despite sharon's heartache, the family reform their strong bond, including the introduction of den's new wife chrissie watts (tracy ann oberman), who follows him back to england from spain a few months later. dennis moves in with zoe slater (michelle ryan) but cannot reciprocate her love and sharon seduces him again. they continue their affair in secret behind zoe and den's backs, and they become sick of sneaking around and they plan to leave on christmas day. den, however, had spotted them kissing on christmas eve.