bernie sayers is a golf instructor. she first appeared when dev alahan (jimmi harkishin) took golf lessons to try to be better than steve mcdonald (simon gregson). after his first lesson, dev took bernie to the rovers where steve was agitated upon seeing her; it soon transpired steve had also been taking golf lessons with her without dev's knowledge. bernie soon began a relationship with dev. in december 2009, dev discovered that ex-wife sunita parekh (shobna gulati) was engaged to matt davis (christopher colquhoun), a man bernie was also giving golf lessons to. after several confrontations with them, dev ordered bernie to cancel matt's lessons and argued with her about his children. on 14 december, dev tried to make it up with bernie over lunch by asking her to move in with him. bernie however, knew he was only doing it to get back at sunita and dumped him.