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

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

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

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A woman I work with seems to be going through some sort of mid-life crisis. We are all worried about her and have tried to talk to her but she just shuts it all down.

October last year she announced her husband was ill and was waiting for a diagnosis. By November she had left him and moved into social housing (she had owned her previous home).
Began sleeping with one of her clients. Spent thousands of pounds on plastic surgery for teenaged daughter and for botox/fillers/tattoos for herself.
Started dating a few different men at the same time and constantly showed us all the expensive gifts they bought her.
Started becoming unreliable at work, calling in sick or just not showing up at all, leaving halfway through the day or just not coming back from lunch. Eventually told us that she didn't want too many hours because it would affect her universal credit. Why or even how she could claim UC I don't know.
Then she announced she had a boyfriend and it was true love. Last month she moved in with him, after seeing each other for only 4 months. But the worst thing is she has kicked her kids out of their home.
She dropped her 13 year old daughter off at her dad's house with a bin bag of her things and told her she was living there now. She kicked her 18 year old daughter out and told her to find her own place or move in with her own boyfriend (who is also a student and living with his parents). I spoke to her 18 year old the other day and she says she hasn't seen her mum in 2 weeks, she (P) never replies to her daughters messages. She just seemed absolutely broken when she was telling me.
Her new boyfriends 12 year old daughter was then kicked out and told she is not welcome at her dad's house. P was genuinely pleased with herself when telling me this.
She's kept her social housing home (despite no one living there) and is still claiming universal credit even though new boyfriend is a high earner and she is capable of working full time.

It's all just so ridiculous and awful. She's a completely different person to how she was a year ago.

Ha ha 😂...and your sons!

I wonder if we know the same person? I haven't met the new man yet, but his profile appeared on her FB page a couple of months after Hubby moved out.

She recently told me of an earlier trip where he (the new bloke) had gone away with her while she was married.... and it was supposed to be for other reasons.

Did your friend tell her spouse to move their pets or she would get rid of them?

very difficult to remain on friendly terms with her. Feels all pre-organised.

Omg PLEEEEEASE share. My life is miserable

Early days for us yet but it's been fun discussing it and roleplaying 😊

You can't? Really? 😂

Oooh, are her initials CT???

Was he any good??? Or was he a selfish git? I always assume celebrities must be crap in bed bc they think they're doing a favour to the "civilian", as Liz Hurley memorably called regular people.

Are you sure you weren't imagining it? I don't know why her mind would whir at a married couple buying such an item. Presumably you were both wearing wedding rings. If it was older man with a ring and younger woman without, I could understand it.

She's a hero!

@PulchritudinousLycanthrope I agree with the above. And any man worth his salt would have asked you about it. He might even have considered if you'd been pressured into it, considering that the man was your superior. And just dropping you like a hot stone tells me that he might have had a Madonna/whore complex and is possibly not gifted with a whole lot of insight or humanity or imagination, not to have thought about those things. You say he's wonderful, but you don't really know him. On a number of levels, I don't like the fact that he took someone else at their word against you and just ended things. He might not be as wonderful as you think. 💖

I love your revenge, btw. Totally deserved.

I managed to grab 2 VIP front standing for my sons 21st too - absolutely delighted

The head teacher of the junior school that DS has just finished at had an affair with a parent at his previous school. He had to move to a job in a different LA. The irony that his current school is a church school is not lost on me.

He’s an excellent HT though.

A foursome? The logistics alone must have been a headache...

A Mitford?

I love this story. The effort to go to these lengths. Good for her I say.

Too much turning the other cheek going on in general in the world.

No. Think tall skinny ex addict.

Vile to people. Grabby too.
I've been in my industry years and she's a chancer. No interest in other women.

Oh my god, you're not related to the Mitfords, are you??

Happened long ago but two men of the cloth who legged it with 'parish' members, married said parish members and were sent to other parish at the far out reaches of the country hundred of miles from original parishes. Can't say anymore. But, signs of affairs were one suddenly had a very modern hair cut after greasy locks and the other wore stunning aviators. Nowt strange as folk.

I think the article said the incident happened before MK wedding, and that MK was pregnant...

Watch closely? I'm intrigued

TW??

I have one from ages ago. I never see any of the people involved and haven't for years.

Elderly ex-MIL has elderly couple friends going back decades. I know the friends, as we have stayed with them. They are a married couple who got together six decades ago, at university.

MIL told me that when the couple were 18 and dating, the wife - then the girlfriend - got pregnant and gave the baby up for adoption. I suppose it must have been during their first year of university. The couple then stayed together, got married, and had three more children. They remained together for about sixty years, until the wife died of old age a couple of years ago.

I found it very sad indeed, that they stayed together for the rest of their married life and had lots more children, but that the first child they made together was adopted. I have no idea if the adult children - now in their fiftes/early sixties - have any idea whether they have a full sister out there, and I dearly wished my MIL had never told me their secret. We would go to stay with the elderly couple, and I was terrified that something would slip out.

MIL showed me the profile of the first baby from Facebook. She's about seventy now, and, heartbreakingly, is the spitting image of her birth mother. I've met the couple's adult children, from back when we used to stay with the elderly couple, and I have NO IDEA if they know about this secret sibling. If not, it seems so wrong that I know and they don't. Anyway, I haven't seen them in years, and I won't, because their mother died, and the connection was the friendship between her and my MIL. Who's my ex-MIL, anyway. I don't even know if the husband is still alive. If so, he must be ninety.

It's so odd that they didn't have any contact with the child, but I suppose adoptions were closed back then and they never talked about such things. But I have wondered how the couple felt over those years, knowing that their kids had a full sibling out there. The whole thing sounds desperately sad, and I so wish my MIL had never said anything to me.

Also, the first baby was a girl, and the three subsequent children were all boys. Makes it sadder somehow.

I couldn't possibly confirm or deny.

If it's TW, it would not surprise me at all. She absolutely seems like the type who would try to bully women who are overweight.