PEOPLE in Liverpool are the nosiest in Britain with three quarters saying they would snoop in someone else’s diary, a poll has found.

A huge 78 per cent of people in the city wouldn’t be able to resist reading, while people in Surrey and Essex were the most honest, with only 22 per cent likely to take a peek.

Other inquisitive destinations include Somerset where three quarters would snoop and Leicestershire where 72 per cent would read a diary.

Brits have become a nosey nation with nearly half of us confessing that given the opportunity, we would read the private thoughts of friends, family and loved ones.

One in ten said they would confront the person if they read something they didn’t like and a fifth have perused someone else’s diary.

Asked which celebrity diary they would most like to devour, The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, came out tops at 58 per cent, followed by former US President Donald Trump (23 per cent) and Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 18 per cent.

The research was carried out to mark Love Your Diary Day which takes place for the first time on November 23rd.

The day was created by marketing expert Janet Murray to celebrate the ways we use diaries and journals to capture our thoughts and feelings.

Janet explained: “With social media, logging every moment of our lives is now second nature but it was refreshing that the research found a lot of love for the traditional diary.

“As a nation, we’re fascinated by diaries and what goes on in other people’s lives – shown in the huge popularity of Bridget Jones’ and Adrian Mole’s Diaries.

“The revelations people had read ranged from being people catty about workmates to confessing to threesomes.”

On YouTube, a video named ‘I just bought a total stranger’s diary’ has been viewed 6.5 million times since it launched in 2017.

There’s even ‘diary hunters’ who scour charity shops and eBay to collect diaries written by complete strangers and the poll found a third of us still use paper diaries.

Millennials aged 25-34 were most likely to read a diary, with 54 saying they wouldn’t be able to resist, along with half of people aged 18-24.

People aged from 55 to 64 were most likely to have done the deed with a quarter confessing to reading a diary.

Merseyside came runner up in the list of places where people HAD read a diary too, with 44 per cent admitting to it.

Top was Shropshire at 50 per cent and third was Northumberland at 43 per cent.

The group most likely to take umbrage were those aged 25-34 with 14 per cent saying they’d confront the person who had written about them along with 45 per cent of women and 33 per cent of men.

Janet, who has produced a Media Diary and Planner for small businesses since 2017, added: “Diaries are such an intimate way for us to express our feelings so it was quite shocking to see how many people would break that trust and read them.

“We may have a reputation for being polite and bumbling, but it turns out if we can get away with it, we can be quite sneaky too.”