Aiden Turner Swims Naked in Loch Scene on Rivals

Aiden Turner is the latest Rivals name to push the second series further into raunchier territory, with episode five showing him swimming naked in a loch as Declan O'Hara. The episode landed today on Disney+ and added another explicit scene to a run that has already made this series feel steamier than the first.

Episode Five on Disney+

Episode five shows Declan O'Hara taking a skinny dip, then emerging from the water naked before a wider shot catches Turner baring his backside as he pulls on his trousers. The scene gives the series another headline-grabbing moment without leaving the show's central mix of sex and power plays behind.

Maud and Tony Baddingham

The same episode also pushes Maud and Tony Baddingham closer together, with Tony visiting Maud's house while her children are away. Later, Maud visits him at his workplace, where they kiss before he presses her against internal glass windows. David Tennant plays Tony Baddingham, and the scene keeps the second series moving in the direction the title has already set.

Danny Dyer's Earlier Scene

Episode four had already put Danny Dyer's Freddie in a steamy pool scene with Lizzie, played by Katherine Parkinson. Dyer also said his daughters wanted time codes before watching his full-frontal scene, adding a practical family layer to a show built around exposure on screen. He said, "Well, my daughters are very much going, 'Dad, I need time codes.'"

The series one history matters because Rivals was already built around intimate scenes before this second run started adding more of them. Dyer has also said, "Nobody's under pressure to be naked if they don't want to, but if a woman's getting her breasts out, why shouldn't I get it all out?" That puts the show's current nudity in a more deliberate place than simple shock value: the cast is leaning into a format that treats explicit scenes as part of the series language, not an isolated stunt.

For viewers, episode five is the point where Rivals stops hinting and starts repeating the pattern. If the second series keeps widening those scenes, the show is signaling that its selling point is now as much about exposed flesh and escalating intimacy as it is about the characters moving through their rivalries.