Yahoo News EastEnders fans have theories on who Jay's dad is...
Tonight's (August 21) episode of EastEnders was a two-hander between Phil Mitchell and Jay Brown, with Phil explaining that Jay's dad isn't actually Jase Dyer like everyone believed, but a homeless guy who died in a fire Phil started all the way back in a 1994 episode.
While viewers, similarly to Jay, pondered over this apparent retconning of events, the episode's final scene showed Phil telling a mystery person on the phone that everything he told Jay was in fact... a lie!
Naturally, this has led to viewers coming up with theories on who the person on the phone is, who Jay's dad really is, and what the meaning of life is (maybe not the last one).
A lot of fans believe Max is involved somehow, seeing as how everything seems to be leading back to him nowadays. But could his potential involvement be more personal?
I feel that Phil is working with Max somehow, probably wrong, but Weyland and Co are after most of Walford's businesses. #EastEnders
- Tom Gardiner 🌎🌟 (@TomGardinerUK) August 21, 2017
Max has actually been #DrEvil all along, only explanation for his recent criminal mastermindness #EastEnders 🙄 pic.twitter.com/KOYcHUtYZt
- Scotland (@CarronMunro) August 21, 2017
What if Phil is working for Max as part of his revenge storyline I don't know how that would make sense but it's just a 💭 #EastEnders
- Cerys Emily ♡ (@SamSmithFan_XX) August 21, 2017
#eastenders perhaps it was Phil talking about Jay to Max. They're both ginger...
- Kyle Rickards (@KyleRickards) August 21, 2017
I reckon it must be Max on the phone to Phil #EastEnders
- Alison G (@alig1972) August 21, 2017
Other viewers had... other theories:
I'll call it now, Bianca is Jay's mum or Max is his dad #gingerpride #eastenders
- Chineapple Punk (@Chineapple_Punk) August 21, 2017
My mum and dad thinks phill is either the father or grandfather of Jay... What you reckon?? #eastenders
- Holly'WHU'parsons (@hollyparsons2) August 21, 2017
#EastEnders Was it Jays Dad on the phone whose blackmailing Phil coz he was wrongly identified? Or it was Grant?
- Simone (@simonebascombe) August 21, 2017
Jase is dead. Tramp is dead. Evie is dead. So either Karen did a Kathy & faked her cancer or Phil's talking to Bert. #eastenders
- Leroy (@ruddydickens) August 21, 2017
Digital Spy recently caught up with Jamie Borthwick, who plays Jay, to get his opinion on why he thinks Phil is lying to him, and where the storyline could go from here.
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