What is someone who leaks a surprise called?

Question

What is someone whose tendency/act is to leak the surprise called?

Answer 1

Some more generic terms for someone who talks too much or indiscreetly: prattler, blabbermouth, motormouth, bigmouth.

If it's someone who can't act the part, I would simply say a bad actor or, if trying to be humorous, a person with limited thespian talents.

Answer 2

If they did it on purpose they could be called a spoilsport or a party pooper (slang).

Answer 3

A blabbermouth. While not specifically about them blowing the surprise, I'd also call them a jerk or a party-pooper.

Answer 4

You could label someone a dampener and consider it appropriate in this context, although some might argue otherwise.

A known figure of speech goes something like this, from The Free Dictionary:

Put a damper on something

Fig. to have a dulling or numbing influence on something. The bad news really put a damper on everything. The rainy weather put a damper on our picnic.

I personally think this could be applied to 'dampening a surprise', and further, the person committing such an act deemed 'a dampener'.

Answer 5

A spoiler? Or maybe somebody who throws a spanner in the works?

If someone throws a spanner in the works, they prevent something happening smoothly in the way that it was planned, by causing a problem or difficulty.