 At one point, Angie suggested that Sean become business partners with Chris, but Sean abruptly brushed this idea off.Sean's establishment as an unattentive husband and unfit father made him notorious in Emmerdale as a potential misery, and he became very unpopular with his fellow residents.In February 2001, Sean's father Len joined him in Emmerdale following the sudden death of Sean's mother and Len's wife Eileen.