Confess Your Sin Competition

Win Sarah Bradford's new book Lucrezia Borgia

Confess your worst sin and be in to win Sarah Bradford's new book Lucrezia Borgia - the real story behind The Borgias TV series!

This Competition Is Now Closed - See The Full List Of Your Worst Sins Below!

Thanks to all who entered this competition. Book winners will be contacted by email.

Your Worst Sins...

I put salt in my aunties cup of tea. She was surprised.

Wagging work rang my boss and said I put my back out but I didn’t want to go to work as I was sick of the office ladies gossiping.

Bless me TV3 for I have sinned. My sin is such it brings much shame. I must confess to always reading the TV Guide for TV1 first. The strength is strong for Coronation Street but confess that I have moved to the 'good' side with The Borgias. Forgive me. I have seen the light...

Giving my son a good hiding for giving his strawberry shortcake doll a mohawk haircut with the scissors in his new pocketknife.

When I was a teenager I had a flaming fight with my mother. She shut my bedroom door and I threw a chair at the door. The chair leg went through the wall and the chair was suspended in mid-air. It was hilarious. I had to cover the hole with posters the whole time I lived at home. When I moved out it turned out Mum had known about it the whole time!

I lied and cheated on my husband.

My worst sin would be when I was 12 and due to the fact that someone in my family had started to really annoy me and me being the vindictive person I am, I framed that person for stealing over $200 from another person in our family. Due to that he wasn't allowed a birthday party and was then grounded for over three months.

Getting it on with my girlfriends best mate at her parents batch in their bed.

I paid someone to beautifully mow the lawns then when my husband came home from work I told him I did it.

My worst sin is my unequalled love of chocolate - dark, white or milk, I just love chocolate. I also love my husband but if I get my hands on chocolate I never share it with him, I just quietly enjoy it (often in front of him but he is unaware). I don't even feel guilty… well I do sometimes but not enough to share it around. So that’s my worst sin and my best kept secret!

Not liking myself enough to give up my addictions before it was too late.

While a poverty-ridden backpacker around Europe, I had £1000 put in my bank account in error. I found out that if I'd spent it without knowing it was in error, they couldn't get it back. So I spent it. Still feel bad 15 years later but it made the next few months bliss while over there!

Wishing my ex-husband was dead.

Going out at midnight and putting a sign on a Labour Party Billboard saying “Don't” in front of “Vote for Labour”. Nearly got caught when a man from a nearby house came after me and I threw my Dad's hammer into the sea so I didn't have any evidence on me. The sign was there for two days and my mum a dad’s friends all saw it and were talking about it while I had to keep a straight face.

I've done every sin possible that the bible could mention.

I met my long term partner and father of my three kids in a bar. Unfortunately he was there with his brother and in the dim light I did not actually realise they were two different people. I thought I was flirting / dancing and carrying on with the same guy all night. (To be fair they are identical twins!) I feel continually blessed that the one who actually took my number and rang me was the one who was a better personality match for me. Physically they felt and looked the same. Whenever I see his brother I am still impressed with how hot he is and how attracted to him I am! Obviously lusting after my partners twin, then and now, is something I try to keep quiet.

Ate my sons Easter bunny!

Once I drank milk straight from the bottle in the fridge.

Keeping my relationships secret because of my parents’ expectations and cultural beliefs. Being a Kiwi in a multi-cultural society just means parents are going to live with being disappointed.

Bought an expensive dress and lied to my husband about the price as he wouldn't have been happy.

When I was married to my first husband we were in serious debt. He took the ostrich approach-ignore it - it will just go away all by itself! It didn't. It got bigger and bigger taking on a life of its own. Husband also refused to get a refinancing loan. So I did-falsifying his signature on the contract. Then when I was eventually confronted, I denied it all.

I once slept with my best friend's father while staying with their family. I have never told her.

The sin of gluttony, eating without huger or restraint.

Too much chocolate.

I found out my ex-boyfriend of many moons ago had cheated on me. A friend of mine who had a friend (who was my acquaintance, but not someone I particularly liked) with a reputation and at least one incurable STI that my friend knew of. We very ninja-like arranged for them to be at the same rather small, most-likely-going-to-be-drunken gathering and knowing they were both bound to make the rest of the magic happen without prompting, sat back and watched. A while later I managed to find out from a mutual friend that my ex was now the proud owner of herpes. I don't feel bad at all.

Blaming the cat when I fart.

Sex before marriage.

When I was young, I convinced my little brother that if he ate things with sugar in them (yummy cereal, sweats, ice cream etc) he would get diabetes and his limbs would fall off. I also told him that only boys get diabetes, so I could eat as much dessert as I liked. For the rest of our childhood whenever we were given desserts he would hand his to me and to this day he doesn't eat many sweet things. He's 18 now and he probably knows that he won't get diabetes by eating dessert but it's become such a habit for him not to eat dessert that I still manage to get twice my share when I'm at his house. All my other sins are too dangerous to talk about.

Walking around a hospital ward naked for five days and swearing at my visitors while unconscious.

Having an affair.

Tried on the perfect dress for a wedding but it was the last one and on hold for someone else at Myers. When the people behind the counter weren't looking I reached behind, grabbed the dress and ran to another counter to pay for it. So worth it, always get lots of great comments on that dress.

Stole some money out of brother’s wallet.

Not going to church.

I was in Lagos in Portugal and got very drunk as you do. So on the way home I needed the toilet very badly and my friend was making me laugh so much I peed my pants in the middle of the street. Forgive me for I have sinned.

Cheating on my final exam.

Drinking too much wine!

30 years ago almost to the month I started an affair with a client of mine who lived in the same street even! How dumb was that! She was an older, recently widowed Romanian lady with two young children, with a very great sense of loss of her husband, and a drinking problem. I came on the scene to take pity on her and help her with her drinking problem which then turned into an every night comfort stop for both of us before I went home. But it turns out she used other men for her comfort also as one night I turned up to find another man in her bed drunk and asleep and she encouraged me in also as he was not able to satisfy her. So I made love to her with this other man fast asleep beside us! Then I got a dose of STD! She refused to even go to a doctor for a check until I insisted. At that point I knew it was over but I was sussed by my next door neighbour anyhow that week and confessed all to my wife who had just announced she was pregnant with our first child. Talk about guilt trip! And living dangerously! Eventually our marriage fell apart over this and other issues but I have since remarried very happily for 18 years and never strayed again! The temptations however are still out there every day! Wives and husbands need to keep each other very happy in all ways possible!

Lied about my age to get a girl's attention.

I have shop lifted twice and got away with it both times.