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

732 replies

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 19:39

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To improve an otherwise boring friday night in front of the TV, with my slightly poorly DD x

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Toooldforlonghair · 16/08/2025 16:24

My friend's (let's call her Ann) perfect marriage is not all she makes out and that the misgivings that I have regarding her husband, Fred (again not his real name) are right.
Yesterday I had my suspicions confirmed by another friend who, by chance,had recently met someone who knew Ann and had actually introduced her to Fred, something this person now regrets. My friend knows only Ann so was asking me about my thoughts on Fred, to which was non committal. As the drink flowed, and my friend told me more of what they'd been told I realised that there is financial and emotional abuse within Ann and Fred's marriage.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 16/08/2025 16:26

LearnSomeSocialSkills · 16/08/2025 15:38

@ConnieHeart as would I but, as the wife was driving when the car was hit and the phone number left, but it was the husband that phoned, it’s the only obvious explanation.

The obvious explanation is surely that it was his car so he was the one dealing with the insurance and so on? "Turns out his wife had taken his car to go to work at the golf club."

Beaniebeemer · 16/08/2025 16:34

SeasalterSadie · 16/08/2025 08:59

MK of SB?

That was my first thought too!

Verydemure · 16/08/2025 16:36

CelineDijon · 16/08/2025 11:16

Definitely not. I've met him and his wife a few times and honestly I've more chance of winning Euromillions than either of them straying, they are absolutely devoted.

That is very reassuring! He seems like a good egg

TheGreatWesternShrew · 16/08/2025 16:46

@Phoebesparrowhow is it ‘not fair’ to tell a bloke his wife is going to screw him as soon as the kids are 18? You’re just scared.

Deelitefull · 16/08/2025 16:52

My ex-husband, my older child’s father had an affair behind his long term partners back. Eventually he chucked her and shacked up with affair partner who turned out to be our child’s best friends mother. He gave up his tenancy and sold off or got rid of most of his stuff as she has a much smaller house, even all of our kids stuff was tossed and his closest friendship of 12 years utterly trashed😡

Recently, after just 3 months she dumped him and he’s got nowhere to go. He tried crawling back to his partner who has now moved to another city with her job and she’s told him to get fucked. I always did like her :)

TheGreatWesternShrew · 16/08/2025 16:53

@MyDeftDuckmy mum has blue eyes and blonde hair, my dad black hair and eyes. My sister has green eyes and auburn hair and I have grey eyes and brown hair.

Genetics can be funny.

Redshoeblueshoe · 16/08/2025 16:55

My £ is on Bono from U2

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 16/08/2025 16:57

He cock blocked me from a wonderful man that someone else is married to now @PulchritudinousLycanthrope

I know it must feel like this but he wasn't a wonderful man if he couldn't see past your 'past'. Even if it had of been true a good man wouldn't be upset with who you had been with before you met.

NNforthispost · 16/08/2025 16:58

Klp122 · 16/08/2025 14:12

If it's a law firm then they are notorious for this sort of thing. Sounds like a Partner I once worked for.

Exactly that - North West by any chance?

usedtobeaylis · 16/08/2025 17:09

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 08:44

👀👀 whats the woman like? Can you act on it? Life is for living 🥰

No definitely not. There are some relationships going on in there that a lot of people don't really know about, although maybe not so much since COVID. It was a hotbed at one point 😆

Ihateboris · 16/08/2025 17:27

I've just discovered that Lily Philips (the Only Fans woman), has moved into a village a few miles away from where I live.

LazyLions · 16/08/2025 17:37

Not gossip as such, but I slept with a famous musician a couple of years ago.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 17:44

Ihateboris · 16/08/2025 17:27

I've just discovered that Lily Philips (the Only Fans woman), has moved into a village a few miles away from where I live.

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Hide your husbands!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 17:44

LazyLions · 16/08/2025 17:37

Not gossip as such, but I slept with a famous musician a couple of years ago.

Omggg 👀👀

Now this is worth trying to figure out what the initials stand for

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lostfather666 · 16/08/2025 17:45

One my support workers has no sex life

CatCaretaker · 16/08/2025 17:49

lifeonmars100 · 15/08/2025 21:18

I was watching one of the series of the Traitors and got a mild shock when I realised I knew one of the contestants, I know some stuff about his wife that does not fit the public image he was keen to promote, she was seeing someone behind his back and taking money and gifts from him (think sugar daddy style arrangement) for significant number of years, I fell out with her over it and she then blocked and ghosted me. They are married now, don't know how much he found out and how much he forgave

I don't expect you to say, but I'd love to know who this was. Had a mild Traitors obsession for a while.

ThisOldThang · 16/08/2025 17:50

Horsie · 16/08/2025 13:53

Oooh, is it Simon LeBon?

Sting?

Blades2 · 16/08/2025 17:50

After my ex and I split up our shared teenage daughters were staying over at his, and were awoken at 1am by their dad, who was being very loud, on FaceTime, with someone, having phone sex. My eldest walked in to his room,,because she genuinely thought the noises he was making were from his dog, and got the shock of her life and an eye full of a strange woman bollock naked because for some mad reason he had positioned his laptop to point at the bedroom door 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

WishICouldBeLikeDavidWatts · 16/08/2025 17:52

When my DM found out about DF's second affair, she decided enough was enough and divorced him. He and the OW were planning to marry as soon as the divorce came through, but as she was a catholic (we're not), they had to know if my DM, DSis and I had been baptized, as it affected whether OW would get full absolution or not.

Apparently if weren't, we would not exist in the eyes of her church and my father would be seen as a single man, allowing her absolution. Because DF didn't know if we were or not, her church sent a priest across the country to visit my DM to ask. He told her why he wanted to know and she told him it was none of his business, and that anyway absolution should be spiritual and not based on technicalities. Priest became insistent and aggressive so she showed him the door.

Then my DF gave the priest my maternal grandparents' address and he turned up on their doorstep to ask about our baptisms. My DGM knew the story and didn't want to let him in, but DGF didn't know, invited him in and answered his questions before DGM could stop him. We hadn't been baptized.

As soon as DM heard this, she booked a baptism for all three of us on the next possible Sunday, and asked my older DSis to let DF know. His face was a picture, knowing he'd have to go back and tell OW that she couldn't get her absolution after all! Apparently they had to cancel the church wedding they had planned and ended up with a registry office wedding.

I was only 10 at the time and had no idea why it was happening, and only found out from DGM many years later. It's the only time in my life I every heard of my DM being vindictive, but at least she got a tiny bit if revenge on the OW.

ThreeLocusts · 16/08/2025 17:52

My stories I can't tell are quite galling....

years ago, in Bavaria, I had a friend who was quite fragile and seeking solace in Christianity. She wrote a book that reimagined Jesus in the present time as a gay hippie and a small church-adjacent publishing house published it.

She was then interviewed by one of the editors of the regional church newspaper about the book and her struggles. They discussed her suicidal tendencies and then the editor started an affair with her. He was married and his wife was pregnant with their third kid at the time.

The affair ended badly, but the friend is now, decades later, in a somewhat better place. The dirtbag editor, for whom this kind of stunt was probably a habit, never saw consequences afaik.

Where I live now (small European country), there's a well-known politician who identifies as a trans woman. I once, by complete coincidence, met his ex-wife.

According to her, she moved from her home country to where he lived to marry him, after meeting him on a student exchange. He left her suddenly when their baby was six months old, declaring she had 'become boring'. She struggled ever after to maintain her career as the main caregiver, lacking a family network in a country where family support is taken for granted in bringing up children.

He spent several more years as a man, working abroad, establishing his career. Then he 'came out' as a 'woman' and reinvented himself as a 'progressive female politician'. He is still in public life and still considered a cuddly progressive.

This one I'd love to shout from the rooftops but I can't without the ex-wife's permission (which I haven't even asked, given that she was so exhausted and seemed scared of her ex). Some fucking woman, leaving the caregiving to his discarded wife while cosplaying as a trailblazer for women ('first transwoman minister' etc).

SaratogaFilly · 16/08/2025 18:02

Simonjt · 15/08/2025 19:41

Not gossip, but it’s my husbands birthday this month, he’s desperate for my chemical romance tickets but he didn’t manage to get any. He thought I was at work this morning, I wasn’t, I was securing two hospitality tickets for him :)

I love this! Hope you both have an amazing time!

MustWeDoThis · 16/08/2025 18:05

ARichtGoodDram · 15/08/2025 20:25

My ex, who I told the best story ever of him getting his comeuppance before, met someone new. Fed them his usual pack of lies going by their "kids need Dads too" and "dads matter" posts on SM. Going by his social media he's going to an event with her tonight. He has no idea that our two adult children are also going. Kids haven't seen him for a few years, know of the new GF, and are looking forward to saying hello 😂

He got the best comeuppance a while back that I posted on here about and it was just absolutely hilarious

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I need more tea on this! As an only child who never knew her scummy dad.

What happened!? Did they approach them!? Were there fireworks!?

SaratogaFilly · 16/08/2025 18:06

curiositydidnotkillthecatisaid · 15/08/2025 20:03

My DH ex girlfriend (who he has children with) moved some cocklodger in and my stepchildren kept on saying how horrible he was. I brushed it off as the kids just having loyalty to their dad as they are very close to my DH and myself UNTIL one day I popped by to drop a surprise off for the kids and while I knocked on the front door I could hear him screaming calling the kids ungrateful cunts and then opened the door all smiles to me. I was so damn angry but kept my cool.

I made a plan with one of my friends to take her car down to his car garage and flirt with him and try and get him to go on a date with her. She did. The dirty abusive “man” was happy to cheat on the woman who was letting him live in her house for free and treating my step children like crap. My friend took video recordings and pictures of their date and sent them to my DH Ex. Needless to say she was heartbroken but she did kick his butt to the curb and the kids are so much happier that he has gone

edit for spelling and to add the ex has no idea it was a set up

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I fucking love this - super stepmum! (& thankfully your friend was ok too!)

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 18:07

lostfather666 · 16/08/2025 17:45

One my support workers has no sex life

😄😄 it sounds like they've pissed you off!

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