 "Emmerdale" were portraying Kathy as being uninterested in relationships at the time of Dave's declaration; which results in her rejecting his advances.Burrows told Victoria Ross from "Inside Soap" that she could not blame Kathy for "hanging back a bit" and she "hated" the idea of Kathy beginning a new relationship.While she believed that her character was not ready for romance; Burrows said that Dave had the potential to be Kathy's love interest because he was "very similar" to her first husband, Jackie Merrick (Ian Sharrock).