Joining TVMeg for an interview in 2021, the duo explained that they challenge each other on set. “David will come up to me, or I’ll go up to him – and, you know, we were having a discussion yesterday. We really want the scenes to work” said Eamonn.

“We’re still challenging each other to be the best we can be, and the fact that we are doing that nine years later, it speaks volumes,” he continued. “So, the audience will never get to see that, but I can guarantee you that when we’re in the middle of a scene and David has got that look in his eye, I’ll turn around and go, ‘Go again.’ He’ll go, ‘Really?’ [I’ll] go, ‘Yeah, go again.’”

Opening up about their bond, Eamonn added: “We care about each other, and we care about the job still because of the love of the people that are here and the family that we have. So, that’s never going to go away. I know that now.”

Joe Minoso and Yuriy Sardarov formed the sweetest bond. “Yuriy is quite possibly one of my closest friends ever, and I adore him,” Joe said in a 2019 interview.

As fans will remember, Yuriy’s character Otis was killed off in the season eight premiere, a storyline which Joe found difficult to film.

“Losing Otis (Yuriy Sardarov), which was really two episodes. That one was difficult, not only as an actor to make yourself go to that space but also personally. He’s one of my very best friends,” Joe told Parade in 2021.

“Our very first day of training for this show was together, and we were the only two because we were the last two cast. So, everybody had actually already gone through all of the training, and me and Yuriy came in together as the last two on the show. So eight years later to have to let go of a man that stood up at my wedding because he means that much to me, was really, really difficult.”