No, I don't want it to be him either! It would make a good story if he got a load of grief and it wasn't him in the end! On the other hand, he DID have sex with Laura (unless her memory is playing tricks and he can't remember it at all) so basically he does deserve some grief. But Laura is such a bully - I hate the thought that Ian's escaped but now she's found another victim.

Nor me. Wouldn't you wonder what had happened to your knickers?

yes the baby is paul Truemans!!!!

Is this a guess? Or how do you know?!

where does it say that it's paul's baby??

i hope it is - and if everyone thinks that it's gary's until the baby is born. classic.

Now Ian has spilled the beans about Gary being the father.... If i was Gary, i'll smack Ian right in his smug face.

Blackmail is a evil thing. You go gary, give him a slap. lol

Yes - the lesson is that you should never give in to blackmail. He's such a weasel that he was bound to tell anyway. What a prat Gary was to go along with it - AND to lose his holiday money!

But Ian doesnt know Laura is at the B&B does he?

Ooh and didnt Janine just rub her nose in it...

Didn't he see her go in? I thought he did. Janine's a cow - I'm amazed she's still breathing!

I don't think Gary's the sperm donor either. He's enough of a fool to forget that he didn't actually give her one & she's desperate enough to latch onto any ray of hope. Here's some blatantly circumstantial evidence and speculation:

The climax has been reached too soon (groan!) while EE normally drags out & complicates big storylines - sniff carefully and you may smell red herring!

Ric-kay & Paul are cast as ladies' men and must be in with a chance of the booby prize.

Gus was still mooning and moping about Sonia at the time of conception (get down Specsavers mate!). Sonia will need a broad shoulder to dribble saliva on and that will be Gus' job.

EE built most of 2002's script around the Slaters. 11 million will die of boredom with a Slater 2003!

Pain is good: not nearly enough misery yet, another life must be destroyed!

SquareEye's starting price: 50-50 Paul Trueman / Ian Beale. After all, if you can't have the interracial baby why not torture Squealer some more, he deserves it!

Yes - Who is the Father could have gone on as long as Who Shot Phil. There is a shock in store for us! Weren't Gary and Lynne trying for a baby? Maybe he'll find out he has a low sperm count or something.

LOL It would be SO brilliant if she had a DNA test after it was born and the nasty little bugger (ie Ian) WAS the father after all!

I heard that Lynn's already preggers and the shock of finding out about Laura causes her to lose her baby.

I'd like to think that Gary wasn't the father, but he has admitted to having sex with Laura. If Paul Trueman was in the running, surely it would have been a lot easier for Laura to go to the B&B and get help from him, rather than go to a married man and move in with him and his wife and her family?

That is EXACTLY what I think is going to happen

You think may be they got his details mixed up with someone else whose sperm count was 0? Thats so damn typical of soaps....

Squealer's the long shot, Dr Dense did indeed make a big play about the zero swimmers in his sample but this soap is set in a parallel universe East End (little crime, no asylum chaos, doc appointment in less than 3 months).

Why didn't she go to Paul Trueman? She can't remember shagging him! I'll bet a bottle of EstuaryMeister at the bar in the Vic that Paul is the father!

The baby can't be Gary's as you can't get pregnant if you have sex standing up.

I am right aren't I, please tell me I'm right

How do you know they were standing up. lol

Or was there a late night episode on bbcchoice, that i didn't know of. lol

ive always thought that too. but why? is there some sort of biological explanation for it?

I think its to do with gravity, you know what goes up must come down. But I wouldnt rely on it as a form of contreception

Some fish swim upstream when they're spawning. Here endeth the Biology Lesson.

If the baby is gary's then I pity it...with his brains and her looks...ughhh! and with her brains and his looks!?! ughhhhh!

Agree. Its the most plausable solution and one which would make a good story.

I recall Laura flitting more with Paul than either Gary or Ricky.

We will soon see when the baby pops out black.

ok, i know im 2 - 3years late askin this question but - who was the father of Sonia's baby? i was away at the time when she had the baby and didnt watch it for ages. it wasnt jamie's was it? so who's was it????

You'll love this Spanks......Its Martin Fowler