Share the secret lives you’ve imagined for your neighbours with Sky Cinema - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

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Though you live closely to each other, it’s possible that you know very little about your neighbours other than how terrible their parking is. But, that doesn’t stop you imagining what might be going on inside their walls. Inspired by their premiering of Keeping Up With the Joneses, starring Isla Fisher, John Hamm and Gal Gadot Sky Cinema would like to hear about the funny rumours you’ve heard about or the secret lives you’ve imagined for your neighbours (past or present).

Here’s what Sky Cinema has to say: “Sky Cinema makes it easy to find something you want to watch by showing a New movie Premiere every single day of the year. This summer there is a fantastic range of movies perfect for movie date night in from Keeping Up with the Joneses, to Allied to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them.

So, whether you’re convinced that the woman at the end of the road is MI5, you have some inventive theories about why the neighbours leave the house so early on a Sunday, or you’re a curtain twitcher who treats the neighbour’s lives like entertainment, share your stories below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 John Lewis voucher.

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My retired neighbour has a lady friend that sneaks in and out. No-one has ever met her but most of us have caught sight of her, so their secret life is not as secret as they hope.

Mines a Russian babu shaka who spends most of the day smoking outside whilst in her dressing gown. We think she's a sleeper cell agent

Our ex neighbour was the strangest. On moving in he had electric gates fitted and high fences put up all around the property. Every time he left the house, summer or winter, he had a hat of some description and dark glasses. In 4 years he never spoke to anyone nor did we ever see his face. We alternated between thinking he was a big celeb wanting some peace and quiet or a Mr Big who was on the run from the police.

The neighbours opposite ours are doing their house up, but I have Never seen anyone in there. This has been ongoing for THREE years now. When I was pregnant and couldn't sleep I used to pace up and down the hallway and gaze out the window. A few nights I would see the lights on in there at 3am. Maybe they're vampires I told myself, and they're obviously going to be up at night. There's a 24hr Tesco down the road so that's convenient for them. Or maybe the people doing up the house are axe murderers and burying the hacked up bodies in the floors and walls of the house they're doing up. OR they're tunnelling under ground a couple of miles to access some kind of diamond vault/bank/art gallery. How the mind wanders after watching a movie right before bed

NDN are a sweet young couple. She shops most of the day and swans around looking gorgeous. He's gone all day and most weekends too. They have money that's obvious but not sure what they/he does. I imagine he's some famous footballer that I've never heard of but all the girls swoon over. And that one day my footy mad brother will be round and say "that's so and so omg you're so lucky he's so famous" and introduces me to this famous person because he's so awestruck. Then we become BFFs and attend fancy parties on yachts and things. V glam!

Our neighbour is a convincing alien in the style of Galaxy Quest.

loud noises coming from the drive in the middle of the night.giggling couples.we though they were swingers!
foil on windows.we thought they were fighting alians (apparently it keep bedroom dark??)
every night one leaves at the same time around 4am ish.im desperate to no where to.it must be a job as its the exact time each night.but we no the jobs of the neighbours is furniture and staging.so who is it and what extra are they going/doing?

We have lovely 'gaybours' who seem to have a menagerie of animals. They have a dog and several cats, they breed hamsters, have hens, 2 geese and have just built a 6ft wall ... we're wondering what's moving in next!!

Our neighbours have an incredibly organised laundry regime, once there was 25 bras on the line, we think they are celebs who have lost their fortune but kept the clothes!

Our neighbours are actually really nic but there was a night last year when I thought he's killed her! It was 2am and they came in screaming at each other which has never happened before or since. It went on continuously for about an hour and a half until suddenly there was a massive bang (wasn't the front door) and silence! I lay there all night wondering f if I should call the police. Saw them a couple of days later. Lol!

There's a house across the road from us with blankets over all the windows at the front of their house, perhaps they just value their privacy but they're not overlooked by anyone and are just drawing attention to themselves by doing this! They keep themselves to themselves so they do have secret lives, whatever it is that they do!

Well we have the oh we must have that neighbours who seem to change cars and electrical equipment as fast as they are changed, then there is the constant takeaway ones a different takeaway each night and then the smack heads who have now been removed who just made everybody's life a misery

Our neighbours all seem disappointing normal. But i do imagine my old boss would have been an excellent secret service agent - very intelligent and rather ruthless.

We joke with one that we think he is a spy, gets picked up in a black car, works away from home for a few days then arrives back home, irregular hours too he plays along with it... unless it's true and he is just confirming suspicions

When we moved into a small new housing development we discovered the neighbours had invented a story about us. Harmless enough; they'd decided DH was a doctor, but never asked us if this was the case. We didn't realise this until the woman from over the road hopped round wanting DH to check out her ankle.

I have decided the house on the corner of our road is actually some kind of Tardis. From the outside it looks the same as all the other houses in our part of the street yet the amount of adults who seem to live there means it must be bigger on the inside.
The house over the road has so many security lights that we had to get black out blinds. I think they are scared of the dark, or being burgled ofcourse.

We live near "Magician Man". He looks like an old fashioned magician - very smart, waistcoat, handlebar moustache - all he needs is a shiny black hat. He puts big boxes in the boot of his car when he goes out and we are convinced that is all of his magic equipment!

Probably very wrong though!

For a while we had our own Mr sweeney (from Victor Meldrew programmes) where he would suddenly appear from behind his car or behind the bins and make us jump a mile by saying a cheery good morning.

in terms of secret lives - there's one who goes for a suspicious looking walk at exactly the same time everyday - we often wonder what that's all about and why it has to be timed precisely to the minute.

we live next door to Mr Grey, not that one alas, grey may be his surname but he is more like victor i dont bloody believe it meldrew. his only young but everytime we hear them in the garden we go indoors as they are constantly moaning meldrw style not grey in the most awful whiny voice.

My neighbours are really nice, very friendly and helpful. He is in his 50s. ageing hippy. He spends a LOT of time in his shed and judging from the fruitful aroma of his roll-up cigs, I often wonder if he is a attending some sort of crop in there.....

Ours are international drug dealers who pretend to be normal everyday people, going out at night when they think no one is watching, unfortunately for them them I suffer with insomnia and also have a camera set up at the front of my house which records their comings and goings. The neighbours on the other side are illegal immigrants, they leave the house early in the morning and don’t come home till late to try and avoid the police and immigration officers that are trying to catch them and get them deported. And me? Well I just have an overactive imagination

New people moved into our lane, youngish couple - he always seemed to be around, never went to work - I suspected they were lottery winners, DH thought they were dealing in something illicit (we even refused to take a parcel in for them once cause we were unsure what we were signing for). Half a year later we chat to them all the time and just turned out he was an engineer who works 4 nights, 4 nights off... How silly we felt!

I'm sure our neighbours are nudists. They always take a long time to answer the door, almost always in their dressing gowns!

I think my neighbours are some rich people as they have lots of fancy things and pay people to clean their bins and windows every couple of months

I have imagined my neighbours have my neighbours have been abducted by aliens as they are never there.

Non working, yet many dodgy tropical plant smelling people calling, lots & lots of luxury things wink wink, leaves my mind to think......import and export executives?!