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

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

The follow up thread to my one from last year 🤭

Oh god I have a few (that I wish I didn't know!). The hardest one is that my uncle had a child with an AP who is a family friend. Her son and husband both believe they are father and son but we all know that it's my uncle. We have to see them regularly at weddings, funerals etc too.

My NDN is a secret drinker. I saw 3 empty vodka bottles in my glass collection box when I put a wine bottle in it very late at night before it's collected at 07.00 the next day.
I kept watch next time & saw her.

My old colleague used to shag several different men in the store room (not all at same time) I don’t know if any were aware of each other but probably did

I mean, that's not really juicy gossip is it. Just you being judgemental and presumptuous. Why on earth would she tell her neighbour that she drinks?! And how do you know it's her who drank it all?!

That's awful. I really feel for the poor man.

Me too , 2 of my cousins kids weren't his . Turned out his wife was having an affair the whole time they were married and before . The day they married she was having sex with the guy before the wedding. He didn't get a dna test on his eldest because he believed he was his . Doesn't see the younger 2 kids he raised for years because it would be confusing for the children.

It broke his heart to lose those kids , he adored them

My SIL does this. She doesn't know that we know though. She makes a mean chicken pie. I'm sure she does the pastry - she is a very good cook really - but the chicken filling is the chicken in white sauce that you buy in tins.
I asked her for the recipe before I found out but she never 'got around to it'. Now I know why!

I know a relative has died but I suspect others in the family don't yet know. I found out in a roundabout way. The family is completely fucked up so I'm keeping my head down. There's next to no chance of anyone finding out that I knew before they ever found out (if they ever do).

My mother in law, when her husband wasn't around, made little secret of what a great time she had with all the boys in uniform working as a Fanny in Signals at Bletchley.

Her father was in the US working for mafia gangsters when she was conceived. None of the family ever talked about it but she was always known as "The Duchess" and looked nothing like the rest of the extended family.

"Father" returned very suddenly, unannounced, wearing a chalk pinstripe carrying a wad of cash. It was always assumed he came back instead of being arrested/assassinated.

I wish my family history was as exciting!

There is a lovely middle-aged couple that live two doors away from me (I've been divorced for donkey's years, live alone with cats 😺) who are well liked, very community minded, chat to everyone in the street, have a lovely lifestyle it seems.....but about five years before they moved in that same husband asked me to have an affair with him when he was a regular at a petrol station I used to work part-time at. Obviously I declined, but he must've thought wtf when they moved in and he saw me. I now chat with both him and his wife like good neighbours do, but WE KNOW 😄

Yeah how can you measure somebody not knowing something. They'll just never know it and are hardly likely to start filling out surveys about it.

I'm an academic. I know of two instances of married professors sleeping with PhD students. Contrary to what you might expect, they were female professors sleeping with male PhD students. Even more awkwardly, both of their husbands were also professors in the same department. One of the cuckolded husbands was on the thesis committee of the student who was sleeping with his wife. It was widely known. So awkward.

Did she tell you? What a cruel and selfish admission. As this is secrets, I think the same has happened to my DS and DiL. He made the ultimatum, she couldn't face IVF and took them down a potential surrogacy route for a couple of years, then couldn't face the horror of that. So they're back to IVF, but not yet quite started. Meanwhile time marches on/runs out. They're in their late 30s. He has always wanted children. She never did, until just after the ultimatum. Now apparently she dearly wants them too, but looks like stalling to me. I hope i'm wrong.

I just listened to a podcast called inconceivable truth or something like that , a man thought he should try to have a relationship with his deadbeat dad ,he left when he was small and he was raised by his lovely stepdad. Turns out mom was insemination in 70s by donor sperm not her husbands like she thought. Regulations didn't exist at the time . There are 23 and me and my heritage dna tests freely available he used these . She will find out and be devastated by the lies

My MIL used to shag her 1st cousin, and only stopped when his Dad told him to stop, as he was also her Dad, so they were half siblings.

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It's a statistic that came from doctors blood testing children and from knowing the inheritance of eye colour and some inherited diseases.

I don't know how accurate it is.

My neighbour is definitely up to something interesting, most likely prostitution. Front curtains always drawn. A series of different, mostly very expensive, cars park out the back.

The local police have rung our front door bell a couple of times over the last year to ask whether we've seen anything suspicious "in the local area", "how well we know our neighbours" and whether we ever hear any disturbances late at night. We never do. Most of the comings and goings seem to be in the day, but no sound is ever audible outside her house.

We've only met the neighbour a couple of times. She's an attractive woman, probably about 35-40. Polite. Friendly but reserved. Last time we spoke I asked about splitting the cost of getting the fence replaced as the posts were rotting. The deeds say it's a shared boundary but she wouldn't let us contribute and had her own contractor build a very solid, very expensive and durable-looking replacement fence the following week. So, clearly she has plenty of money – and values privacy and controlling when work is done and by whom over saving a few grand....

Looking it up, it's believed to be between 1 and 3 %. Figures on DNA tests are a lot higher because they are being done in the first place because of suspicion over paternity.

Previous employer is subject to a takeover bid. I did the research insight into it yesterday for the other company.
Sadly they will make millions.
Not sure they deserve it but I'll get nowt after refusing their stinky contract.

I have at least one secret sibling, conceived by my father when he was already with his second ex-wife! Hence the ex. There are strong rumours that there is a second one.

I daren't ever do one of these DNA tests, too afraid what turns up!

My son has a different blood group to me and DH but he is definitely DHs, they are like twins

A bit more lighthearted but when I was a child I used to live next to a big family. The parents were always a bit alternative but apparently they have really gone off the deep end now.

The father of the family apparently genuinely believes his youngest son is a reincarnated alien.

The youngest son being the kindest, most normal and stable member of the family.

On a slightly unrelated note, there is a philosophy academic in the US called Agnes Callard who did something similar, but has spent most of the time since trading in her husband for the younger PHD student trying to intellectualise the fact she just fancied sleeping with a younger man. It's quite amusing to witness

It's good that there are such strict restrictions - patents need to know their data is safe. Separately, though, I have two unrelated friends, who live in different countries, who have both found out that their fathers are not their fathers through Ancestry DNA type testing. In both cases they were using the system to find extended family - neither had any idea that their immediate family was not as it seemed. It's much more likely that this sort of information will come out now than it was before.