In tonight’s episode, Emmerdale’s April Windsor, portrayed by Amelia Flanagan, revealed the identity of her baby’s father – but is she being truthful?
, played by Mark Charnock, listened as his daughter confessed why she had run away from home and announced that she wouldn’t be returning to the village.
Earlier this week, viewers watched as April gave birth in a gym toilet, only to discover her baby was stillborn.
She was later found on a park bench by a passerby and rushed to hospital, where she finally disclosed the identity of the baby’s father.
So, who is the father of April Windsor’s baby and is she leaving the ITV soap?
Marlon asked his daughter to come home with him (Image: ITV)
April informed her dad that the father was a “random” boy she met at a party, reports Leeds Live.
When Marlon tried to dig deeper into the identity of the boy, asking if he was part of the reason she left and if they were still in contact, April confirmed: “He was just a random lad that I met at a party I didn’t even know his name, dad.”
As Marlon prepared to leave the room, April asked about her baby, saying: “What happened to my baby? I know it was dead. It wasn’t breathing.”
Marlon realised his daughter deliberately went missing (Image: ITV)
“The police took it somewhere,” Marlon explained, telling his daughter that she had gone into labour much earlier than expected.
In an emotional moment on the show, April tearfully confessed: “I can’t come home. Everyone will know what I did and that I left my baby in a toilet.”
After Marlon tried to bargain with his daughter, she firmly told him she would not return to the village with him.
She said defiantly: “I am not coming home, Dad.”
Fans have been spinning their own webs of curiosity around April’s predicament despite apparent hints at the father’s identity.
Joe Tate and Noah Dingle in the Woolpack pub (Image: ITV)
On social media, speculation is rife, with one fan postulating on Facebook: “Who got April pregnant? I have a good idea who it could be, and it will be someone no one can guess. Elliott (Kelly and Jimmy’s son).”
“Josh Cope, Samson ‘s friend, the bad lad,” chimed in another, while a third suggested: “I thought him too or whoever this Avery person is who blocked her.”
Meanwhile, another soap enthusiast suspects Noah Dingle (played by Jack Downham) might be the mysterious father, a theory echoed by many others.
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