Star of The Family Next Door opens up about her own family’s phantom pooer, a mortifying run-in with Pete Murray, and her obsession with true crime
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When was the last time you solved a mystery?
Oh, I’m going big with this answer: the mystery of the phantom pooer. Someone in my family does poos in the toilet and doesn’t flush them. They’ve all been blaming each other. [Palmer has four children and a stepson.]
It got to the point where I really thought it was my husband, because it was in our toilet. So I actually set up a situation where I pretended the other toilet was blocked and they couldn’t use it, and I stalked my children after each poo. One time I didn’t hear a flush and they ran out to play so I figured out who the phantom pooer was. I won’t out which one of my children it was, but it’s one of them. I keep saying, “It’s not that hard! You do a poo, you press the flush!”
