Moral Dilemma #12 - Kiss and Tell
 

Scenario: You were once in a relationship with someone who has since become famous. Newspapers have a habit of sniffing out potential scandals and come to you asking you if you'll sell any kind of story on your former lover for a large sum of money (£250,000) due to the heights of fame your ex has reached. You never see your ex, what you tell the papers is true and you can't successfully be sued for libel - but if you choose to accept the offer, you face a media backlash from people who admire your ex and receive a lot of abuse from people in the street as a result of your decision. What do you choose? Money with the consequences or keep your story to yourself, despite the extremely easy financial gain you could get?

Edit: Your relationship ended badly, with you being perceived as the victim by mutual friends. The newspaper that has come to you has chosen to come to you first, because your story is the most interesting, but they have another former lover of the ex that they are willing to go to instead of you, if you don't choose to sell your story.

No, never, being the centre of attention in any context would be my worst nightmare...so I wouldn't do it because I'm selfish...let my family starve

Sell the story, I don't care about what any of their stupid obsessed fans have to say to me.

I would sell the story.

I actually may be in a similar situation sometime soon (unlikely but a possibility)

Ex has just got signed. We split up because he was sleeping with men behind my back. papers would love it :bored: :laugh:

I'd sell the story for sure

Yeah I probably would, nobody would care in a few months time but I'd still have a tidy sum of money from it

Sell obviously. I want money.

I have no big stories on my ex's :( But if I did I probably would sell it.

It's a no brainer, sell the story of course. Abuse in the street I get every day - hey I live in SE London:joker: Besides with that sort of money I'd emigrate to Italy and buy a villa in Amalfi.

Take the money.

I'd take the money and be straight on a flight out to some sunny island where I wont have to hear any of that abuse.

I would sell it yepp.

Ok..so I'm the only one with no money here because the dilemma didn't give the option of taking it and not facing the public......I thought that was the dilemma

I've always said and joked about the fact that if I were given the opportunity to shag a celebrity, I'd do it, probably to be honest no matter who they were...so even people like Madonna etc (though there's ones I'd prefer that's for sure). Purely for the fact that I could say I'd had sex with a celebrity, and, most importantly, so I could sell my story and make a mint from it.

Difficult to say with someone that's going to become a celebrity though, I think it's an entirely different question. It'd depend on how much I hated them, how they had treated me since and overall just how I felt about it all as to whether I sold my story or not, but I probably would.

Sell the story.

Along with a sex tape.
[Bonus Money]

No, I wouldn't sell my story

I'd like to think I wouldn't do it, I would hate the attention and I also think it's a rotten classless thing to do but I'd be lying if I said I was 100% sure I wouldn't with that amount of money dangling in front of me, especially since he was a prick :laugh:

This, basically.

Sell it and fly to another country.

Job done.

http://www.timetravelafrica.com/imag...sunset-720.jpg

That picture would probably be enough to sway me ^ :laugh:

Sell it who gives a ****

In this hypothetical situation - sell it. In reality my ex has been in the news but not for good reasons. He is in jail now. Hope he rots

I wouldn't sell the story, money doesn't really motivate me to do things.

Kiss & tell.

(In fact I've got a story I could tell, just slip £250,000 into my account and you got it)



With that money I would spend a couple of months somewhere hot until it all dies down.