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At 17:30 UTC Friday 11th July 2025 Tattle received this email from loose women:

ROR for Loose Women
I'm reaching out on behalf of ITV's Loose Women. We have Brian Dowling on our Monday (14th July) show as a guest, and he will potentially be discussing his experience with Tattle Life.

Here are Brian's quotes from our research chat with him: “The whole ‘Tattle’ situation was extremely serious - it even involved the police. The owner eventually deleted every thread because the abuse was so horrific. They spread lies accusing me of things like paedophilia, raping and kidnapping my sister, drug addiction, alcoholism, and abuse at work. The worst of the very worst. They even posted our home address online and sent us photos of our house. We were being stalked and bullied for two to three years so we have screenshots of many of the messages, but sadly the thread is gone so there’s no proof. Someone shouted at my sister, who was seven months pregnant at the time, saying, “We know where you live. We will find you. The worst moment was when people took pictures in hospital rooms and leaked my sister’s medical records. Those were some of the toughest nights. I cried a lot, feeling helpless. The extent of their cruelty was unbelievable.”

Would Sebastian Bond / Tattle Life be able to provide a ROR for us to use on the show?

Please note that we broadcast live from 12:30 so would need a response in advance of this time.


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Tattle spent the weekend researching to see if these shocking claims had any truth at all. Brian has previously made unfounded serious allegations about tattle and rape in the media, but his claims appear to have morphed and got significantly worse in the last few weeks.

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Monday 9:30 AM 14th July after Tattle had investigated as much as we could in the timeframe and the following email was sent:

Hello,

We write in response to the series of claims put to Mr Bond/Tattle Life (“SB/TL”).

They raise a densely packed series of highly defamatory claims, including serious criminality. Having taken the weekend to review them, we have found no evidence to justify them.

In particular:

• SB/TL has not received a single report or ‘take-down request’ from Mr Dowling in connection with any post despite an easily accessible link available on every page of the site.
• SB/TL have not received any communication from the police in connection with Mr Dowling.
• The threads relating to Mr Dowling have not been deleted and are available here https://tattle.life/tags/brian-dowling/ .

Mr Dowling makes a very large number of claims about what has been posted about him on the site. Over the weekend, we have undertaken extensive enquiries to see what, if any, truth there is in his claims. This has involved the use of dozens of keywords, including a number of variants and related terms of the ones used in his pre-production call. These searches include any posts that have been ‘deleted’ due to breaching TL’s policies.

We have found no posts of the nature alleged by Mr Dowling. In particular, no messages have been identified that allege: “paedophilia”, “raping”, “kidnapping [his] sister”, “drug addiction”. There is no record of Mr Dowling’s address being posted nor of any photos or medical records of his sister – leaked or otherwise – ever having been posted.

In summary, the allegations of Mr Dowling’s that you propose to broadcast are highly defamatory and without basis in fact. Were they to be broadcast, we do not consider that any defences – including S.4 public interest – would apply. SB/TL expressly retain all rights in this regard.

We would be happy to meet with your producers and talk through and share the methodology we have used to debunk Mr Dowling’s claims in more detail. We would be happy to help your programme undertake its own reasonable and detailed pre-broadcast scrutiny of these very serious claims prior to any proposed transmission.

However, in the circumstances, we do not believe that Mr Dowling’s remarks, as adumbrated, can possibly be broadcast at this time. They are self-evidently defamatory and demonstrably untrue.

We invite you to confirm that Loose Women does not intend to broadcast these allegations.

Best wishes,

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The broadcast segment did not include the shocking untrue statements sent from their pre-interview and tattle was not mentioned.

We'll be sharing our research in the next post.

Investigation into shocking claims made by Brian Dowling to loose women pre-production

In the current media storm influencers are telling flat out lies along with gigantic misrepresentations. The person in question has over 22,000 posts on their threads, making it very easy to make outlandish claims. However, debunking each one requires a lot of effort.

The threads are overwhelmingly benign comments on people who overshare their life on social media to make money. It’s no different to celebrity commentary that’s always existed. A quick way to get an overview of the content of the threads is to read the most liked posts https://tattle.life/tags/brian-dowling/most-liked

“The whole ‘Tattle’ situation was extremely serious - it even involved the police. The owner eventually deleted every thread because the abuse was so horrific.”

We’ve had not one single report from Brian Dowling or a relation for any post. Every single page has a link to report a take down of a post so it seems remarkable to claim that such content was posted but not once he took 2 minutes to report it to us. Likewise the police have not contacted us about the threads.

We do not allow abusive or hateful posts, social media influencers may not like people discussing their life that they broadcast but comments an influencer doesn’t like are not automatically abusive or hateful.

The threads are viewable and can be read at https://tattle.life/tags/brian-dowling/ . Anyone can report a post if they see anything that oversteps the mark.

They spread lies accusing me of things like paedophilia, raping and kidnapping my sister

These are very serious claims. We’ve searched extensively, read thousands of message and asked regulars on the thread and no one recognises these ever happening.

What has happened is people have jokingly called his sister a handmaiden. But this was due to the arrangement of her giving birth for the first time as his surrogate. Where the baby was to go directly to the two men. His sister was not to hold the baby after giving birth, she would be immediately separated and not see the baby for at least a few weeks. This nickname was never to suggest criminal behaviour like rape or kidnapping like in The Handmaids Tale book.

The only time rape has been mentioned before Brian started telling the media this outrageous claim was the comment a comment in relation to safeguarding and sharing their child in swimwear on the internet as there are paedophiles on the internet. Many of the posters on the thread have been concerned with how the children have been used for commercial gain since the day they were born.
The only comment about paedophilia is also in relation to sharing inappropriate images of their children on their popular social media accounts.

No one has ever accused him of kidnapping his sister. Sometimes people have posted a “blink if you’re reading” as a joke:

drug addiction, alcoholism, and abuse at work. The worst of the very worst.

A handful of posts have wondered about alcoholism, but this has been due to the very regular posts of alcohol on Instagram, including saying he needed it.

We can’t find any posts about abuse at work. There has been speculation over his public fall outs with work colleagues including Davina McCall and this year a breakdown with his radio co-host. Both have been reported in the media.

No one has accused them of being addicted to drugs. One post makes a claim about cocaine use 16 years ago. We’ve found this for the first time just now and no one has ever reported it. We’d of deleted if someone did report as it’s an unsubstantiated claim. It’s been deleted now.

They even posted our home address online and sent us photos of our house. We were being stalked and bullied for two to three years so we have screenshots of many of the messages, but sadly the thread is gone so there’s no proof.

No one has posted his address. One person said they knew where it was due to him sharing daily his walk from the front door to the bus stop, but did not share the address.
Two people said they found it on a listing website due to what they shared online, but did not link to the listing or post the address. One did say the start of a postal district of Dublin. If this had been reported, we would have deleted as a number of a postcode breaks our strict rules on privacy, but no one did. It’s been deleted now.
They could have avoided this by getting the listing taken down before they started sharing the property online.
This was not done maliciously but more due to people's interest in celebrities' homes, as “through the keyhole” exemplifies.

If someone has sent photos of his house to him then this is nothing to do with tattle.

Someone shouted at my sister, who was seven months pregnant at the time, saying, “We know where you live. We will find you.

If this happened, then it’s nothing to do with tattle and is disingenuous to claim otherwise.

The worst moment was when people took pictures in hospital rooms and leaked my sister’s medical records. Those were some of the toughest nights. I cried a lot, feeling helpless. The extent of their cruelty was unbelievable.”

We’ve found no posts of medical records leaked or photos taken in the hospital. No one has ever seen these. One poster said they saw her in a hospital but that was it.

He had a reality TV show and book about his sister being a surrogate, where he apparently shared extensive details and showed her in the hospital shortly after giving birth.



We have a strict set of rules and it’s disappointing that influencers often tell the worst lies to misrepresent. They can't rely on the truth because the truth would be far too benign and wouldn't get people against Tattle.

Investigating these claims made has taken 2 man days. We’ve been unable to read every single post ever made, but have searched extensively, used AI and the regulars on the thread have helped. This is all true to the best of our knowledge and the best we can do in the timeframe we’ve been asked to respond to very serious claims without any evidence.

It’s very easy for an influencer to make up outrageous claims that have no basis in reality but takes a long time to investigate each one. But we always endeavour for the truth and welcome any evidence to back up claims.

(edit, thanks for the reports - this is just a rough outline of where the outrageous claims came from that we thought was worth sharing here. Rather than a polished piece that was sent out)

I bet he's fuming he couldn't roll out his enhanced sob story

As an aside, what a great word 'adumbrated' is.

Well done to The Moderator on this thread who must have spent all weekend reading back through past threads and making a suitable response to ITV & Loose Women to put this knob back in his box

Moderator said:

The broadcast segment did not include the shocking untrue statements sent from their pre-interview and tattle was not mentioned.

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Very very interesting indeed!

That's actually really funny that he went all the way there to rant about tattle trolls and then was banned from saying tattle and the team probably thought he was a right d!ck for making up the claims with no proof. Can't see them in a rush to invite him back. First here post btw, but read often and glad he's not got away with it this time.

Sebastian needs to give the mod a raise!

I have to say, and I’m outing myself here if that’s the case but I have only ever told the truth of this forum - my hubby and I reached out to Arthur on social media as our surrogacy journey started over a week ago (no IVF transfer yet ) but tests and labs and meetings (we’ve travelled abroad to meet last week) and we are planning a round for end of the year - anyway, Arthur could not have been KINDER, informative, gentle, sound and just overall loving in his responses and information to help. He has nothing to gain from us we are a normal family and he made us feel like he cared, offered to keep in touch and chatted for ages.

I'm enjoying imagining him all self-righteous heading into the tv studios. Being met with, right Broyan, we asked Tattle to respond to your allegations. And they said...
But you have evidence, don't you, Broyan? You have brought along that evidence, haven't you?

Quick change of plan, announcement that Broyan will be talking about Big Brother and while he can speak in general terms about being 'trolled' he cannot mention Tattle. Oops.

Thread suggestions

Keeping up with Pippa when they haven’t got a bean, poor Orfur sweating head to toe in Shein

I'm seeing some new 'faces' here, well done Broyan on promoting your thread!

Thread title suggestion: Hungover Daddy is feeling green while poor Papa is wearing Shein.

I'm creased at the idea of Brian Dowling, of all irrelevant people, gearing up to expose how 'awful' tattle is to the be told he can't because there's no proof to back it up

Well done Tattle mods

Freda Fandango said:

Cor luvaduck, got the message from Tattle which brought me here. He wasn't on my radar at all. I liked him in BB but he was a shit presenter.

I suppose his squealing and crying gets him a bit of relevance again. Jesus I am completely shocked at his appearance though, bleugh.

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We have a theory in Ireland - and I should imagine there's something similar in every corner of the world - this idea that when 'one of our own' gets too successful, or too famous - we feel the need to take them down a peg or two. Well, I don't think that's the case with the vast majority of us at all. Of course there will always be people who just moan about others for the sake of it, but generally, in Ireland we're delighted when an Irish person succeeds abroad. And so it was with Brian, when he won Big Brother all those years ago. I didn't vote for him, because I preferred the contestant who finished as the runner-up, but I was thrilled at his success, and pleased that he was able to make a career for himself in the media. And most ordinary Irish BB fans would have felt the same.

When I heard Brian was married, and he and his husband were going to become parents, I cheered. And gave him a follow on Instagram. I liked his husband a lot. And there was a lot of support for them on this site at the start of their parental 'journey', I believe. But unfortunately, over time it's become more difficult to cheer them on. And I'm sure many many Irish people are sad that this is how things turned out.

His narcissistic play the victim squealing will bring loads more of us to his thread

Top work to the moderator who sifted through all of that posts and information.

I've just come on here although I had no idea about that guy, but as I received the mods notification on the update, I checked the 'interview' on youtube... I know it's somewhat a 'serious matter' but I couldn't help but laugh at the whole conversation they had.

The debate had no structure at all, other than raving about the past and how 'loved' he was by the entire nation, so much so that 'people voted for me to win more than they voted for Tony Blair to be PM' - I thought it was an extraordinarily arrogant statement to make for someone who goes on a show to highlight his humility and distress over alleged hatred towards his character.

It was then followed by the 'online trolls' topic which again had no structure. He claims the hatred he gets is down to homophobia and racism because his partner is a refugee. I have never seen his thread so I can't have an opinion on what has been said, but my experience on tattle has always been to unmask the truth about manipulative influencers, criticise filters/false imaging and highlight poor behaviour esp towards their own kids.

People need to stop fabulating over reality tv participants - they're just extreme narcs who would go to any length to become rich and famous regardless of providing anything of any value to the world other than shock. I remember him to be funny back then, but he's not exactly Ricky Gervais, is he..! I don't know him at all other than BB 20 yrs ago, yet he was acting as if he was a major household name who struggles with fame on the daily. Maybe it's only me but I genuinely didn't know of his existence lately at all.

There is no platform of discussion and criticism over actors who play a part on any adverts on tv or online. Because everyone knows they are actors and these actors also know they are acting. Influencers are pretending, dangerously, to portray a lifestyle no one can realistically obtain or attain. They lie about an infinite number of things and there is no official body to check their activities other than the ASA which isn't equipped for this new line of sales people in their millions. Something as small as saying 'I bought' whereas they were gifted the items can piss a lot of broke people off, and the crazy irony is that broke people is their target market. Members have become investigators a lot of the time because nobody is moderating these influencers - and funnily enough they want discussion platforms to be moderated against criticism.

Brian’s shot himself in the foot because, I, probably like a lot of folks on here wouldn’t ever look at his thread because I tend not to look at threads for people I generally feel seem quite sound. I’ve not really heard much about Brian for years and had no idea he was married etc.

But you’d better believe I’m going to read everything now. Because you’d need to have something seriously wrong with you to lie that people have said you raped and kidnapped your own sister.

What’s the obsession about Tattle though? We comment on stuff THEY put online daily. We talk about things like how Orthur shoves his crotch to camera when he’s in his dressing room at dwts. We talk about how he never brought his mother on so much as a day trip down the country to see a bit of Ireland while she was here for 2 months. We talk about the fact that Aoife is minding their children while they are out of the home and we wonder why they don’t acknowledge that. We wonder why Orthur buys from Shein and doesn’t support Irish businesses when he wants Irish people to support his business. We talk about how he keeps name dropping Girls Aloud. We talk about how Bryon seems to have had a big fallout with Suzanne Kane. We talk about how they say things like Aoife looked better than the other women in the labour ward when Blake was born. Stuff like that.
And we can only discuss that stuff because THEY (especially Orthur) post their lives daily.
We are not involved in the absolutely disgusting, nasty, hate filled comments they get on Facebook and Instagram. That’s a whole different, horrible level.
Go after the mods that look after those outlets guys. And haven’t the moderators here confirmed that their address wasn’t given out here either.

Hector Crowbar. said:

As we say in polite society, her next ride will be her first one.

Seriously though, someone is bound to have had a rattle at her.

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Can we not speculate on Aoifes sex life ?

Her brothers a dose but she's not a public figure and she doesn't deserve that.