The Aaron Dingle actor is confirmed as part of the life-changing Emmerdale and Coronation Street crossover

Emmerdale star Danny Miller revealed a “weird” interaction he had with someone ahead of the highly-anticipated Corriedale crossover.

In 2026, soap fans will be in for a treat as a special one-hour episode will air with ITV soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale crossing over for the first time.

This is to celebrate the new “soap power hour” as ITV change their soap schedule to both Corrie and Emmerdale airing every weeknight for 30 minutes each, with no hour-long episodes.

Forty stars from both soaps will be crossing over for one night only with a life-changing event threatening to spill into the different soap worlds forever.

Among the confirmed cast members, Danny Miller (Aaron Dingle) was one of the first names to be announced alongside Coronation Street star Vicky Myers who plays DS Lisa Swain.

While Danny has been part of the soap since 2008, this is a first experience for all of the cast. Very little is known so far about the plot, but viewers can expect a multi-vehicle pileup between Manchester and Hotten.

When asked what it was like to work so closely with Emmerdale’s “rival” soap, Danny admitted: “We see them at awards, we see them at you know, various football matches, so we know each other kind of anyway, but bringing them over to Yorkshire where the majority of Corriedale was filmed, it was nice.

“We were all on location, we didn’t feel like they were coming to our turf, if you like. It just felt like we were all on location together, and it was great.”

The actor then quipped: “Everybody got on really well and, you know, we went to their studios and we were very welcome and they came to our studios and we put them in the canteen”

With fans from both soaps eager to learn what will go down during the hour-long episode, Danny revealed a “weird” interaction he had with someone ahead of the episode being aired.

He explained: “I had one guy weirdly on the M62 service station. He said to me, ‘I don’t think it’s going to work’. And I said, oh right, so what do you do for a living? Not that it’s a problem, by the way, and he said ‘I’m an HGV driver’.

“So I just kind of jumped and said, ‘well, I wouldn’t tell you how to drive an HGV’, which I thought was really interesting that nobody’s seen it. Nobody knows what the script is, but they don’t think it’s gonna work.”

Reflecting on the episode itself, Danny gushed: “The endless people behind it, and then I think it goes without saying that, I am very privileged to watch a bit of history within the soaps”.