To think shes going to have to continue the lie her entire life now?

[LustfulInMiltonKeynes]

So a friend of mine pretended to be a french on a night out for laughs (i wasnt there), shes actually fluent in french because she spent a few years there as a kid, but shes not french at all.

So she actually ended up getting into this guy and them swapping numbers. She really likes him but apparently there was never really a right time to stop it and be like "ok look, heres my normal voice, and im from croydon and my name isnt celine". So she ends up on a second date, still doing to accent!

Obviously now its ridiculous and the worst part is she genuinely really likes the guy - he seems to really likr her too HOWEVER he also seems to really like the french aspect so...
Aibu
To think shes going to have to continue the french lie her entire life now?

If she's really into him and ready to get physical, here's a high-risk idea that could be fun, if she does not mind putting on the accent from time to time:

She could "confess" to him early that she called herself "Céline" and put on a French accent because it makes her feel very sexy. Then, she switches to her normal accent for a time, reveals her real name, starts speaking in her normal voice. Then, if she still feels into him after a little while, she challenges him to make her switch back to the French accent.

If he's going to dump her over something like this, best to get it over with ASAP ... but if he's a normal guy and still into her, maybe he'll hear the part about her having wanted to feel sexy, and maybe he'll enjoy rising to the challenge. He could then spend the rest of the evening trying to get into her pants her to switch back to "Céline" ... and if it works out between them for a longer while, they end up with a fun sort of "trigger" to recall the early days: when feeling amorous, he calls her Céline, or she puts on a French accent...

For full disclosure: my wife is French. I like her accent .

Arf, she will have to come clean. I think it is easily done, they are only just dating.

Btw, a guy pulled that one on me once, doing accent of country X. Only I am from country X but I don't have an accent. It was quite funny to see him squirm when he realised.

"pretended to be apprentice mechanics........and had to buy a pair of overalls"

LOVE THIS!

Oh dear. I just wouldn't contact him again, block him on everything

Is this a serious question?
Well if the guy really likes her, I'm pretty sure that if she tells him that she is not French and explain what happened, is not really going to be an issue!
What a strange post!

I once, unintentionally, gave someone on a forum the impression I was Australian. I was too embarrassed to set the record straight so had to keep it going. I rarely post there now, thankfully.

Years ago I had a date. I am normally a bit careful about telling people my job straight away (I'm a judge). I just told him I was a civil servant (true) and left it at that. On Date 2 he told me he had a criminal record, but I still didn't mention the exact nature of my job. Date 3 didn't happen, he sent a series of offensive and obscene texts saying he'd found out "my secret" and "knew people" who would "sort me out". Seemed like such a nice calm man as well.

She needs to listen to Act Two of this episode of This American Life: www.thisamericanlife.org/598/my-undesirable-talent
It's the story of an African-American college student who pretended to be from Uganda. A really thought provoking listen.

Maybe he’s French and pretending to be English?

She needs to gradually water the accent down over a few dates till it’s barely French anymore and say she stayed in France a while but never claimed to be French

This sounds like a film 😂

Two dates in, still salvageable. She needs to tell him by text, and invite him to ring her if he wants to hear her real voice. If he’s keen he’ll ring.

from me..... namaste? Are you even British?

I met a boyfriend on first night of uni, we looked so alike we pretended to be twins for a week, just to freak people out. Of course we had to come clean! Hopefully the guy will have a sense of humour.

This made me laugh. I would send him an email and come clean, I don’t think I could confess to his face, it would just be too embarrassing, especially having to change accents in front of him. Really funny story though. For what it’s worth, I would see the funny side if I were him.

AIBU to be annoyed at my friend for sweeping her husband’s affair under the rug and pretending everything is perfect?

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Ha ! This made me laugh!

I did this with friends on a night out of underage drinking when we were 17! But didn't meet anyone and have to keep it up forever!

That's hilarious.

My mum actually did the same, except she was Swedish apparently She also had her hair pinned up, but told the guy she had waist length (blonde) hair when it was actually only shoulder length.

She bumped into him a week later talking broad Lancashire and wearing her hair down. Gazumped.

Oh what a web we weave when we try to deceive

Aww it made me laugh I guess she should just send a text and hope he finds it funny if he feels the same he will do

We used to do this when we were 15 to get rid of guys. Not as a grownup though.

I'm sure this is from an episode of a cartoon DS watches, right down to the name Celine

I believe this is the plot of an 80s film co-starring, unless I’m going mad, OJ Simpson. And look how that turned out.