Nathan and Andrew

Nathan (Paul Nicholls, left) is a successful interior designer who lives with his long-term partner Andrew (Andrew Buckley) in their large modern apartment in the centre of Leeds. Andrew and Nathan are very much in love and have wanted to start a family together for a while. They thought about adopting, but decided to go with a surrogate instead, so one of them could be the biological father and their baby would be truly theirs.

They were over the moon when Shelly, their cleaner’s daughter, agreed to carry their child when they said they’d pay her £10k. 

Andrew is very excited to become a father and has taken as much paternity leave as possible from his job as a primary school teacher. As the baby’s due date comes close, he’s busy rushing around trying to get everything ready and buying all the provisions they need for the arrival of their son. He wants constant updates from Shelly and he’s increasingly worried that something will go wrong and she’ll decide to keep the baby.

Nathan is more practical and level-headed. He tries to keep Andrew calm and reassure him that everything will be ok, while also trying to make sure that Shelly is happy as she prepares to delivery her amazing ‘gift’ to them.