‘Gilmore Girls’ Costume Supervisor Says She Knows the Father of Rory’s Baby: Quotes From Alexis Bledel and More Cast Members

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'Gilmore Girls' Costume Supervisor Says She Knows the Father of Rory's Baby: Quotes From Alexis Bledel and More Cast Members

Stars Hollow’s greatest mystery solved? Gilmore Girls costume supervisor Valerie Campbell claimed to share new insight into the father of Rory Gilmore’s baby after Alexis Bledel’s character’s pregnancy was revealed as a bombshell cliffhanger in the finale of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. “Let’s do the math. In ‘Winter,’ she is sleeping with Paul (Jack Carpenter). Maybe, maybe not. She might have forgotten to do it,” Campbell began via TikTok, joking about the story line that Rory “forgot” about her beau throughout the four-episode series. The costumer then referenced Rory’s offscreen hookup with a man dressed as a Star Wars character during the second episode. “‘Spring,' she sleeps with the Wookiee — once. If it was the Wookiee, she would definitely be showing and we never gave her a pregnancy belly. That is very, very important. We never gave her one. We were never instructed to give her one,” she said. Campbell concluded that “the only obvious choice" is Logan (Matt Czuchry), Rory’s college boyfriend with whom she had an ongoing affair in revival. [jwplayer jT7qAo0U-zhNYySv2] “[Creator] Amy [Sherman-Palladino] herself said, ‘Why are people even questioning who the father is?’” she continued. "It was supposed to be very, very, very, very, very obvious." While Bledel has stayed fairly mum on the fan chatter about the story line, Czuchry, for his part, confirmed to Us Weekly that he inquired for answers. “Amy and [executive producer] Dan [Palladino], they told me who the father of the baby was, and they said, ‘Yeah, you can tell whoever you want.’ And I never have because one, that’s for them to say. Ultimately this is Amy and Dan’s show and it’s Lauren [Graham’s] show and it’s Alexis’ show,” he told Us Weekly exclusively in 2021. “It’s not mine. And so, for me, it doesn’t feel like the right place to say who it may or may not be. Also, if we do come back, they may change their minds. So it could become somebody else. Those are the reasons why I’ve never said what they told me on set.” Gilmore Girls originally aired for seven seasons from 2000 to 2007 and returned for four lengthy Netflix episodes in 2016. In light of Campbell's viral TikTok, scroll through for more from the cast of Gilmore Girls on Rory’s baby daddy:

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'Gilmore Girls' Costume Supervisor Says She Knows the Father of Rory's Baby: Quotes From Alexis Bledel and More Cast Members

Stars Hollow’s greatest mystery solved? Gilmore Girls costume supervisor Valerie Campbell claimed to share new insight into the father of Rory Gilmore’s baby after Alexis Bledel’s character’s pregnancy was revealed as a bombshell cliffhanger in the finale of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. “Let’s do the math. In ‘Winter,’ she is sleeping with Paul (Jack Carpenter). Maybe, maybe not. She might have forgotten to do it,” Campbell began via TikTok, joking about the story line that Rory “forgot” about her beau throughout the four-episode series. The costumer then referenced Rory’s offscreen hookup with a man dressed as a Star Wars character during the second episode. “‘Spring,' she sleeps with the Wookiee — once. If it was the Wookiee, she would definitely be showing and we never gave her a pregnancy belly. That is very, very important. We never gave her one. We were never instructed to give her one,” she said. Campbell concluded that “the only obvious choice" is Logan (Matt Czuchry), Rory’s college boyfriend with whom she had an ongoing affair in revival. [jwplayer jT7qAo0U-zhNYySv2] “[Creator] Amy [Sherman-Palladino] herself said, ‘Why are people even questioning who the father is?’” she continued. "It was supposed to be very, very, very, very, very obvious." While Bledel has stayed fairly mum on the fan chatter about the story line, Czuchry, for his part, confirmed to Us Weekly that he inquired for answers. “Amy and [executive producer] Dan [Palladino], they told me who the father of the baby was, and they said, ‘Yeah, you can tell whoever you want.’ And I never have because one, that’s for them to say. Ultimately this is Amy and Dan’s show and it’s Lauren [Graham’s] show and it’s Alexis’ show,” he told Us Weekly exclusively in 2021. “It’s not mine. And so, for me, it doesn’t feel like the right place to say who it may or may not be. Also, if we do come back, they may change their minds. So it could become somebody else. Those are the reasons why I’ve never said what they told me on set.” Gilmore Girls originally aired for seven seasons from 2000 to 2007 and returned for four lengthy Netflix episodes in 2016. In light of Campbell's viral TikTok, scroll through for more from the cast of Gilmore Girls on Rory’s baby daddy:

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Matt Czuchry

“If I was writing it, he would be with Rory,” the Resident actor told Us in January 2021 after confirming he knows who the father of the baby is. “I think that Logan was a character who was pushed in a certain direction because of his family, that he didn’t want to be in that direction. He wanted to follow his heart and his love, which was Rory, but when he was younger, he didn’t really have the strength to do that. That being said, he also asked Rory [to marry him] and was going to defy his family. But Rory, if people remember, kind of said no, it wasn’t the right time. … He would do anything for her, including giving up the whole family business.”

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Milo Ventimiglia

The This Is Us star, who played Rory's bad boy boyfriend Jess and made appearances on the revival, told Us that it’s “amazing” that Czuchry has the answer.

“They never told me. You know what, though, I didn’t ask. And I feel like I’ve got, I still have a really, really, really, really close relationship with Amy and Dan. And I feel like if I asked, they would tell me,” he said in March 2021. “Maybe I’ll call Mattie and ask him like, ‘Hey, man, so who’s kiddo was it?’ Cause like, it wasn’t Jess. That was the only thing I knew. I knew it wasn’t Jess’ baby. I’m positive it wasn’t Jess’ baby.”

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Scott Patterson

The actor behind Luke pitched new episodes under the notion that Logan is the dad. “If it’s Logan or whatever, then, you know, he flips out and goes away. History repeats itself a la Christopher (David Sutcliffe) and Lorelai,” he told Us in May 2021. “And then she goes off to pursue a huge opportunity in Europe for her writing and dumps the baby in our lap. And we get to raise the kid a little bit while she’s off pursuing that and she comes back."

While he thinks it’s likely Logan, the “I Am All In” podcast host is rooting for his character’s nephew, Jess.

“He’s my nephew! I love the kid, you know, he’s blood. I like Milo a lot. Not that I don’t like Jared [Padalecki], who played Rory's first boyfriend, Dean] or Matt, it’s just, I worked with him a lot and I always enjoyed it,” Patterson said. “I was like a combo of Dean and Jess when I was growing up. I was soulful and poetic, but I also had that sort of edgy kind of Kerouac thing.”

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Lauren Graham

“Amy hasn’t told me any of this, but if I had to guess, I think Logan is the father even though it could also be fun if it’s the Wookiee,” the actress joked in her November 2022 book, Have I Told You This Already?. “But no matter who the father is, I think the baby is a girl whose name is another permutation of Lorelai; I’m going to go with Lola."

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Alexis Bledel

“I honestly haven’t gone down that path of imagining it,” Bledel told Variety in 2017. “It all lives in Amy’s imagination. She has a very clear vision and always has and we haven’t had input as to the stories and the characters on the show very much. On A Year in the Life, we did a little more than the original run of the show, but it really is all Amy.”