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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

Animated GIF

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

👀👀

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:05

GreenFrogYellow · 15/08/2025 21:03

I’m pregnant. I have told some people IRL, but none of mine or DH family know yet… told them all years ago we’d never be having kids to stop the questions. Pregnancy v much planned. 🤭

Congratulations! ❤️

Hoping you have a safe delivery and a lovely healthy baby xx

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susiedaisy1912 · 15/08/2025 21:06

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 15/08/2025 20:08

I know that some shit will be going down at the scout committee meeting next week. I. Cannot. Wait.

😂

PhilippaGeorgiou · 15/08/2025 21:07

Jake and Nicola need to stop pretending they aren't having an affair because everybody already knows.

whackamole666 · 15/08/2025 21:07

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 20:28

🤭 I love it

A hobosexual could be anywhere, they walk around seeming like normal men, and then BAM, there they are trying to move in with you after two weeks!

Is hobosexual the new cocklodger?

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:08

whackamole666 · 15/08/2025 21:07

Is hobosexual the new cocklodger?

Yeah 😄

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:09

PhilippaGeorgiou · 15/08/2025 21:07

Jake and Nicola need to stop pretending they aren't having an affair because everybody already knows.

Say Word Wow GIF by Justin

😄😄 omg! Do their partners suspect?

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Skeletonheart · 15/08/2025 21:11

My SIL is waiting for a proposal but her boyfriend is actually still married 🤣

I’m laughing because she is awful, as is he tbh, he told me this when tipsy once, I later confirmed it with him and he swore me to secrecy. DH knows obvs.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:11

Spookedbythespiders · 15/08/2025 20:35

My friend told me in confidence that exdh had shagged an old flame at his wedding party. I made sure that the new wife (who wouldn’t leave him alone and was a big cause of our divorce when I was pregnant) found out. But my friend thinks it was someone else that told the new wife.

😄 I wouldve done the same. How did you make sure she'd find out?

Will your friend be upset? I wouldnt be tbh

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:12

Saracen · 15/08/2025 21:03

Next year my lovely sister is retiring early and emigrating from our native country, and will live closer to me!!! So exciting. We won't be in the same country, but will be able to see each other more.

I'm not allowed to spread it around because she has observed that once your friends discover you'll be moving away, many of them start drawing back from you because they feel it isn't worth investing in the friendship. They prioritise relationships with people who (as far as they know) will stick around longer. I can understand that, because I treat people that way myself! Human nature I think.

I'm 100% a 'dont announce it til its done' person, so understand

Congratulations on having your sister be closer 🥰

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CremeBruhlee · 15/08/2025 21:15

pollyglot · 15/08/2025 20:59

Out of the blue, a close relative appeared on Ancestry. Turns out he was my grandfather's love child from 1935

You aren’t from Pendle area are you? We had the same but it was us putting the posting on Ancestry after working through grandfathers history x

swampwitch0 · 15/08/2025 21:15

I am going to resign from a long standing voluntary role next month.
No one knows (except dh)
I'm utterly exhausted with both the expectations from the professionals I deal with and the - frankly insane -parents.
I'm proud of what I've achieved over the last decade but I'm also looking forward to less stress!

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:15

EveryOtherNameTaken · 15/08/2025 21:00

A friend of mine who's in the public eye had an affair. Her husband doesn't know and she doesn't know I know.

👀👀👀 do you think it will come out publicly?

I'm secretly guessing (based on my whimsical imagination) but won't ask any more about her (even though i'm dying to know 😄)

That reminds me, mylene klass is still hinting about her ex's affair - i'm still thinking its stacey s* but who knows

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TraintoManifeStation · 15/08/2025 21:15

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 20:57

Omg, tell me he was evil and you set her free from him to rest peacefully! x

Close! He wasn’t very nice but thankfully lived abroad.

He promised he’d be back the year after her funeral to scatter half her ashes. We scattered half when we got them back.

We waited but didn’t hear anything for 5 years and couldn’t get hold of him, after 4 we scattered the half we’d kept back.

Predictably, he then phoned to say he was coming here and wanted to scatter them. He made a huge thing of wanting to bring his new gf and go to the place my Grandmother had wanted them scattered. My mum panicked and couldn’t tell him we’d already done it.

So I spent a morning grinding up cat litter and sieving fag ends from ash so he had something and mum had kept the urn.

We went to the special place and he read a poem and cried and they took pictures of him with the urn. And he scattered the ‘ashes’.

My mum and me nearly died laughing.

He was horrible and inappropriate with young girls and my grandmother didn’t like him so she’d have approved.

GardenGuardian · 15/08/2025 21:17

I accidentally discovered today that someone I work with (same grade, different department) is under investigation. I have no idea what for but I’m dying to know and obviously can’t ask anyone because it’s none of my business and I don’t think I’m supposed to be aware.

I have no professional respect for them - they are very argumentative adamant in their assertions but often wrong (work stuff that’s easy to verify, and it would be perfectly acceptable if they just said they would find out and get back to you), definitely don’t work all the hours they should, and may have a low-key drinking problem. Would not be sad if they got managed out…

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

Rattatoille · 15/08/2025 21:18

Recently starting seeing someone I met at work and have known for 2 years.
Have been on about 4 dates, and latest one we ended up back at his house. He is on the rebound after a previous relationship that lasted 8 months, and we had a lengthy chat, in summary he said he met his last 3 exes on dating apps, none of which lasted longer than a few months, and that he wasn't "really looking for a relationship right now". Fair enough I thought, and told him I appreciated his honesty. He then took my hand and tried to lead me into the bedroom ! If I told you what i said to him, I would be banned from MN.
No one is perfect, but there were a few things about him which were red flags, for instance, not one but two mad exes !

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:19

Speenmoor · 15/08/2025 20:42

a very useful member of my team has handed their notice in, shit will go down when that is announced.

someone I know left his wife and shacked up with someone from work. His wife is now seeing the husband of the woman he has left her for!
Id love to be a fly on the wall when that comes out 🤣

😄😄 omg the shit will hit the fan for the 2nd scenario

I wonder if the husband who left his wife will get jealous

Office drama is my fave 😍

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:19

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 think its the ginger guy from season 2!

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:22

TraintoManifeStation · 15/08/2025 21:15

Close! He wasn’t very nice but thankfully lived abroad.

He promised he’d be back the year after her funeral to scatter half her ashes. We scattered half when we got them back.

We waited but didn’t hear anything for 5 years and couldn’t get hold of him, after 4 we scattered the half we’d kept back.

Predictably, he then phoned to say he was coming here and wanted to scatter them. He made a huge thing of wanting to bring his new gf and go to the place my Grandmother had wanted them scattered. My mum panicked and couldn’t tell him we’d already done it.

So I spent a morning grinding up cat litter and sieving fag ends from ash so he had something and mum had kept the urn.

We went to the special place and he read a poem and cried and they took pictures of him with the urn. And he scattered the ‘ashes’.

My mum and me nearly died laughing.

He was horrible and inappropriate with young girls and my grandmother didn’t like him so she’d have approved.

The selfies with the urn made me laugh 🤭

he wanted to bring his new gf was already a red flag, but him being inappropriate with young girls sold it for me, he deserved that

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UnhappyHobbit · 15/08/2025 21:23

I found out my nasty boss recently had an affair. Which surprised me as she’s been on maternity leave. She has been telling her mum that she was back at work but meeting up with her lover, who also happens to be her friends husband during the day. The perks of self employment! Her husband found out and is desperate to make it work for the kids sake. But being from a very conservative family, has sworn everyone to secrecy and does not want his parents finding out. I know of his parents and wondering that when I finally leave (notice has been handed in) whether I should tip them off?

labamba18 · 15/08/2025 21:23

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

Edited

You are a hero! And your friend too!

gotmyknickersinatwist · 15/08/2025 21:23

No gossip to add, but that gif is seriously annoying, and not just because of the typo.

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:23

Skeletonheart · 15/08/2025 21:11

My SIL is waiting for a proposal but her boyfriend is actually still married 🤣

I’m laughing because she is awful, as is he tbh, he told me this when tipsy once, I later confirmed it with him and he swore me to secrecy. DH knows obvs.

😭 he swore you to secrecy, what's his long-term plan?! 😄

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EveryOtherNameTaken · 15/08/2025 21:23

mumofoneAloneandwell · 15/08/2025 21:15

👀👀👀 do you think it will come out publicly?

I'm secretly guessing (based on my whimsical imagination) but won't ask any more about her (even though i'm dying to know 😄)

That reminds me, mylene klass is still hinting about her ex's affair - i'm still thinking its stacey s* but who knows

No, but if it did the fallout would be nuclear 🤯

PulchritudinousLycanthrope · 15/08/2025 21:24

TraintoManifeStation · 15/08/2025 21:15

Close! He wasn’t very nice but thankfully lived abroad.

He promised he’d be back the year after her funeral to scatter half her ashes. We scattered half when we got them back.

We waited but didn’t hear anything for 5 years and couldn’t get hold of him, after 4 we scattered the half we’d kept back.

Predictably, he then phoned to say he was coming here and wanted to scatter them. He made a huge thing of wanting to bring his new gf and go to the place my Grandmother had wanted them scattered. My mum panicked and couldn’t tell him we’d already done it.

So I spent a morning grinding up cat litter and sieving fag ends from ash so he had something and mum had kept the urn.

We went to the special place and he read a poem and cried and they took pictures of him with the urn. And he scattered the ‘ashes’.

My mum and me nearly died laughing.

He was horrible and inappropriate with young girls and my grandmother didn’t like him so she’d have approved.

I love it when people have the balls to do stuff like this.