Katie Price and Celebrities Back Tattle Life’s Downfall as Creator is Unmasked and Sued

Katie Price has led the celebrities supporting the take down of Tattle Life after the anonymous blogger was unmasked on Monday. 

British ‘business owner’ Sebastian Bond, 41, who goes by the alias Bastian Durward, has been confirmed as the secret mastermind behind the online forum with thousands of threads where people comment on influencers, celebrities and anyone with even the smallest public profile.

After losing a £300,000 defamation case after he was successfully sued by Donna and Neil Sands, celebrities have rushed to share their support for the couple against the gossip site. 

Replying to Donna’s Instagram announcement post, Katie shared an array of applause emojis before also taking to her Story to raise awareness. 

Meanwhile psychologist Dr Jessica Taylor took to Instagram on Monday to share that she and Neil Sands were beginning government action against Sebastian and the website itself. 

And Katie reshared the announcement to her story, which asked the government to begin criminal action against Tattle users. 

It read: ‘Individually, we were victims, but together with the ruling pursued by @neilsands_ and @donnasands_ – we are now unstoppable.’ 

A host of other celebrities also commented on Donna’s post as they shared their support after falling victim to the site themselves. 

Stacey Solomon wrote: ‘Thank you. ❤️ for all you’ve done’.  

Meanwhile actress Alice Evans commented: ‘Hopefully this will encourage more lawyers to take our cases on. 

‘Maybe we can make up some of the income we lost through their lies.’

Influencer Sophie Hinchliffe, who is best known by her online brand Mrs Hinch, penned: ‘Oh my gosh I pray this is true.

‘The website that has damaged my mental health and harassed me and my family beyond words for over 6 years. 

‘They’ve stalked me, lied about me, mocked me and my beautiful children. Accused me of the unthinkable, brainwashed my supporters. Sickening behaviour that I’ve silently had to put up with every single day. 

‘My thread (as I’m sure you’ve seen) is one of the largest on there , with hourly abuse. I hope to god this site gets taken down. Thank you for all you’ve done’. 

Big Brother star Henry Southan added: ‘Great news’ while Love Island’s Tasha Ghouri posted applause emojis.

Fellow Love Island stars Kady McDermott and Siannise Fudge wrote: ‘Thank you so much’. 

Ashley James added: ‘Amazing!!!’ and Sharon Gafka penned: ‘Thank you’.

Lauryn Goodman commented: ‘Well done guys! Amazing work now time for the data … who’s been behind those accounts! Thank you so much for taking this on .. it was huge!’

After Donna and Neil appeared on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, Lauryn also reposted the video as she commented: ‘Can still see the pain @donnasands_ has had to endure, Well done guys @neilsands_’. 

Responding to Sebastian’s comment that he ‘strongly denies ruining anyone’s life’, Lauryn penned: ‘I’m sorry the audacity…. SEBASTIAN you have denied it???? DENIED it?

‘You had SO much time to respond you ignored and still do. You’re actually in contempt of court. Honestly if you don’t laugh you’ll cry… just call him shaggy from now on “it wasn’t me.” Even with the piles of evidence.’ 

Thanking Donna and Neil for their work she added: ‘We can’t thank you both enough and the fight continues.. you kept going even though it took a lot of resources! Warriors’. 

Tattle’s site attracts 12 million visitors a month, and is supposedly aimed at exposing disingenuous influencers who make money from social media.

But it rapidly descended into a paradise for trolls to aim abuse at everyone including Mrs Hinch and Stacey Solomon to mummy bloggers with small followings.

Last week restrictions on identifying Sebastian were lifted after Neil and Donna were awarded £300,000 at the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland in 2023 after successfully suing Bond for ‘defamation and harassment’ in posts aimed at them on the site. 

For nearly a decade, since the site was set up in 2017, no one knew who ran Tattle Life, with the site’s operator going under the fake name Helen McDougal.

Many will be now surprised to learn the creator is in fact a man, who is the author and foodie behind plant-based recipe Instagram page Nest and Glow, which boasts 135,000 followers.

For the past eight years, the vegan cookbook author he has secretly presided over the site, which makes an estimated £276,770 in Google Ad revenue every six months, according to figures from 2021.

Meanwhile, influencers, their partners and even their children, have been on the receiving end of abuse and mockery over their weight and disabilities – while private details such as their home addresses have been shared on the forum.