Women can’t keep secrets for more than 47 hours

While 83 per cent of women believe they are “completely trustworthy” and three in four claim they would never betray a confidence,it is unlikely they keep their lips sealed.

And their likely confidante is their husband,boyfriend,mother or best friend.

Nearly 45 per cent said they blurt out secrets just to get it off their chests and then most of them feel guilty.

More than half blamed alcohol for blurting out the secrets.

“It is official – women can’t keep secrets,” a Daily quoted. Michael Cox,UK director of Wines of Chile,which commissioned the research,as saying.

“What we didn’t bank on was how quickly these are passed on. Every Brit who has confided in a friend should be worried,” he added.

Women hear at least three nuggets of gossip a week – about sex,affairs,or how much ­so-and-so really spent on that handbag.