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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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TesChique · 16/08/2025 19:14

MiserableMrsMopp · 15/08/2025 19:47

Twice at work I have weaponised gossip. The first time, it prevented someone who was a shoo-in from getting promoted. The second time, it resulted in someone who had shat on me getting sacked (NOT for what they did to me, but for something else they did).

Never told ANYONE either of those things IRL.

"Weaponised gossip", what a fancy way to say youre a two faced backstabber :)

DeeKitch · 16/08/2025 19:19

RainbowZebraWarrior · 16/08/2025 09:35

This has also just happened to me too. The horrendous thing is though, that my grandfather was in his 40's and the girl who he got pregnant was a 15 year old, who very likely had a learning disability (the child that was born also had a severe learning disability) I actually felt sick finding that out, and stepped back from the family tree investigations afterwards before I could uncover any other disgusting things about my relatives.

My grandfather was born in the 1890s and died in the 1970s just after I was born, but it's still too close for comfort to think about who / what he really was.

Same - all while married and having kids with my granny

DeeKitch · 16/08/2025 19:25

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 12:09

Ooo 👀

Were you tempted? Was he hot?

I'll share this secret - if I recieved such a proposal as a single woman now, I'd go for it 🙈🤭

Same!

Threewordname · 16/08/2025 19:31

PulchritudinousLycanthrope · 15/08/2025 21:27

I kept some of my Dad's ashes back as I knew 'the scattering of the ashes' would turn into an absolute circus with my family and various hangers on.

I want to put them on the exact spot where we used to sit and watch the trains, having a picnic and him telling me stories of when he was a kid.

I have never met a man as good as my Dad and I know I never will.

This has brought tears to my eyes.

whackamole666 · 16/08/2025 19:32

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.

It depends what other lies the ex boss told him.

DressingGemma · 16/08/2025 19:33

One of my clients told me she suspected her husband was having an affair. She didn’t want to upset the family home etc so she’s kept quiet but has recently started seeing someone at work herself behind DH back. He best friend is also my client. She told me it is HER who is having an affair with first clients husband but she doesn’t have a clue. She also doesn’t know about friends secret fella at work. So I have to sit and listen to the stories and try not mix them up just incase I let anything slip. Client one will be like I think he was with her last Thursday afternoon, if I find out who she is. I feel like saying I KNOW he was with her Thursday afternoon noon she told me yesterday! Bloody scumbags.

restingbitchface30 · 16/08/2025 19:35

My sister has been with her partner for 13 years although they’ve never lived together. He’s originally from Pakistan. A year ago he wen back to Pakistan just for a visit, so he told my sister. It came out 6 months ago that he had an arranged marriage and has been living with his wife who now lives here without my sister knowing. Since my sister found out she is still begging to stay with him and get rid of the new wife. I’ve lost all respect for my sister. I’ve endlessly tried to get her to see sense and get away from him but she won’t. Then she decided on my twins bday party 3 weeks ago she wasn’t going to turn up without even letting me know. I found out she spent the day with him instead. I’ve blocked her on everything and told her I don’t want a relationship moving forward.
That felt good to get off my chest! I don’t really talk to people about it!

Phoebesparrow · 16/08/2025 19:36

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.

Sorry I meant MY kids not the baby

It's a long story but I need to protect my kids from the shit show that will be unleashed

And it will be unleashed-they are my priority

YellowZebraStripes · 16/08/2025 19:37

I had an on off thing with the love child of someone with a wellknown family in the public eye.

DeeKitch · 16/08/2025 19:37

LazyLions · 16/08/2025 18:19

First initial is H and that’s all I can say🤣

More info pleeeease?

TheWickerWoman · 16/08/2025 19:38

daddysgirlnot · 15/08/2025 20:46

My daughter and her husband have been selected to participate in a TV show. Filming is happening at the moment, but she’s not allowed to discuss it before the show is broadcast, so sadly I cannot disclose which show it is, or who the presenter is. DD says the presenter is one of the loveliest, kindest people she has ever met, and they’re both loving the experience.

Think I’ve guessed going by the description of the presenter. I’m going to watch closely when it’s on and remember this post.

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 16/08/2025 19:41

coxesorangepippin · 16/08/2025 18:49

Crikey
😂

Just the way that's written really tickled me

Im glad i wasn’t the only one! 😂

OneSunnyGoldDreamer · 16/08/2025 19:41

I used to work for a charity.

I did some digging and found out the CEO and his wife were abusing the system: using hotel points from charity events for their honeymoon instead of charity business travel, taking high value items donated to the charity and giving it to their kids. Etc etc.

when I quit got a meeting with the chair of trustees. He was fired a couple months later

no one knows it was me 🤫

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 19:46

DeeKitch · 16/08/2025 19:37

More info pleeeease?

I got the vibe that he lit up her world like nobody else 🤭

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 19:47

TheWickerWoman · 16/08/2025 19:38

Think I’ve guessed going by the description of the presenter. I’m going to watch closely when it’s on and remember this post.

Omg do share! Initials at least 👀👀

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 19:48

OneSunnyGoldDreamer · 16/08/2025 19:41

I used to work for a charity.

I did some digging and found out the CEO and his wife were abusing the system: using hotel points from charity events for their honeymoon instead of charity business travel, taking high value items donated to the charity and giving it to their kids. Etc etc.

when I quit got a meeting with the chair of trustees. He was fired a couple months later

no one knows it was me 🤫

👀👀

Charities do amazing work but I am always sceptical about donating to them, because of cf like those two!!

Except maybe the family fund, they helped my dd get her text to speech app

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ScottishHaggis85 · 16/08/2025 19:50

Know of a female who’s been caught driving a very big package of illegal contents & will be being banged up 😮

newbaby3 · 16/08/2025 19:54

Big family secret.

My aunt had an affair with her sisters husband and she got pregnant. The sister also get pregnant at the same time. Both babies are now adults and are oblivious but most of the family know and it’s been kept a secret. The ‘affair’ child is the double of her (non-biological) uncle and aunt has done all she can to keep them apart. However, my grandmother knows and I have a feeling will spill all on her deathbed.

GoAwayNaughtyPigeon · 16/08/2025 19:54

It isn't gossip really but if I tell people in real they will probably not care and/or think I've got my head up my arse and I'm bragging, and I don't want to do that as several of my friends have had awful birth experiences and I'm not a bitch, so...

I gave birth to DD2 2 weeks ago and it's been the most amazing experience. DD1 was a cat 1 EMCS at 35 weeks, we spent a week in the NICU. It was an absolute chore to breastfeed her (we did manage, but it was very hard work), she wouldn't latch without nipple shields, had to be tube fed etc. My second pregnancy was relatively somewhat high risk as I had gestational diabetes, group B strep, history of slightly pre term labour, big babies and wanted a VBAC. I managed my diabetes through diet alone the entire pregnancy, chose to go for a VBAC and asked for a waterbirth - I was so anxious about the VBAC as several (well meaning) friends had told me horror stories about theirs, but I was so glad I did it in the end. It was so much easier than DD1s birth - I started contracting early in the morning at 39+4, went into hospital about 9am where I was 3cm dilated (they kept me in because of the strep). DD2 was born less than 2hrs after I got to hospital with just gas and air, she came so quickly they didn't even have time to get me into the birthing pool lol 😂 She's been an absolute dream to breastfeed compared to DD1, I've had literally 0 issues other than some uncomfortable engorgement when my milk came in, and I'm so happy I chose to have a VBAC.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 19:56

newbaby3 · 16/08/2025 19:54

Big family secret.

My aunt had an affair with her sisters husband and she got pregnant. The sister also get pregnant at the same time. Both babies are now adults and are oblivious but most of the family know and it’s been kept a secret. The ‘affair’ child is the double of her (non-biological) uncle and aunt has done all she can to keep them apart. However, my grandmother knows and I have a feeling will spill all on her deathbed.

With sisters like that, who needs enemies 😬😬😬

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JHound · 16/08/2025 19:56

A guy I know, the man he thinks is his father is not his father. Only a handful of people know and I one.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 19:57

GoAwayNaughtyPigeon · 16/08/2025 19:54

It isn't gossip really but if I tell people in real they will probably not care and/or think I've got my head up my arse and I'm bragging, and I don't want to do that as several of my friends have had awful birth experiences and I'm not a bitch, so...

I gave birth to DD2 2 weeks ago and it's been the most amazing experience. DD1 was a cat 1 EMCS at 35 weeks, we spent a week in the NICU. It was an absolute chore to breastfeed her (we did manage, but it was very hard work), she wouldn't latch without nipple shields, had to be tube fed etc. My second pregnancy was relatively somewhat high risk as I had gestational diabetes, group B strep, history of slightly pre term labour, big babies and wanted a VBAC. I managed my diabetes through diet alone the entire pregnancy, chose to go for a VBAC and asked for a waterbirth - I was so anxious about the VBAC as several (well meaning) friends had told me horror stories about theirs, but I was so glad I did it in the end. It was so much easier than DD1s birth - I started contracting early in the morning at 39+4, went into hospital about 9am where I was 3cm dilated (they kept me in because of the strep). DD2 was born less than 2hrs after I got to hospital with just gas and air, she came so quickly they didn't even have time to get me into the birthing pool lol 😂 She's been an absolute dream to breastfeed compared to DD1, I've had literally 0 issues other than some uncomfortable engorgement when my milk came in, and I'm so happy I chose to have a VBAC.

Congratulations to you girl, and here's for a low stress parenting journey moving forwards ! ❤️

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 16/08/2025 19:58

ScottishHaggis85 · 16/08/2025 19:50

Know of a female who’s been caught driving a very big package of illegal contents & will be being banged up 😮

👀👀

I'm sure i once saw a drug deal, this woman was making it so obvious carrying a large package

I knew it happened but was still shocked

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Plumers · 16/08/2025 20:03

I know someone who is secretly dating his brother’s wife’s sister. They got it on at a family wedding. But the woman is going through a messy divorce and she’s worried people will think there was an overlap (there wasn’t - she was separated at the wedding where they first got it on). It started off as just a sex thing but feelings have developed! I may or may not have been let in on the secret when I saw the pair making out on the doorstep like teenagers on the school run 😂

canyouseemyhousefromhere · 16/08/2025 20:05

Phoebesparrow · 15/08/2025 21:26

Years ago,I had two friends who where slightly older than me

I was also very vulnerable and they took full advantage of this

They tried to control every single thing I did/spent money on/brought up my dc/decorated my house/clothes we wore etc

They dumped me when I grew a backbone and slagged me off to anyone who would listen and I lost a lot of friends

They caused so much trouble for me,I almost had a breakdown

I know that woman A only married her husband (and had two daughters with him) as he had a good job and has a minted family

If he'd been a bloke who had less money/assets she wouldn't have looked twice at him-the plan is to stay with him until the youngest is 18(and get a long marriage out of it so she'll walk away with more,plus she doesnt want to be a single parent) and then she's taking him 'for everything he's got' (her words not mine) and he's the sort to give her everything just because he loves her

She freely admits she has to 'grit her teeth' while having sex with him but to the outside world,they have a perfect marriage and are made for each other

The other fancies herself as an erotica writer

Most of the stories she's 'made up out of her head' are actually the affairs she's had behind her fellas back

She's a real life dorien green (birds of a feather)

i know dorien had an unhappy marriage in birds,and had lovers to fill the gap but this womans bloke would do anything for her and utterly adores her

She left her (then young) children to be with him (and had more dc with him) and is shagging anything that moves while he's hard at work in his two jobs or sat at home while she goes out with 'the girls' (she's not,she's in bed with one of her lovers)

She just loves the thrill of getting away with it apparently

They both know I could blow their lives up tomorrow and avoid me like I have the plague but flap their mouths thinking I don't know what's said about me

I won't say anything as it's not fair on two,hard working and decent men but it's tempting as both women have accused me of what they do themselves

Don’t you think these men deserve to know the truth?