LIGHTNING hat-trick star Gabriel Agbonlahor has scored ANOTHER astonishing treble-cheating on THREE lovers at once and getting them ALL pregnant.

After kicking off the football season smashing three goals in seven minutes we reveal the randy Aston Villa striker is just as nifty OFF the pitch-secretly playing keepy- uppy with his three-strong team of beauties.

But the England hopeful was stunned when they ALL told him, one after another, they were expecting.

Amazingly, two of the girls had abortions and ditched the Villa villain -then went BACK to the rat and bedded him AGAIN.

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But the third went through to full-time, delivered 21-year-old Gabby a son in June and now lives in one of his houses. And just so there's no argument she named the baby Gabriel Agbonlahor Junior!

A friend of the footballer, tipped for a glittering England career after being picked twice for the squad, said: "Gabby's so arrogant he thought by telling the girls a string of lies he could keep all his balls in the air at once, and nobody would find out the truth. But mother nature finally blew the whistle."

The tangle began with GIRLFRIEND No 1, his teenage sweetheart Sophie Smith. She was at school with Gabby in Birmingham, and started dating him in 2003 when he was an unknown 17-year-old in Villa's youth squad.

The friend told us: "She was head over heels in love and moved in with Gabby at his home in Sutton Coldfield.

"She says he was pretty average in bed and very selfish as a lover, a real 'wham bam, thank-you ma'am' bloke who only knew one position and fell asleep immediately afterwards.

"But even so, she was smitten and thought she was in an exclusive relationship with him."

In fact, just a year after moving Sophie in, Gabby met GIRLFRIEND No 2 Elizabeth Wheeler on a 2006 lads' holiday in Greece and began a secret fling.

And just four months later he started dating GIRLFRIEND No 3, air stewardess and glamour model Tia Hithersay, an ex lover of Gabby's England teammate Jermaine Jenas.

Problems started for the love cheat star when No 1 Sophie found incriminating text messages on his phone from raven-haired No 3 Tia.

Goal ace Gabby's first instinct was to play a dummy-he told distraught Sophie that Tia was just a gold- digging football groupie.

Our source said: "Reluctantly she believed him and battled on with the relationship. But a few weeks later, obviously still suspicious, she rang Tia demanding to know WHY she was sending text messages.

"Now it was Tia's turn to confront Gabby about being cheated. But again he denied being offside and insisted that live-in Sophie was merely a psycho ex-girlfriend who couldn't accept that their relationship had ended months earlier!

"Gabby's not that good-looking but he's a real charmer and has never had any trouble attracting women. So he knew he could sweet-talk both girls into believing his lies.

"He told Sophie his training schedule was so busy he didn't have time to see anyone else.

"And as Tia was constantly travelling between her Derby home and London she wasn't around in Birmingham to see what he was really up to.

"And neither of them knew he was also still dating No 2 Elizabeth a couple of times a week."

But Gabby's three-timing secret was eventually blown in December, 2006, when No 1 Sophie found text messages from Elizabeth on his phone and rang to find out who she was.

When she then tackled Gabby he played true to form-insisting Elizabeth was just another football 'groupie' and not important.

But his one-man baby boom was about to blow the whole scandal apart.

It kicked off in May last year when Tia discovered she was six weeks' pregnant. She then got a phone call from rival Sophie who not only told her the bombshell news that she too was pregnant, but that they were BOTH being taken for a ride as he was ALSO dating Elizabeth.

Tia confided in pals she was gutted at Gabby's heartless reaction when she told him she was pregnant.

She revealed he said to her: "Do what you like but you'll be on your own and end up just another girl with a footballer's baby."

And Sophie was shocked too when the star also told her he wasn't ready to be a dad. Both girls ended up making the heartbreak decision to terminate their pregnancies within days of each other.

The pal said: "Gabby paid £2,000 for Tia's private abortion and Sophie paid her own way at a Birmingham clinic."

Gabby carried on seeing Elizabeth but just kept in touch with Tia and Sophie by phone after their aborions.

But amazingly just two months later Sophie was staying over with the rat at his new £1 million home in Little Aston, hoping against hope he'd change his ways and be faithful.

Some hope. For Tia then had a one-night stand with him at the house and news broke that No 3 girlfriend Elizabeth was pregnant, too.

Mum Elizabeth and her newborn son Gabby Junior have been staying at a £170,000 house owned by Gabby Senior in Sutton Coldfield. The star has been spotted coming and going in the past few weeks.

A pal said: "Gabby's not exactly got a reputation for being caring or romantic, because all he's really interested in is himself, his designer clothes and his flashy cars.

"But amazingly he still somehow manages to charm women into bed with his sense of humour."

Last night neither Tia or Sophie would comment when approached by the News of the World.