Emmerdale actor Danny Miller has announced he’s engaged to his partner Steph Jones and they are expecting their first child together.
Danny, who has played bad boy Aaron Dingle on the soap since 2008, made the revelation in a recent interview, explaining that just a month after popping the question they found out about their unexpected pregnancy.
"It was a massive surprise because emotionally we’d been psyching ourselves up for IVF," said Steph. "It was meant to be. We got engaged at the beginning of January and found out we were expecting in February."
Speaking to OK! magazine, Danny told of the moment hearing the news while on set filming the huge explosion scenes from earlier in the year.
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Wracked with guilt, Liv flicks the self-destruct switch and drowns her fears in booze, telling Aaron to back off. Drinking the house dry, Liv hits the Woolly and ends up bringing some sleazy bloke called Max home with her.
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The next day, Liv wakes up to the wreckage of the night before feeling even worse, and falls into another seizure. After convincing Aaron never to give up on family, Chas calls round, determined to set Liv back on the straight and narrow.
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Elsewhere, Gabby's been up to no good, hacking into the company accounts and buying herself loads of designer stuff. When Kim starts to cotton on and Gabby realises she's been rumbled, she makes out Kim's episodes of confusion are to blame.
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Kim makes a call to her doctor to ask for a proper dementia test, and Gabby pours her a medicinal brandy, promising to keep her episode a secret. Later to calm her nerves Kim pours herself another slug of brandy, not realising someone has spiked her decanter with diazepam.
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The police call in the village and tell Pollard that they're dropping the charges against him and are taking Aaron in for questioning.
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Victoria manages to get the truth out of Ben - that's he's not over Aaron like he says he is. An idea forming, Vic suggests to Ethan that he put himself out there on some dating apps.
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Meanwhile, Ethan meets his dad for a coffee and tells him he's decided to put the search for his mum behind him - much to Charles' relief.
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Over a drink, Amy blurts out to Matty that she's in love with him but is mortified when he doesn't reciprocate.
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"I rang Steph and she was laughing but crying and I just knew. With us being with the IVF consultant the day before, I was in complete shock," he said.
"I started crying. It’s making me emotional to think about it now. I bought another pregnancy test on the way home, not that she had to prove it, but I just wanted that moment for us."
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In 2019, Danny’s job was under threat when a number of fans made calls for him to be sacked after a foul-mouthed rant on Instagram stories after he failed to win anything at the British Soap Awards and called a fan a "f--king idiot" and a "sh-thouse".
A year later he was in trouble again after angrily tweeting about a Gregg’s worker who asked him to “smile”.
"Suffering with a bit of anxiety today and so not my normal self I feel," he wrote. "Then some skanky woman working @GreggsOfficial ‘cheer up don't be so miserable. Smile!!’
"You know what, Karen... Why don't you f--k off you insensitive, horrible woman. Be nice. Or don't say anything."