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Hit Disney+ drama Rivals is back for season 2, promising even more bonkfests, backstabbing and Rutshire chaos.To celebrate the return of everyone’s favourite eighties smut, stars Aidan Turner and Victoria Smurfit sit down with The Independent for a chaotic game of Pick Your Rival, revealing which characters they would most – and least – want to face off against.Who would throw the best dinner party? Who knows everyone’s secrets? And who is the most dangerous person in Rutshire? Watch Turner and Smurfit unpack the scandal, rivalry and outrageous drama behind one of TV’s most deliciously chaotic dramas.

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00:01Mmm.
00:02Ewww!
00:03Well, I mean...
00:05Aidan Turner. Me.
00:07It is such a pleasure to talk to you about Rivals Season 2.
00:11People say that life
00:12isn't a fairy tale.
00:13But what if you just haven't found the person
00:16who will give you a happy ending?
00:19Watching this show
00:20I realise I would align myself
00:21with all of the wrong people, so...
00:23I respect that. I need your help, okay?
00:26And today we're going to play a game called
00:27Pick your rival. So I'm going to give you
00:29a series of prompts. You need to tell me
00:31which character you would most or least
00:33want to go up against.
00:35Okay, so which character would you
00:37most want on your pub quiz team?
00:39Ooh, good one.
00:41And then Patricks, I'd want Henry Hampshire.
00:43Henry Hampshire...
00:45Would you though? Yes, because I think he'd know all the
00:47posh questions and I'd know all the less posh
00:49questions.
00:51I think maybe Tony.
00:53I think Tony is quite clever.
00:54Yeah. He enjoys a newspaper.
00:57Can I ask, is David Tennant spilling into
00:58that answer? Oh, I think for sure
01:00David's a very, very intelligent guy too.
01:02Crazy smart. Yeah, crazy smart.
01:04Next up, which character would throw the most
01:06legendary dinner party?
01:08Us.
01:10I actually think it's rude she even asked that question.
01:12Do you feel that? Before you finish the question
01:14I didn't know the answer.
01:15I mean, obviously. Who else?
01:19Who's second?
01:19Who else is that? I'll just get out.
01:21I'm just gonna get out of here.
01:22We get a case of four too, don't we?
01:24Because our daughter makes the most delicious foods.
01:26Which character would you most want
01:28to swap lives with for a week?
01:31No consequences.
01:32I'm gonna go with Baz.
01:34I think Baz has got a pretty cool life.
01:36He's this really attractive, suave guy
01:39who runs a bar.
01:40He lives a bit fast and loose.
01:42It seems like he's having a great time.
01:44I was about to swear there.
01:45I shouldn't do that.
01:46No, don't do that.
01:47That's how strongly I feel about being Baz for a week.
01:50Why am I not Baz?
01:50It's made me very excited.
01:51I think it would be hilarious to be Valerie for a week.
01:55Nobody does better, Lisa McGuinness.
01:58She's just epic.
01:59But I think it could be fun to be her for a week
02:01and swan around shouting at people
02:04and being married to Fred Fred
02:07and worrying about my pool and my hair
02:09and popping off to my boutique.
02:12Which character would you call in a crisis situation?
02:15Yeah.
02:16I've got that straight away.
02:18It's gotta be Rupert.
02:18I just think he's a good fixer actually, yeah.
02:20I think he would sort it out.
02:21I think he's got a big heart.
02:23I think he's probably a different person
02:25than you would have met ten years ago, that Rupert.
02:27I think he's quite, yeah, in a lot of ways selfless
02:30but has a lot of connections.
02:32I don't know.
02:33I have a really warm place for him
02:35but it's really hard to articulate why
02:37now that I'm saying it out loud.
02:38Maybe it's because I really love Alex.
02:40It's probably now.
02:42Would you call Alex in a crisis?
02:44A hundred percent.
02:45Really?
02:45Yes, I mean I have.
02:47Have you?
02:47I do.
02:48Can we know what the crisis is?
02:49No.
02:49No, of course not.
02:50Definitely not.
02:51I love that.
02:52I love that.
02:54No.
02:55I would call Lord Battingham.
02:59You're trusting him.
03:00Yeah.
03:00I feel like I could handle him.
03:02Maud could handle him, I think.
03:03He would do you the favor.
03:05One hundred percent.
03:05He'd make it work.
03:06You'd owe him forever.
03:07You'd owe him.
03:08But he'd dig you out of a hole.
03:10Yeah.
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