‘They've tried to ruin our lives' says Brian Dowling as he breaks silence after long battle with troll website
BRIAN Dowling has broken his silence after a "long battle" with a trolling forum.
Last week on Friday, June 13, the owner of the Irish gossip website Tattle Life was revealed as Sebastian Bond.
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Brian has spoken about the 'long battle' himself and his husband has had with Tattle Life
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Neil Sands and his wife Donna wo n their defamation lawsuit against Tattle Life last week
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The online forum hosted threads of mainly anonymous people commenting on influencers, celebrities and general members of the public and it attracted up to 12 million visitors per month.
The owner was named publicly after an Irish tech entrepreneur Neil Sands and his wife Donna took legal action against the gossip site.
The couple won their defamation and harassment lawsuit over abusive comments posted on the site and were awarded £300,000 in libel damages at the Belfast High Court last week.
The owner, Sebastian, was also found to have had an alias Bastian Durward, which is known on the internet as a vegan cooking influencer and author of the book 'Nest and Glow'.
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The Nest and Glow Instagram account had amassed 135k followers, but hasn't shared a grid post since 2020.
Many celebrities and influencers have been overjoyed by the news after years of being bullied relentlessly on the website.
He said: "Also on Friday, my birthday, I got messages saying that the person that runs the website Tattle has been exposed and his true identity is now out there.
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"I am absolutely delighted. This is something, a battle, Arthur and I have been having with this website for a long time now.
"They have tried to destroy our reputation, ruin our lives in fact with the vile-ness they have been saying.
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"We have all the messages, we've spoken to the guards, we have screenshots, we have usernames, we have everything."
"And I get to find out who they are. I can't wait."
The Virgin Media
host and his hubby
have experienced an
''RABBIT HOLE'
The famous pair have been heavily criticised for their parenting techniques and are predominantly targeted for their sexuality.
Last year, just before the birth of their daughter Blu, Brian and Arthur endured a fierce level of trolling - to the extent that their address was leaked online.
Brian told
"You're not putting someone's address up just for the sake of it.
And that was very, very dangerous because obviously at the time at home; Aoife was heavily pregnant with Blu, Blake was a baby, everyone knows I'm on radio and telly over there, so I'm not there.
"And I just think that was when a line was crossed. Because it was our GDPR, it can't be broken."
Brian admitted he went down a "rabbit hole" on the website where his address was leaked and he found the "worst of the worst" that people were accusing him of from "paedophilia to sexual abuse to alcohol".
The 46-year-old added: "And you're like, 'Oh my God, these people are not like these people. It's not normal to do that.
"At the end of the day, it's also not legal. It's also not illegal unless they're stalking, which there is. And it is a hate crime, but it's just trying to prove it. I think if you're in different countries, it's easy to get details."
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