Emmerdale’s Danny Miller almost didn’t go to his second audition for Aaron Dingle as he jetted off on a lads’ holiday instead.

Actor Danny Miller made his Emmerdale debut back in 2008 when he was just 17 years old. Over the years, his character Aaron Dingle has been the face of many challenging storylines.

Some of these include self-harm, sexual abuse, and homophobia-related attacks towards Aaron while he was in prison.

Before Emmerdale, Danny made his television debut when he portrayed Kyle Brown ithe  drama series Grange Hill. However, he admitted that he almost didn’t show up to his call-back for Aaron Dingle when he decided to go on a lads holiday instead.

Speaking on the Live, Laugh, Luke podcast with Luke Hamnett, Danny recalled the early days when he was auditioning for different roles.

He shared: “I auditioned for it and I must have done into the 30s of auditions of ‘no, no, no’, and nobody likes rejection that many times… There was so many weird auditions I thought ‘I’ve had enough of this’, I’ll just do something else instead and went to Faliraki.

“The week before I’d auditioned for Aaron and I was told it was for six episodes and gonna come in and cause a bit of a riot […] so I was kind of not interested. I think that’s what they liked.”

He then shared that him and his friends were waiting for another friend before going to the airport on holiday to Faliraki, and he got a phone call.

Danny shared: “He went, ‘Oh hiya Danny, it’s Sam here… Great news, Emmerdale want to see you again on Tuesday’, I went ‘oh no, I’m going away on my first lads holiday…’

“I had a decision to make then and there, and I thought ‘there’ll be plenty more’ so I went to Faliraki. One of my best mates Aaron was sat down and went ‘you’re being an idiot why are you still here’. So, he paid for my flight home.”

The actor added: “I came back and did the audition… I ended up coming back for another audition and apparently from that second audition where I came back from Faliraki, Faye the casting director said ‘it was always you’.”

Danny then shared that he had no idea Aaron was gay when he auditioned for the part, and that he originally based him on Aaron his best friend.

He said: “They just said to me, come and see me at the end of the day we want to talk to you… He (Gavin Blyth, producer) said ‘I don’t want to do this storyline with anyone else. If you don’t want to do it, we won’t do it but I think we need to educate the country.’

“The idea was this tough lad just happened to be gay… Let’s just get rid of the stereotypes.”