ross was the father of rachel's baby in friends.
ross was the father of rachel's baby in friends.
in friends who is the father of rachel's baby?
ross
jai tells charity that he wants children but she does not, due to two difficult pregnancies so she suggests jai adopt her son, noah (jack downham). when he learns that nikhil and his girlfriend are expecting a baby, jai and charity argue and he goes to the factory and gets drunk. when rachel breckle (gemma oaten) arrives, jai persuades her to have a drink with him and they end up sleeping together. rachel later finds that she is pregnant and, refusing to be anyone's dirty little secret, demands that jai tell charity. jai refuses and offers rachel an expensive flat away from the village but she refuses so he buys a house in the village for her and the baby, telling charity that rachel will be their tenant. rachel and charity argue and rachel goes into labour. jai takes rachel's boyfriend, sam dingle (james hooton), to the hospital and tries to find out how she and the baby are. he is relieved to learn the baby has been born safely and rachel lets him see his son but will not allow him to visit regularly, worried that charity will find out. jai employs rachel to clean holdgate farm, allowing him to have contact with archie. when charity sees jai with archie, she realizes that he is archie's father and confronts him but rishi claims that he is archie's father. soon afterwards, jai learns charity had a one-night stand with declan. after arguing briefly, jai and charity reconcile but charity realizes that rishi lied and ends their marriage. charity smashes up jai's car with a jcb digger and he convinces charity to meet him at the lake where she declared her love for him, but she throws her wedding ring onto the frozen lake. while trying to retrieve it, jai falls into the water when the ice breaks. charity calls an ambulance so jai gives charity divorce papers, telling her he wants to do it as easily as possible, annoying her that he is unaffected by her actions. when he later finds her in bed with ross barton (michael parr), he initially attacks him but refuses to play charity's game. charity insists on organizing archie's first birthday but struggles to cope and demands that he choose - her or archie. jai initially chooses charity and noah, even buying her an eternity ring but realizes that he can't break off contact with his son so he and charity separate. she and noah move in with debbie and charity refuses to let him see noah, trying to hurt him. jai sees archie regularly until rachel tells the police that she started the fire at home farm and leaves the area, taking archie with her. he hopes to gain custody but rachel does not show for her trial. he persuades sam to help him find rachel but the dingles worry that sam is neglecting his son. charity confronts jai and he admits that he only cares about getting archie back so charity records the conversation and plays it to sam, who realizes that he was being used and refuses to have anything to do with him. jai sacks the solicitor he hired to search for archie before a man named mark (chris lindon), approaches him after seeing the appeal jai set up - claiming to know where rachel and archie are. jai is skeptical until mark shows him a picture of rachel on his phone. they agree to work together, providing that jai pays mark £10,000. he leads them to rachel's old estate, claiming she is living there and he has seen her regularly. jai believes him but mark demands another £10,000, fearing that he will be attacked for talking to a stranger. jai complies and they go to the estate together but mark insists he wait in the car and disappears with the cash. however, charity and declan trail jai and mark, terrified their crime will be exposed. after targeting mark, they threaten him but mark admits he hasn't seen rachel for years and agrees to keep his mouth shut. he flees, leaving charity and declan to cover their tracks and disappear. jai is devastated when he realizes he has been played, as he trusted mark. he spends an evening drinking before declan's sister, megan (gaynor faye), drops by. after confiding in one another, they kiss. the next morning, they regret their actions and decide it meant nothing but later become a couple.
jai sharma
rachel arrived in beckindale in 1988 with her mother kate and brother mark after her parents divorced. her mother began a feud with joe sugden in late 1988 after he shot and killed her dog because it was bothering his sheep. however, in early 1989, joe and kate fell in love and were married in april that year and rachel was more accepting of her mother's new relationship unlike her brother mark who wanted their parents to reconcile. rachel began an affair with married man pete whiteley on her 18th birthday. he ended it when his wife, lynn, became pregnant and they moved away from the village. pete later returned and began seeing rachel again until he was accidentally run over and killed by rachel's mother, kate. lynn later got her revenge on rachel by embarking on a relationship with rachel's former stepfather, joe. on 30 december 1993, a plane exploded over beckindale, killing rachel's brother, mark. the disaster also left chris tate in a wheelchair. rachel then began giving chris swimming lessons and they embarked an affair. chris's wife kathy saw them kissing on their third wedding anniversary and attacked rachel, banging her head against a wall. in december 1994, rachel discovered that she was two months pregnant with chris's baby and in june 1995, she gave birth to their son, joseph mark tate, on the same day her former stepfather joe sugden died, naming her son in his honour. kathy was present when rachel went into labour and stayed with her on the journey to the hospital as chris was nowhere to be found. this led to the two women becoming best friends and rachel named kathy as joseph's godmother. on 7 december 1995, rachel and chris got married with jack sugden and his wife, sarah, as witnesses. chris wanted them to have another child and went for fertility treatment but rachel secretly went on the pill. chris and rachel split up after chris betrayed rachel by stealing private information from her work file and rachel was granted custody of joseph. in july 1997, rachel received news that her mother kate had died of a brain haemorrhage. rachel then embarked on an affair with jack sugden after he comforted her and attended the funeral with her for support. this was her third affair with a married man. however, jack had no intention of breaking up his marriage and returned to his wife, sarah.
rachel hughes