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To think she owes him a public apology?

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CircusofPuffins · 22/08/2025 21:05

Has anyone else been following this story?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15024445/Conor-Maynard-paternity-test-results-revealed-Charlotte-Chilton-demanded-second-test-ongoing-row-daughter-Penelope.html

Brief summary: Charlotte, from S2 of The Traitors UK, claimed she had a ONS with Conor Maynard, resulting in the birth of her daughter. She was quick to drag his name through the mud as being a deadbeat dad for not providing her with support, but two paternity tests later, it has been conclusively revealed that he isn't the father.

What an embarrassing situation for her. Surely as a woman if you're shagging multiple men at a similar time, it's basic sense to at least be sure of who the father is before publicly naming them and making accusations!

Perhaps she hoped it was Conor because he was single at the time, and the other potential father/s weren't?!

That poor girl. She's going to see all this online when she grows up. And all because of her mother's stupidity.

Surely Charlotte owes Conor a grovelling public apology at the very least?

Charlotte Chilton breaks her silence over second paternity test result

Charlotte, 32, announced in June last year that Conor, also 32, was the father of her unborn 'miracle' baby.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15024445/Conor-Maynard-paternity-test-results-revealed-Charlotte-Chilton-demanded-second-test-ongoing-row-daughter-Penelope.html

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ImGoingUpstairsToTakeOffMyHat · 22/08/2025 23:16

Aaaaah I thought you meant not-Welsh Charlotte at first. The only thing that would make it weirder!

But still more obscure season 2 Charlotte is still a weird story

Itstheshowgirl · 22/08/2025 23:18

This whole story is just mental, why go to all that hassle when there is even the tiniest possibility that it is going to show he isn’t the father and thereby make you look like a complete idiot. She says she is considering next steps or something similar on her statement, surely she can’t still be considering pursuing this further, she needs someone to give her a reality check.

CircusofPuffins · 22/08/2025 23:27

FuzzyWolf · 22/08/2025 21:58

Charlotte was married at the time, to another woman who has since separated from her, and they spent years going through IVF. Her ex-wife now knows, in the most public way, that she was (at least) doubly cheated on after Charlotte claimed separated before it happened (although she was pictured wearing her wedding ring at the wrap party where she says she had sex with Conor).

Very good point, I'd forgotten she was married to another woman while she was clearly at it with multiple men. And now to have this so open in the public...I guess it shows she failed at being a faithful on multiple occasions! 😆

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MolkosTeenageAngst · 22/08/2025 23:30

I love the traitors but don’t remember her (or almost anyone else from Season 2). Seems like she wanted to be in the limelight/ become a celebrity and thought having another celebrity as her baby’s dad might be the way to get there. I guess even if he’s not the father it’s partly worked because her name is still getting airtime,

CircusofPuffins · 22/08/2025 23:30

MounjaroMounjaro · 22/08/2025 22:52

Same here! I have no memory of her at all! Did she get kicked out early on?

And who's he, while we're at it?

Yes, I do think a public apology is needed when you drag someone's name through the mud and you're completely in the wrong.

If memory serves me, she got a reasonable way towards the end, but was consistently wrong in who she thought were traitors. She also had quite an obsession with Paul so...draw your own conclusions.

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Ratafia · 22/08/2025 23:34

People who claim that baby looks the "double" of Maynard must be looking through beer goggles or something. She looks nothing like him.

bluecrochetedplane · 22/08/2025 23:59

She definitely needs to apologise although it will never be enough. The poor child too having to find out this and how public it was when she's older.

I found it funny when he announced the first paternity test result, how she was upset that he had told the world but yet she found no issues with telling the world he was the dad and blasting him for not stepping up.
Shes unhinged.

Jigglypuff33 · 23/08/2025 00:06

I don't think she owes him any apology at all.

Ratafia · 23/08/2025 00:28

She swore blind only he could be the father, and accused him of trying to cheat the tests. She certainly does owe him an apology.

PinkFrogss · 23/08/2025 00:36

Jigglypuff33 · 23/08/2025 00:06

I don't think she owes him any apology at all.

why not, out of interest?

Christmasbear1 · 23/08/2025 00:39

The baby looks so like Conor I almost don't believe the results. Apparently for the first test he changed the test centres last minute...

Christmasbear1 · 23/08/2025 00:42

He also was adamant he couldn't be the father which I don't understand. How did he even know throughout the whole pregnancy that it wasn't his before they even did a paternity test? They slept together so there's always a chance.

UserOfDifferentNames · 23/08/2025 00:53

Christmasbear1 · 23/08/2025 00:39

The baby looks so like Conor I almost don't believe the results. Apparently for the first test he changed the test centres last minute...

Looks like she tried to accuse him of trying to fake the test as she didn’t get the result she wanted.

The 2nd test was apparently done with legal reps for both of them in the room though.

It is a rather shocking story, especially as this woman has publicly outed herself as not knowing who the father of her baby is.

Why run to the press when there was a chance he wasn’t the father, which she must have known as she was obviously having sex with more than one man?

Poor child, reading about that when she grows up,

It’s telling that there has been no public apology with that statement. She’s dragged him through the mud and tried to make him look like a deadbeat which must have been extremely stressful.

Nasty.

UserOfDifferentNames · 23/08/2025 01:00

Christmasbear1 · 23/08/2025 00:42

He also was adamant he couldn't be the father which I don't understand. How did he even know throughout the whole pregnancy that it wasn't his before they even did a paternity test? They slept together so there's always a chance.

He may have a medical condition which he doesn’t want to make public (why should he?) or he knew he was wearing a condom (which again he may not have wanted to talk about his sex life in public) which granted is not 100% reliable but he obviously had access to facts not shared with the public and he was right.

VeryStressedMum · 23/08/2025 01:01

Surely if a woman is having sex with more than one man she’d be a little more cautious about declaring the father without a test first.
Has she said he must be the father because I did not have sex with any other man at that time?
I actually don’t know who these people are but I read about it ages ago

CircusofPuffins · 23/08/2025 01:07

Jigglypuff33 · 23/08/2025 00:06

I don't think she owes him any apology at all.

Why? She basically defamed him. She's quite lucky he's not taking her to court.

Have a look back at the Loose Women interview she did, where she's asked about being in contact with the father, and she goes on about the effect he's had on her mental health...

And it's amazing that LW took what she said as gospel on this too. Surely there's a lesson to the media as well to do better due diligence on this sort of story, particularly when it turns out to be untrue?

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XelaM · 23/08/2025 01:23

hellohellooo · 22/08/2025 21:27

Ok I agree

And yes it is madness

Have you seen how much the baby looks like him

It doesn't - it looks like an ordinary baby with no particular notable features. The only baby I have ever seen where paternity could not be in dispute was Boris Becker's baby Anna 😂 That really was like Boris in a pram.

DBD1975 · 23/08/2025 01:34

These people are fame hungry wannabes.
Any publicity feeds the beast within them and they thrive on the drama.
Good luck to them!

Velmy · 23/08/2025 01:37

I wouldn't expect any of these fame hungry, empty-headed reality show types to have the shame to apologize to be honest.

NoCommentingFromNowOn · 23/08/2025 02:05

@VeryStressedMum I actually don’t know who these people are but I read about it ages ago

Same, same 😂

Actually, the less I know who they are, the more I’m interested in the nitty gritty 🤔. Weird.

DressOrSkirt · 23/08/2025 02:40

UserOfDifferentNames · 23/08/2025 01:00

He may have a medical condition which he doesn’t want to make public (why should he?) or he knew he was wearing a condom (which again he may not have wanted to talk about his sex life in public) which granted is not 100% reliable but he obviously had access to facts not shared with the public and he was right.

Then why even take any paternity tests?

Clearly there was a possibility he was the father, yet he wouldn't step up or take those tests until there was publicity around it.

MrsClatterbuck · 23/08/2025 02:44

XelaM · 23/08/2025 01:23

It doesn't - it looks like an ordinary baby with no particular notable features. The only baby I have ever seen where paternity could not be in dispute was Boris Becker's baby Anna 😂 That really was like Boris in a pram.

Ditto Rowan Atkinson

spoonbillstretford · 23/08/2025 02:47

I vaguely remember her being quite annoying in S2 now I've googled. Such a non-entity though really. Journalists are scraping the barrel writing about such nonsense.

OwlBeThere · 23/08/2025 02:50

BatchCookBabe · 22/08/2025 21:51

How embarrassing. 😬 What kind of woman doesn't know who the father of her baby is?!

I don't think the baby looks like him at all. (And why would she? He isn't the baby's father!) I do agree that this woman (Charlotte Chilton) has made a massive fool of herself, and should say sorry to him publicly. That statement from 'thinkinghatmedia' is utterly pathetic.

An it’s good to know slut shaming is alive and well in 2025.

DenizenOfAisleOfShame · 23/08/2025 02:55

What a mess.

The trouble these days is that any wannabe can tell the world anything on X, Insta, whatever. A lot of people get hurt along the way.