Aaron pushes everyone away Chas Dingle ’s breast cancer diagnosis in Emmerdale has obviously affected her whole family – they love her, after all. But the discovery that the cancer is related to her having the faulty BRCA2 gene has had a more direct impact. It means that her immediate relatives – her brothers and her children – could also have the faulty gene and be at higher risk of breast cancer.
‘More than anything, I don’t think he realises the seriousness of it straight away,’ Danny Miller told us. ‘I think it’s a case of him having to deal with it fairly quietly and privately.’ This leads Aaron to lie to Chas. She’s hugely relieved to hear that her brothers are in the clear and Aaron can’t bring himself to upset her by telling her the truth, so he tells her that he, too, tested negative. ‘He’s happy that everyone else is negative,’ Danny reflected.