go for revenge. Mandy discovers she is pregnant and tells Darren who is pleased. Mandy supports Darren during the custody hearing, but Nancy finds a worried Mandy in the toilet when she is bleeding. At the hospital, Mandy and Nancy have a heart-to-heart and Nancy decides to end her revenge plan. The doctor tells them that her baby has spina bifida. The next day, Nancy tells Mandy that she needs to tell Darren. Darren continues to support Mandy through her pregnancy, but Mandy starts to doubt whether Darren is the baby's father as the dates do not add up. When Oliver tells Mandy that a relative of Luke's once had spina bifida, Mandy visits Luke in prison and tells him that he might be the father. Mandy keeps the suspicion a secret from Darren, until after the birth of DJ, she is forced to reveal that Darren may not be the father. A DNA test is taken and Oliver revealed Darren as the father but unknown to the pair, Oliver lied about the DNA tests and Luke was the father but he kept it secret for five months. Luke is released from prison and stays with Mandy and Darren. Mandy is upset to find out that Luke and Cindy had slept together and orders one of them to leave. Luke decides to leave and Darren becomes jealous that Mandy still has feelings for Luke, but she denies this. After regretfully sleeping with Nancy, Darren develops depression and him and Nancy file for divorce. He eventually tells Mandy who is extremely supportive. Darren feels like everyone is starting to treat him differently so he talks to his therapist, he then speaks up and starts to slowly return to his normal self with Mandy's support. In January 2022 Mandy leaves the village with DJ to start a new life in LA. Casting and creation Sarah Jayne Dunn was cast in 1996 as Mandy, a member of the Richardson family. Dunn told K9 magazine that she began her role aged fourteen and got an audition for the role through her agent. Once she had won the role her "contract just kept getting renewed". Initially Dunn was only contracted to appear in "a handful of episodes" but due to her performance impressing producers her contract was renewed. In May 2006 it was reported that Dunn had decided to leave the serial. This was later