten she was married to another woman while she was clearly at it with multiple men. And now to have this so open in the public...I guess it shows she failed at being a faithful on multiple occasions! 😆

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Itstheshowgirl · 22/08/2025 23:18

This whole story is just mental, why go to all that hassle when there is even the tiniest possibility that it is going to show he isn’t the father and thereby make you look like a complete idiot. She says she is considering next steps or something similar on her statement, surely she can’t still be considering pursuing this further, she needs someone to give her a reality check.

ImGoingUpstairsToTakeOffMyHat · 22/08/2025 23:16

Aaaaah I thought you meant not-Welsh Charlotte at first. The only thing that would make it weirder!

But still more obscure season 2 Charlotte is still a weird story

ImGoingUpstairsToTakeOffMyHat · 22/08/2025 23:15

I’m sorry but Charlotte season 2 Traitors and Connor Maynard on a paternity battle…what?!

This is like a fever dream. How had this passed me by?!

Anyways. I think if I were a man going out having irresponsible ONS I would also want paternity tests. It’s just wise innit

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 22/08/2025 23:13

When I saw the title I knew what this was going to be about!

She absolutely does but as she said in her statement she'll be telling her story in the next few weeks to the highest bidder no doubt so maybe she'll apologise then 🤔.

There is no way he chested the system. The reason he did a second test at all was because Charlotte accused him of doing that with the first one. It sounds like the second one was conducted under Big Brother style conditions 👀. And for Charlotte to have accepted the result speaks volumes.

Wonder who she'll go after next. And if any of the make cast of Traitors 24 are feeling a bit nervous now!

MounjaroMounjaro · 22/08/2025 22:52

ninjahamster · 22/08/2025 22:17

Poor guy.

Not sure what other posters are seeing but the baby looks nothing like him!

Same here! I have no memory of her at all! Did she get kicked out early on?

And who's he, while we're at it?

Yes, I do think a public apology is needed when you drag someone's name through the mud and you're completely in the wrong.

PinkFrogss · 22/08/2025 22:30

Very embarrassing for her, why would you want it public that you cheated on your wife at least twice in a short time period?

And she must have known there was more than one potential father, presumably the other one doesn’t have as much money as Conor.

404PageNotFound · 22/08/2025 22:28

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

xanthic · 22/08/2025 22:20

ninjahamster · 22/08/2025 22:17

Poor guy.

Not sure what other posters are seeing but the baby looks nothing like him!

I don't think babies usually look like anyone at that age!

ninjahamster · 22/08/2025 22:17

Poor guy.

Not sure what other posters are seeing but the baby looks nothing like him!

xanthic · 22/08/2025 22:17

I think for her to request the test be repeated, she must have genuinely thought - or been so desperate for it to be true that she made herself think - that he was the father.

So, I do some sympathy for her. It's possible she doesn't know who the actual father is, and as she didn't have another person to get tested, that's why she was so hellbent on proving it was this guy.

This doesn't mean I think she's in the right or that she did the right thing. I just think the whole thing is a mess, and I feel for everyone concerned, including the bloke who was labelled a deadbeat when he wasn't actually the father.

There are no winners here, least of all, the child.

MoFadaCromulent · 22/08/2025 22:15

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.

Science probably knows tbf

BatchCookBabe · 22/08/2025 22:13

Silverbirchleaf · 22/08/2025 22:09

I don’t think the baby looks like him at all.

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I don't think so either. (As I said earlier.) Some posters are seeing something that isn't there. Especially given the fact that the baby isn't his! There's been 2 paternity tests, he's not the father!

DemonsRocks · 22/08/2025 22:13

I think I read he has had 3 paternity tests in total because she wasn't happy about the first 2. How many witnessed foolproof negative tests are enough?
The poor man has been through the mud.

Silverbirchleaf · 22/08/2025 22:09

Bobnobob · 22/08/2025 21:56

But the baby is the absolute spitting image of him… why double order a paternity test if you know he’s probably not the father? I think he’s cheating the system here.

I don’t think the baby looks like him at all.

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FuzzyWolf · 22/08/2025 21:59

Bobnobob · 22/08/2025 21:56

But the baby is the absolute spitting image of him… why double order a paternity test if you know he’s probably not the father? I think he’s cheating the system here.

Perhaps she thought the publicity would shame him into accepting the baby as his without doing the test and that he had more money than whoever is the father, so she would be financially better off.