Emmerdale star teases long road to Robert and Aaron reunion as tension grows

Emmerdale fan favourites Robert Sugden and Aaron Dingle may face a long road to a full blown reunion. Fans will no doubt be overjoyed to see things going well between the couple, despite the arrival of Robert's husband Kev.

However, Mandy Dingle star Lisa Riley has warned fans there could be a bit of a wait before things really heat up between Aaron and Robert. A self-confessed huge fan of Robron, Lisa has teased what's coming up for the pair.

Speaking exclusively to The Mirror at the Inside Soap Awards, Lisa said: "When you see a really good cake in the window, like a full raspberry gateau - you can't have all the gateau at once. So we're just going to keep giving you slices and maybe down the line, you'll get the full cake. If we give you the full cake now you'd be like then what?!"

Danny Miller - who plays Aaron - previously opened up about reuniting with Ryan Hawley, who plays Robert, on screen after years of hoping the actor would return to the iconic role.

"Everybody loves him and when they're together, they're just two worlds of different people. You know, Aaron's nothing like Robert in terms of his manipulative, kind of, scheming side of things he does on his own. And when together, they're just this sort of like ball of love and genuine feelings for one another and genuine soulmates, you know... That's always been the note," Danny said.

Danny had wanted Ryan to come back for a while and was so thrilled to see him back in the Dales.

"We work very similar. We kind of enjoy a lot of the same things and we find stuff in the scripts that, you know, worked for each other. I think the whole idea for the sort of short term future, long term, I don't know, we never get told these things genuinely," he said.

"It is just sort of like trying to bat off [Aaron's] real love for Robert because he'd already picked John, which happens to be his brother, his long-lost brother, which sounds like a soap, really. But these things are great though, because these are what the scriptwriters have to come up with. So, you imagine going, 'What can we do next with them?'"

He added: "And they have to come up with it in a room full of opinions. They're so good. The team at Emmerdale, the scriptwriters, storylines, they're so, so good at being able to come up with these ideas."

But with Kev and John still technically in the way - will Robert and Aaron really get their happy ending?

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