Emmerdale

“Emmerdale’s John Confesses to Lost Love as Long-Awaited Answers Are Revealed”

Aaron Dingle and John Sugden sitting in the woods in Emmerdale

The two characters have found themselves in a surprising relationship (Picture: ITV)

When John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth) first arrived in Emmerdale in August he was an enigma. A self-described lone wolf, John was so fiercely independent and defensive that even his half sister, Victoria Sugden (Isabel Hodgins), found it ridiculously difficult getting to know him.

At first he couldn’t wait to get away from the village and only the fact that his van, which was also his home, needed repairs before he could move on kept him there.

Gradually, however, he’s found a place in the village and is working as a paramedic attached to the Brook Cottage Surgery practice. He’s on friendly terms with Victoria, but his most important relationship has been with Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller).

What started out as a casual hook-up has developed into a close relationship, even overcoming the awkwardness of John being the brother of Aaron’s former husband Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley).

Neither John or Aaron are the most forthcoming of people, both tending to be quite gruff and guarded. Possibly that’s what makes the relationship work as neither of them asks more than the other is prepared to give.

Still, there’s been a particular mystery attached to John. He carries around the dog tag of someone called Aidan Moore and has been very sensitive about anyone asking about it. We know that he and Aidan served together in the army and he was killed when a bomb went off. Medic John had tried to save him but could only hold his hand as he died.

Aaron and John talk at Mill Cottage flat in Emmerdale
John had previously struggled to open up (Picture: ITV)

In Tuesday (December 17)’s episode, on a hiking trip through the woods, Aaron persuaded John to talk more about Aidan.

John admitted that he had been his first love, ‘The first person I ever felt anything for, anything meaningful,’ he said. Aidan had been a joker, a show-off, someone who loved an audience. When John and Aidan were the only two in the camp who turned up to watch a 90s Luke Perry film, they knew they had a connection.

Aaron quipped that it all sounded ‘a bit rom-com,’ but John pointed out that while it was permitted to be gay in the army in theory, it was something they felt they had to keep quiet.

This meant that when Aidan died there was no one he could talk to and he tried to bury his feelings ‘until it nearly destroyed me from the inside.’

He told Aaron the pain hadn’t gone, and Aaron replied that he knew what it was like to be carrying that kind of secret around from the past. Previously he’d opened up to John about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father Gordon Livesy (Gary Mavers).

‘Every time you think of it it makes you sick to your stomach,’ he said. ‘But I also know it doesn’t help carrying it around on your own.’ He pulled John in for a hug, the two of them now closer than ever.

 

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