Humans love to gossip . Whether you’re secretly critiquing the paint color your neighbors chose for their garage door (What were they thinking ?) or theorizing about your favorite celebrity’s latest relationship , it can be fun to wonder about what’s going on in someone else’s life.
But when a rumor comes your way, you’re probably used to taking it with a grain of salt. After all, just because someone said it does not mean that it’s true. However, sometimes, the world is shocked to find out that a spicy rumor was actually 100% correct. Redditors have been sharing examples of some juicy gossip that has been confirmed to be factual, so you’ll find the most surprising stories below. Enjoy scrolling through, and be sure to upvote the tea that you just know was piping hot when it was first revealed!
Harry Markopolos was working for a Boston investment firm when his boss told him a huge hedge fund was producing incredible returns. He wanted Markopolos to reverse-engineer its trading strategy and revenue streams so the firm could duplicate results. Within four hours he mathematically proved the fund was a fraud and reported it to the SEC who ignored him. 10 years later Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC was shut down for being a giant Ponzi scheme.
Toby_O_Notoby , U.S. Department of Justice Report
When Courtney Love said if you get invited to a hotel meeting with Harvey Weinstein, “don’t go”.
Rachellie242 , Friday Night With Jonathan Ross Report
John Lennon’s assertion that the US government was spying on him and listening to his phone calls. He sounded paranoid and full of himself at the time, but turned out to be completely correct.
Scrappy_Larue , UK Government Report
Rumours circled about Jimmy Savile being a pedophile for years but most people assumed he was a funny old eccentric and since he raised so many millions for charity no serious investigation was done until after he died. Turns out he was the tip of a very sordid iceberg .
zerbey , Open Media Report
Cases of widespread and systemic child sx abse by Roman Catholic priests as portrayed in the movie Spotlight .
Munninnu , Participant Report
They really did bury all those unsold ET cartridges in the desert.
gizmosdancin , XXIX29 Report
The political system of the United States of America has been hacked by a consortium of extremely wealthy businessmen who want to control all of the money, and enslave the general population of the country.
slowshot , Getty Images Report
In high school, a friend of mine got suspended for a week for spreading a rumor that his cousin was pregnant. She came from a really wealthy family who had a lot of pull in the school, which was catholic of course. She actually almost got him expelled because of it. Guess what happened five months later? lol Edit: A baby happened.
Avxxsiecle , freestocks Report
That the president of Korea was taking orders from a secret shaman who was also extorting millions of dollars out of companies like Samsung.
bobrossthemobboss , The Wall Street Journal Report
Bill Cosby being a r*pist. When it first “rumored” I was so confused.
pearoverlord , William Morris Agency Report
Soylent green was indeed people.
p1um5mu991er , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Report
When it was leaked that Britney was being held against her will for refusing to perform. A lawyer or paralegal had left a rambling voicemail about it and it leaked. I thought for sure this was fake, but it turned out to be real.
Maybel_Hodges , The Jonathan Ross Show Report
One of my friends in High School was accused of hacking into the gradebook program and changing his grades and attendance. They dragged him out of class and held him in the office in a little room for the remainder of the day, trying to sweat him out to get him to confess, as they had no actual evidence at all that he had done anything. They wouldn’t even let him go to the bathroom. All they had was that one of his teachers takes attendance and does grades on paper, then enters them into gradebook at the end of the day or week, and he noticed that some of his stuff had changed. Aside from that, they had no proof at all that he had actually done anything. He plead innocent on the whole deal, claiming that maybe it was a database error or whatever, or that the teacher simply forgot they made the change, or that someone had hacked in and made the changes on his stuff as a prank or revenge or something. After they couldn’t get anything out of him the first day, they started holding him in the office all day in the same fashion until the third day when someone called his parents and warned them of what was happening (I think it was one of his friends. Don’t quite remember). Within an hour his dad showed up, tore the Principal a new a*****e, threatened to arrest him for abuse (he was some kinda upper-up guy in State Police), and took his son home. They actually ended up suing the school, over the mistreatment of the kid, as they literally spent days accusing him and threatening him with various punishments if he didn’t come clean and such, refusing to let him use the restroom, not letting him have lunch, and basically trying to make him break and admit to a crime they had no evidence he committed. Settled for a pretty large chunk of money, if I remember correctly… He did do it, though. He totally did hack his grades and attendance. He was just good enough to not leave any evidence behind.
nubsauce87 , Mika Baumeister Report
Crash Gate : Nelson Piquet Jr being told by the Renault F1 team to intentionally crash his car into a wall in order to benefit his team mate Fernando Alonso at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. It was a wild speculation at first in 2008, until Piquet was unceremoniously sacked in 2009 and spilled the beans about it. I linked the wiki article to save typing.
dj_vicious , Motorsport Report Report
Donald Trump is actually a candidate for president in America. I remember people in my country joking about it when the first rumors came.
M2P2 , Wesley Tingey Report
Justin Timberlake being a tool for yearssss and finally getting the public side eye he deserves.
akchica23 , imdb.com Report
Mayor Rob Ford smokes (or rather smoked) cr*ck.
CaptObviousUsername , Miami-Dade Police Department Report
There were no WMDs.
anon , Pixabay Report
British comedians joke about Jimmy Saville having an interest in young girls, some years before his death. A ‘prolific’ s*x offender is an understatement .
nmklpkjlftmsh , Getty Images Report
That Liberace was gay. Did not see that one coming. I mean women loved him.
ks50 , United Press International Report
Lance Armstrong was doping the entire time. You have to be Weapons Grade Stupid to ever have thought he wasnt.
Northsidebill1 , Green Light with Chris Long Report
Not “favorite”, but most shocking… Arnold Schwarzenegger had a son with the family housekeeper. The son was a teenager by the time Maria Shriver figured out what was going on.
anon , Omar Lopez Report
Sony made up a fake critic, and put positive review quotes from him on their movie posters.
Joed112784 , Tubagus Andri Maulana Report
The NSA were monitoring us.
m00n1 , Dalton Abraham Report
Osama hiding in Pakistan.
SuddenDickTornado , U.S. Department of Defense Report
John Edwards, Presidential candidate, has a love child.
-917- , United States Senate Report
Caitlin Jenner being trans. I assumed that was total BS that the tabloids made up.
baby_doodlez , Vanity Fair Report
The media and DNC were in fact colluding to keep Bernie Sanders from the nomination and Hillary Clinton did in fact get debate questions in advance. Edit: Because I can’t reply to all of you. Just so we’re clear. Tim Kaine was the DNC chair, then Debbie stepped in just in time to rig the election. Then she was forced out and hired by the Clinton campaign. Tim Kaine is now the VP and Brazile is the interim chair of the Democratic Party after Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was forced to resign. Brazile was just fired by CNN for getting caught red handed for passing debate questions to the Clinton campaign. Now repeat after me…s**t is rigged. It shouldn’t be done this way and it makes me incredibly sad.
Gonegone6 , PowerfulJRE Report
Apple actually removed the 3.5mm plug.
torb , Manahil Manstashah Report
A teacher and a student fell in love in high school. At first I thought it was some exaggerated rumor but it turned out to be very true. The teacher left the school before the end of the semester and the student disappeared as well. Apparently the teacher left his wife and kids in order to pursue a relationship with a high school student. EDIT: This incident happened in Florida at a school where three other teachers didn’t have such a quiet ending: One was charged for possession of child pornography. One was charged with having sexual relations with one of his students. One was charged with sexual harassment of his students. All three of these teachers had families and children. EDIT 2: I know a lot of people are curious but it’s been seven years since I was out of high school and names of the teachers elude me. I’m sure you can find their record on one of those mug shot websites and I know there have been news articles written about them (I just don’t know their names).
Dried_Squid_ , Tra Nguyen Report
anon , Aron Gerschel Report
Hitler having Parkinsons was a big one in the 1940s and 50s.
RealPhali , Karsten Winegeart Report
Courtney from algebra 1 had gained a few pounds so we correctly predicted her pregnancy 7 months before her due date.
I_69_Gluten , Camylla Battani Report
ETA not favourite, I missed that when reading the title. Some of the worst things I’ve read so I was not happy for it to be true. Probably more UK specific but stuff about Jimmy Savile being a paedophile, rapist and necrophiliac were out there on the internet for years before he died and everything came out.
IShouldBeSoLucky81 Report
Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes - there were blinds she was plotting her exit and would divorce him basically as soon as 5 years were up (due to their prenup). She did.
womanlizard Report
Seriously, the Manhattan Project. We just take nuclear weapons as a given today. But it was literally a secret weapon that could destroy the world that the vast majority of people didn’t about for a few years. The conspiracy extended to the presidency, involved tens of thousands of individuals, top scientists across the country, and so much more. And they kept it secret.
JohniiMagii , Federal government of the United States Report
Rob Schneider pays Mexicans to choke him in the shower.
Rastaphobic , Touchstone Pictures Report
Charlie Sheen having HIV. I still remember thinking “lol what” when it was first reported.
IBurnedMyBalls Report
Cameron f*****g a pig.
juronich Report
South Korea was being ruled by cultists.
anon , Lauren Seo Report
That the colonies were going to rebel against the crown.
Scarlett_OS , chris robert Report
That Coach Carr was sleeping with a student…. “Don’t have s*x, you’ll get pregnant and die!”.
Manner16 Report
The nintendo switch actually is a home console and portable hybrid.
ancientquacks , Erik Mclean Report
At the time Jose Canseco made them, the Alex Rodriguez steroid allegations were considered to be pretty careless and baseless.
decidedlyunfair Report
The American government is actively spying on its citizens - hidden profiles and recorded phone calls. For years, these conspirators were seen as looneys wearing tin foil hats. Hats aside, they were right.
Panwall Report
My highschool sweetheart leaving me to f**k her favorite teacher. Okay maybe things were a little more complex than that, but I’m 99% certain she did and I’m 100% certain she got the clap.
samtheman578 , Getty Images Report
That original Pokemon cards were being reprinted.
SamKenz Report
Ned Fulmer of the Try Guys cheating on his wife with an employee! And so brazenly out in the open!
thebijou Report
For years and years and years there were blinds about the Smiths either being in an open relationship or acting as beards for each other. I always just thought it was the usual bull c**p people spin about anyone in a long-term relationship in Hollywood who gets on well with their coworkers causing cheating rumours. Turns out Jada cleared that up for us all, although I think like most people I would have preferred it stay in the blinds!
miltonwadd Report
KStew sleeping with that married director.
SitchChick Report
Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey possibly being brothers.
BFIrrera Report
Brangelina breaking up. So many tabloids on it every other month that I really didn’t think it would explode as flagrantly as it did.
Forksforest1 Report
Marilyn Manson turning out to be a sexual predator (is that the right phrase?) was not at all surprising.
SpiderGhost01 Report
Gretchen Mol blind item that exposed weinstein back around 2010 Bonus for the red carpet interview with courtney love that did the same.
Theproducerswife Report
Jim Harbaugh being forced out by the 49ers (NFL) and going to coach Michigan (CFB). Harbaugh raised the Stanford college team from ashes, and then made his move to the NFL to coach the 49ers in 2011. The 49ers hadn’t had a winning season since 2002. In his first year there, he went 13-3, and made the NFC championship game (playing to go to the superbowl, lost to the Giants who won the SB that year). The next year, he won the NFCCG and went to the superbowl (where he lost to his brother, John). The year after, again to the NFCCG and lost to the Seahawks (who won the SB). His last year he finished 8-8, which for any normal organization would be completely accepted - you just led the team to 3 in a row NFCCG’s, and a SB. But the 49er owner had his head up his a*s and essentially forced Harbaugh out that year. Now the 49ers are the second worst team in the NFL (only ahead of the Browns). Harbaugh went to coach at Michigan, and in year 2 there, they are ranked #2 overall, and probably the only hope to beat Alabama. At the time there rumors during the 8-8 season he was going to be released and what if he went to Michigan (struggling at the time)? Turns out they were true, and no one in NFL or CFB could believe it.
kylo_hen , Los Angeles Chargers Report
Bruce Jenner becomes Caitlyn The dude epitomized masculinity back in the ’70s and had that iconic Wheaties box. We haven’t even had a star gay player come out in one of the four major sports, let alone a gender change in someone so prominent.
laterdude Report
That the DNC was rigging the primary in Hillary’s favor.
bumchuckit Report
The author of the journals really is Stan’s brother.
King_Drumpf Report
The Springfield Isotopes being moved to Albuquerque.
SimonCharles Report
This is kinda niche maybe but I really did not believe Kailyn Lowry from teen mom was pregnant with twins after keeping baby 5 secret for a year. And then she was! Got pregnant with babies 6 and 7 like 3 months after delivering secret baby 5.
catnippedx Report
Armie Hammer being a cannibal. I was sure it was made up. Nope.
anon Report
Little Ahmed Mohammed intentionally created a bomb scare so when the school reacted his family could claim racism then sue the school and benefit the father’s political career.
DrunkUncle-Joe_Biden Report
The DNC is rigged against Bernie.
JZRh0 Report
Olivia Munn and John Mulaney having a kid. Still can’t believe it.
anon Report
Kylothee (Timothee and Kylie Jenner being together). I thought it’d be just another rumour but nope.
anon Report
Korrasami.
hugachainsaw Report
anon Report
My wife made me watch the first episode of Gossip Girl. She had already seen it before. At one point one of the main character said something and I was like, yeah he/she is Gossip Girl, my wife was mad that I was right and turned it off.
cocoboco101 Report
Not a Trump fan. Needs to be said because people on this website are quick to wrath. He absolutely nailed the “Anthony Weiner has Clinton emails” speculation, when pundits everywhere called him a kook and that there was no way he would be given access to classified emails like that. Well….
anon Report
Fallout 4. When it was confirmed, all hell broke loose.
RecallThis Report
Spongebob and Ariana. Because I’m a theater kid so I already followed Ethan Slater (I cried when he got cast as Boq lolll) but not really Ari, and I just could not wrap my head around it. Still can’t!
Past-Ad-2282 Report
When rumours started that Chrishell from Selling Sunset was dating G Flip, a younger, non binary Australian musician, my little queer heart was just SO invested and then it turned out to be TRUE and now they are MARRIED??? Fairytale.
kthnxluvu Report
Spider-Man being in Civil War.
Chriswick4 Report
I still find it really funny that fauxmoi were adamant the don’t worry darling blind was NOT real.
anon Report
Hillary Clinton’s cheating and law-breaking at pretty much every turn.
anon Report
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