Overview

• Charity Dingle is confirmed pregnant after agreeing to be Sarah’s surrogate, but a recent liaison with Ross Barton has created serious paternity doubts.
• Upcoming episodes feature an early ultrasound that Charity faces on her own, heightening her fear that the baby may not belong to Sarah and Jacob.
• Ross has cottoned on to the timing and suspects he could be the father, increasing the risk that Charity’s deception will surface.
• Separately, Mackenzie Boyd is revealed to be alive and being held by John Sugden, with the hostage storyline returning to screen this week.
• Emma Atkins calls the lie an “ultimate betrayal” and hints a reckoning is close as Charity struggles to keep up a cheerful front.