What's some --more-- juicy gossip that you can't share irl but can share with nosy strangers on mumsnet?

He was a nice, ordinary guy.

Had no idea that the two of them were actually having an affair.

They ended up getting divorced, not sure if the wife and mother ended up together!

The multiple wives and lazy man story made me think Utah as soon as I read it, not an unusual set up there apparently.

He’d have to be oozing a serious bank account, never mind the size of his John Thomas!

Name changed.... I just quit my job, noone expect the big bosses know. They are worried other may follow suit. I feel bad but hey.... Also I know an ex colleague who slept with another colleague at 2 x work events !! They don't know I know but I saw him leaving her room first time and after next event they were cosy and am pretty sure it happened again. Cool as cucumbers at work, nothing to arise suspicion!! How do they do it!!!

Oh my friggin word 😱

Many years ago, I was an HR manager. There was a pastoral side to my role as well as all the usual legal/recruitment/ etc stuff.

On one memorable morning a male employee asked to see me, very upset.

He had arrived home earlier than planned the previous evening to find his wife in bed with his mother. 😳

Or be hung like a horse 😂

Because most women in prostitution are. But in any event if the neighbours are “running a racket” then they are pimps. However “willingly” a woman is in prostitution, pimping is always exploitative.

Along similar lines, I went to a wedding last month and one of the other guests was a very unremarkable, particularly unattractive, very rude, man in his 70's (Maybe late 60's), who was there with both his wife and his girlfriend..both younger than him and very beautiful, and the three of them were very open about it like it was completely normal...I couldn't take my eyes off them!

I don’t know whether it was a case of she never twigged her whole life or rather she didn’t want to publicly out her beloved parents. She was born in the late 1940s when sex before marriage was taboo.

Me too! It's such a funny deception. And which of us hasn't bought forbidden food, wolfed it down in secret and hidden the packaging at the bottom of the bin. Or is that just me and pizza guy?

I think he deserves to know the truth. He's giving up his dream for someone who's been dishonest.

About 15 years ago a man I work with asked me straight out if I would have an affair with him. He said it was just sex, he wasn't interested meeting my children (I was recently divorced) and that he would never leave his wife.
I, politely as possible, turned him down, saying that I wasn't interested. I had to be careful in my refusal as it's a small business where I work and he could have made life very awkward for me.
It was very odd at work for several years and I was super careful to make sure I never seemed to 'invite' him in any way. The job suited (and continues to suit me life so I've stayed) so i didn't want to leave.

Three years ago he became my boss and is a very good boss. We work well together and there is zero tension between us. I am still careful though.
I know his wife and have never said anything to her and I have never told my partner about his approach because I didn't want them to worry/stress unnecessarily and it happened several years before I met them.
I've not told this to a single person before....so why not post on a public website viewable by anyone 😂

My dad’s brother is married to Betty and they have 2 kids in their 40s who don’t know that their dad was married before or that he had 2 kids that he has never seen since he left their mum for Betty.

I was only a child when it happened but I remember his first family as the kids were older than me and I idolised one of them. Now I’m an adult it really hits home what he did and actually how all the family treated the first family. Really shocking behaviour. It’s bound to all come out one day.

The pie story reminds me of a very early episode of Come Dine With Me where the hostess had arranged with the local gastro pub to deliver each course to her kitchen window during the evening.

I know for a fact that a recently engaged man is still married to his first wife and is hoping to pull of a sneaky divorce before their wedding in 2027.

My DM is my stepdad’s third wife. He had an affair with his 2nd wife while still married to the 1st wife . The affair produced a baby, and even though it was the 1980s and he went on to marry the mother and have more children together, they adopted the child out. Why? They thought it would look bad for their careers if there was proof they were sleeping together when he was married. None of my step-siblings know. The adopted out child is a full sibling to his 2nd marriage children, and a half sibling to his 1st marriage children. One day someone will do a dna test on Ancestry and it will blow up in his face. Mum got drunk and told me.

Graham Norton "the difference between a straight man and a gay man...5 pints" I've known a couple of very retro guys try it. A bloke I work with is very openly gay and has a couple of married male visitors.

I had a restaurant customer that loved our lasagna and also our chicken pie. She used to drop off her own lasagna dish and pie plate, get us to make them but not bake them, then she took them home and popped them in oven so they were cooking in her dishes when her guests would be there. When I sold the restaurant, found out she came in and expected the same thing done, and they refused.

I know right - there is yuck but that is extra yuck when it’s literally a setting where your child is placed.

How awkward.

I am always amazed by men’s decision trees - they seem to be always dick-led.

I saw a school mums husband hugging another mum a few streets away from school after the morning drop off. It was a proper embrace. They don’t know I saw them. I feel awful.