John Edwards admits to having an affair

John Edwards, the Democrats' 2004 vice-presidential candidate and a potential Cabinet member for Barack Obama, tonight admitted that he had consistently lied about having an affair. Mr Edwards had been dogged by internet gossip, fuelled by anonymously sourced stories in the supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer, that he had an affair last year with Rielle Hunter, a film-maker, while running for president. It was also rumoured that he had fathered an illegitimate child in the relationship, an allegation he continued to deny in an interview with ABC News. In the interview Edwards confesses that he did have an affair with 44-year old Ms Hunter, but said that he did not love her. Edwards said he knew he was not the father of Ms Hunter's child based on timing of the baby's birth but had not taken a parternity test. A former... [read full story]