A scorned wife took out a full-page ad in her local paper, publicly shaming her husband for being a ‘dirty cheater’. The woman, identified only as Jenny, expressed her anger in the August 12 edition of the Australian newspaper Mackay and Whitsunday Life. “Dear Steve, I hope you are happy with her,” read the ad, which was published in large font and all caps. “Now the whole town will know what a dirty swindler you are. From Jenny. PS I purchased this ad using your credit card.” The paper – which is read by more than 50,000 people in the tropical tourist area that sits next to the Great Barrier Reef – has been inundated with calls from curious locals wanting further information on the small-town scandal. The woman, identified only as Jenny, expressed her anger in the August 12 edition of Australian newspaper Mackay and Whitsunday Life.Mackay and Whitsunday Life Interest was so intense that the paper’s editors were forced to take to Facebook to inform the public that no further details about Jenny — the woman who took out the ad — would be released. They revealed that she booked the ad through their online portal, but did not reveal how much she tried to pay for the stunt on her husband’s credit card. The editors eventually decided to run the ad for free, saying it was illegal to charge Steve’s account without his consent. They added: “We do NOT know who Steve is, but he was obviously very, very bad.” The newspaper is published for local people in the Mackay and Whitsundays region. The tropical resort is located off the coast of the Great Barrier Reef.Shutterstock.com On Facebook, dozens of readers praised Jenny for humiliating her husband, with one woman writing: “Oh I wish I did when my husband left me for another woman.” “Hopefully that’s out of your system now. Go girl!” another fan raved. However, not everyone was buying the stunt, with one skeptic saying it may have been concocted by employees of Mackay and Whitsunday Life. “Good way to get more likes and readers on your page,” they said.
