Feeling Guilty Aidan?
We spoke to that naughty Mr Shayne Ward about what happened between Aidan and Maria and what sort of fallout we should expect...
How does Aidan feel in the aftermath of his night with Maria?
Gutted that he’s actually done something behind Eva’s back because he does really like Eva. He feels a lot of remorse, but he’s just not the settling down type and he just feels the pressures of that.
One of the reasons why he did it was because it was coming up to the anniversary of his mum’s passing, and Eva should have known this because she’s with him now, but when he asks her if she knows what anniversary it was, she says something completely different which really gets Aidan’s back up. So he goes and does what he does, but he instantly regrets it.
How does she react when he tells her it was a mistake?
I think she feels a little bit more for Aidan. She eventually ends up finishing with Luke, to Aidan’s surprise and he’s shocked by that and worried she’s left Luke for him. I think Maria feels that it could turn into something more between them. As things play out, there could be something more in the future, but we’re going to wait and see the response from the audience.
Doe she really mean it?
Aidan doesn’t know how to deal with those types of situations, he doesn’t want to hurt anyone so when he says it was a mistake, he’s saying it in the heat of the moment. When Maria walks away it hits him and he’s wondering why he just can’t say things in a nice way. Sometimes he just comes out with things in the wrong tone.
Where does he tell Eva that he was the previous night?
He tells her he was at a mates who’d just split up with his Mrs and was having money troubles.
Can you talk us through what happens when he and Eva join Maria and Luke for a drink?
Aidan takes Eva for something to eat in the Bistro and they see that Maria and Luke are sat down, and there’s no tables so they get asked to join Maria and Luke’s table, and it get’s very awkward. Awkward to the point where Aidan is waiting for Eva and Luke to go to the bar so he can ask Maria what she’s playing at.
It’s obvious that there’s a lot of tension, to the point where Maria ends up walking out and Aidan has to make the excuse she’s gone out for some air. It’s very uncomfortable for them both, but Aidan is just trying to play it cool, so she’s struggling with it.
How does it end up coming out that he was at Maria’s the previous night? Can Aidan talk his way out of it?
While we’re having something to eat, Caz, who is staying with Maria, comes up to us and asks Aidan if he has seen Liam’s toy car, but Aidan told Eva that he spent the night with his mate, so Caz basically drops Aidan in it with Eva. But they manage to cover their tracks because Maria makes up the excuse that after he was done at his mates, Maria was helping him look for flats for him and Eva, which then causes it’s own problems because Aidan doesn’t want to live with Eva.
Eva’s not stupid, she does know that something’s not quite right.
How does he react when he hears that Maria and Luke have split up?
He starts getting really nervous, he doesn’t want that to happen because if they stay together it can kind of close the lid on what’s happened, but because they’ve split up, he doesn’t know what Maria is going to do next, she might decide she wants to tell Eva. Or she might tell somebody else. It was a mistake, just one of those things that happens, two bottles of wine on a school night.
What’s his reaction when he spots Maria buying a pregnancy test?
He completely freaks out, he walks into the shop and see’s her getting the test and instantly he’s thinking oh my god, this cannot be happening, she’s pregnant!
He makes sure that Maria doesn’t see him, until he has to mention it to her after a while, and it’s kind of like a puppet on a string, she teases him about it at first because she’s annoyed with him, but she eventually tells Aidan that it wasn’t for her, it was for a friend.
How do you think he’d cope if he was going to become a dad?
Aidan doesn’t want to settle down, but if he had to put his mind to it, he would be able to step up to the plate if there was a baby involved. He’s just terrified of the fact that he cheated getting out. It’s not that he doesn’t want kids, he just wants Eva to slow down and he wants to focus on building up the business and taking Underworld to the next level.
Why is he still dragging his heels about moving in with Eva?
For him, everything’s regimented in the sense that he wants to be focused on one thing at once, rather than dealing with lots of things at the same time. He’s got a lovely girlfriend, she’s beautiful, but he wants to do things at his own pace and he thinks that they’re good at the moment and don’t need to be thinking of the next step.
Do you think he’s serious about her?
He is yes, he’s starting to get serious, it’s his first serious girlfriend in a very long time and what’s quite nice is that the public does like Aidan and Eva together. I do think that he will stay with Eva but we don’t know because that’s Corrie, we don’t actually know what’s going to happen next!
What advice would you give to Aidan about his predicament?
He did what he did and he’s got to hold his hands up and take full responsibility for that because that was his choice, at the end of the day they’re both adults. He needs to make sure that nothing like this happens again and to focus on his relationship with Eva, and try to keep it amicable with Maria. It’s going to be fun to see how it plays out.