Emmerdale actress Isabel Hodgins has teased a new storyline for her character Victoria Sugden where she starts snooping through her half-brother’s possessions, exposing secrets

Emmerdale actress Isabel Hodgins has teased a new storyline for her character Victoria Sugden where she starts snooping through her half-brother’s possessions, exposing secrets

“Even Matty picks up on this and, like, tries to be like, ‘Oh yeah, they’re really cool. Oh, that’s your mum, that’s nice.’ And she’s getting nothing from John. He’s not interested.”

As John directs his full attention to his mobile phone, Victoria takes the opportunity to swipe it out of his hands to see what he is looking at. “She completely disrespects his boundaries – standard!” explained Isabel.

“She sees that there are quite a few texts off Aaron. And she sees that one is of a particular nature. So she’s very shocked to see that. And so she asks him, ‘What’s going on, why is Aaron messaging you like that?’

“I think she’s shocked because she’s now got this relationship with Aaron where it’s back to Victoria and Aaron rather than Aaron being with Robert.

“So, first and foremost at the minute, he’s her friend. So there’s a little sense of betrayal there, as in, ‘How could he be doing this to me when he’s my friend?’.”

It appears that Victoria is also worried Aaron Dingle’s (Danny Miller) romance with John may sabotage her newfound relationship with her half-sibling. She adds: “But her whole reasoning is that Aaron has been involved with Robert and Aaron is a bit of a liability.

“And if they continue to see each other and it goes wrong, John’s going to leave and he’s going to leave the village. And that’s the last thing that she wants. So that’s why she is so bothered.”

Victoria’s curiosity gets the better of her and before long she is in the back of John’s cherished camper van snooping around. “It is an accident because… she has been very full-on, but I swear it was an accident because of how she behaved in the pub.

“So she lets herself in, and she has a little snoop. I’m a little sister in real life, and we snoop. It’s what we do. We’re good rooters! And so she comes across some of his belongings and she has a good old nosy.”

Victoria soon finds the dog tag with the mysterious name before John catches her. Does this raise suspicions about John’s true character?

“She is suspicious because she’s just either been drip-fed or found everything out by accident,” Isabel added.

“And so I just think she wants the chance to be able to have the frank conversation where, you know, let me ask you my questions, please answer them and let’s actually start to build a relationship.

“Andy did questionable things, Robert did questionable things, but they’re her family and she’ll stand by them through whatever. So I think she’d be the same in John’s case.”

On the potential for more Sugden reunions, the soap star exclaimed: “Oh, the more the merrier!”

Emmerdale airs weekdays at 7:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX, with an hour long episode every Thursday