Director's extra marital affair

[Weldoinever]

One of our Board of Directors is having an affair with a colleague.
It has become known widely as his Executive Assistant has been very vocal about it in the office.
Whilst I don't approve I do find her constant crude discussions of it both uncomfortable and unprofessional.
How do I deal with this properly without upsetting anyone? She is not the sort to take kindly to being asked to shut up about it.
I simply don't want to hear about it as I find it distracting and inappropriate.

Unless someone calls her out on her unprofessional attitude, it’s likely she’ll continue.

Is there someone in HR you can speak to?

Let him know what she's saying. It will soon stop.

I would just say to her that for the sake of his wife’s privacy I would suggest she didn’t mention it again. Be super sweet and make it clear that further discussion is very unkind to his wife and family.

Shrug and say ' meh, nothing to do with me'

What's everyone's general perspectives of it ?

Someone should tell his wife

I would absolutely do this. But I’m a cunt.

Is the Executive Assistant the one having the affair?

In a new job, I told the caller the MD was on the phone to his wife.

"I am the wife" replied the caller..

Everyone else knew about the mistress but no one told me...

I would leave them to it. It will
come out in the wash eventually. Wish my boss with his peachy bum fancied me!

Just leave it. Get on with your work and don't be drawn. This really isn't your problem.

HER unprofessional attitude??? Someone needs to have a word with him to let him know everyone knows…

She'll shut up eventually. In the meantime, no good ever came from trying to sort out this sort of work nonsense, so just ignore it.

It’s certainly NOT the executive assistance who should be reprimanded, she’s most likely having to cover all sorts for the cheating lying duo.
the cheating pair should be asked to step down.

Well I think it's good that people talk about the cheating arseholes. Hopefully someone tells his wife.

However, whenever she brings it up, don't engage and change the conversation.

I think the only thing you can do is take her to one side and say rumours have a habit of spreading and if it got back to him that she had been involved in starting to spread it then it might affect her job, so for her sake she might want to be a bit more discrete

Discreet!

Yep. That would shut her up.
Can't stand cheaters. I'd totally grass up my boss if he was a cheating arsehole.

Good for her. I hope she tells his wife.

When the gossip mill is running, and I'm not a fan of gossip, rumours and the like.

I simply say "I don't want to know sorry, I like a quiet life" and walk away 😂

Ignore her and stay out of it.

Just say "I'm not interested"

She'll soon get bored of talking about it if no one else joins in.