"She's beautiful and healthy, and that's what is important"

‘It was a Caesarean, and I was there, so I saw her being lifted out. I’m very glad I was, otherwise I’d have been saying: “What mistake has been made here?” ‘

It was the hair that initially confused him. ‘Obviously she looked very light, but black babies are often much lighter skinned at birth. it’s only over weeks and months that they get darker. But the hair was a shock from the off. Then the eyes. I have never seen such blue.’…

Although Ben says he is ‘100 per cent sure’ the child is his, he says he is still considering a DNA test.

‘I do think I will probably have a DNA test. Not to prove anything to me – I know my wife and I trust her 100 per cent – but to make a point to other people.’