It can break embarrassing stories and then galvanise public support.

Since presidential relatives are such a rich source of embarrassing stories, we asked the journalists to predict which ones would make the most interesting news.

If you thought embarrassing stories from friends arebest saved for retirement events, John will change your mind.

In speeches, I'm not allowed to tell embarrassing stories about her.

The most embarrassing story of my whole life was in Tunis.

Barney meets all of them at the bar, and only tells his story once everyone else agrees to tell their embarrassing stories.

"Now come back into the kitchen before your tea gets cold, and you can tell us some more embarrassing stories about Stevie."

"Why is it that every embarrassing story about a human male in his youth starts with the phrase, 'There was this woman'?"

My friends would always joke that it was never any fun telling embarrassing stories about me, because I'd usually told them to people already.

He probably came out so that the tabloid newspapers could not publish what they thought were embarrassing stories about him.