TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Lily Slater finally revealed who fathered her unborn baby.
The young girl failed to convince EastEnders viewers as they firmly believe she’s covering for someone.
Lily Slater finally revealed who the father of her baby was
She admitted it was Ricky Jr.
Jean managed to convince her to open up
Stacey Slater (portrayed by Lacey Turner) finally got the truth out of her young daughter – or did she?
After finding out the preteen was pregnant on New Year’s Day, the food truck owner was desperate to know if Lily had been sexually abused by an older man.
Social services and the police were also adamant on getting to the bottom of Lily’s shocking pregnancy as she is too young to consent according to British law.
Stacey grew more suspicious when she spotted Lily waving at Ricky Mitchell, Jack Branning’s son, from her bedroom window and confronted her.
In emotional scenes aired on BBC One last night, Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) finally managed to push her granddaughter to ease Stacey’s mind and tell her who her baby daddy was.
Lily was reduced to floods of tears as she told her mother she had only been intimate with Ricky Jr. once and that he wasn’t her boyfriend.
But when she insisted he should never know about her pregnancy, soap fans sceptical.
Viewers believe Lily was lying to Stacey and Jean, deliberately going along with her mother to stop her from asking questions.
“Anyone else NOT convinced that Ricky Jr is in fact the father after that lacklustre confession from Lily?”, one of them penned on Twitter.
“Do we believe Lily when she said Ricky Jnr is the dad? She seemed to shake and nod her head”, another echoed.
A third threw another name into the mix: “I don’t think Ricky Jr is Lily’s baby daddy… I think judging by Lily looking out of the window that it is Nugget.”
“Don’t believe Lily at all, she’s covering for someone else. Why say he must never know?”, a fourth viewer questioned.
“I don’t think lily was telling truth re: father of baby. i think she’s just getting Stacey off her back”, a soap fan commented while another agreed: “This is EastEnders so, Lily saying the father is Ricky.. Means it’s definitely not Ricky, right?”
Both Ricky and Nugget Gulati were first suspected of being the father of Lily’s baby, along with Denzel Danes.
However, a handful of viewers believed a dark twist could be in the works with Freddie Slater to be revealed as the real father.
Were they wrong all along?
EastEnders airs from Monday to Thursday at 7.30pm on BBC One.
Stacey has been desperate to know who fathered Lily’s baby
But is Lily telling the truth?
