I was wondering if the regular posters here had speculated that Jack might be Gwen's father. It seemed like they were hinting at that today.
If Jack is the father, then the mother might be a woman named Kristina. She was Victor's pseudo-niece/goddaughter from Europe. Jack was sleeping with her when he was engaged to Melissa, Maggie's daughter. Actually, they had sex in the church dressing room a half an hour before Jack and Melissa's wedding was supposed to happen. (Jack was really bad back then).
With any other writer I would assume that they would just make up another woman from when Jack was off camera and he and Jen were divorced. But Ron Carlivati loves to show that he knows his shows' history, even bringing up obscure characters from the past. When he was at OLTL he regularly did this. And, of course, he famously destroyed Genie Francis' Diana Colville with that insane story, although he did understand the importance of having her call him "Roman" when they first saw each other.
Another possibility is that Peter Blake is her father. When Matt and Missy first returned in 2001, after a long absence, they essentially wrote that whole era out of the show's history. It was never mentioned--not once. The closest they came to even alluding to it was when Jen realized the truth about who Colin Murphy really was. Headwriters Peter Brash and Paula Cwigly clearly hated Ken Corday's guidelines about that era, and took the opportunity to have Jen make a cryptic statement about how she found the wrong guy on purpose then say "you would think the past would have taught me something."
In recent years there seem to have been some fleeting mentions of Peter. I haven't watched the show regularly for a while now, but that is what I have gathered. So I guess the faux era, as J&J fans used to call it, is part of the show's cannon again. Peter could be brought back, provided the role is recast with a new actor. Obviously, Missy Reeves and Jason Brooks will never work together again.
Making Peter Blake her father would be genius. This is my thought:
After leaving Salem, Peter hooked up with someone, possibly a Jenn lookalike or something just for kicks that he treated like crap. She ended up pregnant and maybe dies in labor, leaving him Gwen. Hearing that J & J are reunited, he plots his revenge by telling Gwen that Jennifer is her real mother and that she can't be with them because of Jack and Abigail. Over the years, he plants these seeds in her head until he determines she's ready to be his tool to exact revenge, like while was in the coma after getting married. Gwen comes to town to eliminate Abigail so she can be with her "mother". Jack gets in the way and so she tried to eliminate him, too. Peter has either truly died or faked his death so he can watch his daughter do his dirty work. The truth does come out and she bonds with Kristen and Stefan.
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Making Peter Blake her father would be genius. This is my thought:
After leaving Salem, Peter hooked up with someone, possibly a Jenn lookalike or something just for kicks that he treated like crap. She ended up pregnant and maybe dies in labor, leaving him Gwen. Hearing that J & J are reunited, he plots his revenge by telling Gwen that Jennifer is her real mother and that she can't be with them because of Jack and Abigail. Over the years, he plants these seeds in her head until he determines she's ready to be his tool to exact revenge, like while was in the coma after getting married. Gwen comes to town to eliminate Abigail so she can be with her "mother". Jack gets in the way and so she tried to eliminate him, too. Peter has either truly died or faked his death so he can watch his daughter do his dirty work. The truth does come out and she bonds with Kristen and Stefan.