The Scottish Mail on Sunday

WILL cheating Demelza go all the way? DARE Elizabeth tell George who’s the daddy? And what IS the foot-fetish vicar up to now? The Poldark f inale tonight is the steamiest yet. So... Hold on to your tricorn!

- by Chris Hastings

WHO’S the daddy?’ was the question on everyone’s lips as the latest – and steamiest – season of Poldark began. But soon enough we learned that Elizabeth Warleggan had borne the child of her former lover Ross.

Yet as viewers brace themselves for tonight’s unmissable finale, it seems the last person in Cornwall to be told the secret about baby Valentine’s paternity is Elizabeth’s husband George – Ross’s sworn enemy.

Whether she’ll confess her devastatin­g betrayal to George is just one of the burning questions that has set up a cliffhange­r episode as dramatic as the Cornish coastline.

With the future of Ross and Demelza’s marriage at stake, there is also much to ponder about the memorable new characters introduced in season three, among them Demelza’s beefcake brothers Drake and Sam Carne, Elizabeth’s kind-hearted cousin Morwenna and the odious Reverend Osborne Whitworth with his kinky foot fetish.

While the bloodshed in revolution­ary France has cast a long shadow over events, it has been the stories of love, rivalry and illicit sex closer to home that have kept viewers hooked.

But amid all the rivalry and scandal there was also heartbreak with the death of popular character Aunt Agatha played by Caroline Blakiston.

The Mail on Sunday has seen tonight’s action-packed episode and here provides a tantalisin­g glimpse of what viewers can expect.

Fans can be rest assured we have not given away any of the plotlines or key developmen­ts – you’ll have to tune in yourself to find out whether there’ll be a glimpse of heart-throb Aidan Turner’s six-pack…

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