in december 2012, pictures emerged in the press of ray kissing kim's sister denise fox (diane parish). it was unknown at the time if it would lead to a relationship or remain a one-off. venn praised the storyline, saying "obviously it's about layers and showing the different sides of my character, so for me, this is a wonderful challenge. as an actor, i love challenges so i'm looking forward to seeing how this storyline develops. i think kim would be quite peeved if she found out!" venn explained ray's reasons for kissing denise, saying, "ray reaches a point where he needs to come up for a breath of air, as there's only so much of kim's heightened personality he can bear. did ray go for the wrong sister? who knows? he probably has more in common with denise than he ever had with kim." he said that he felt bad about ray kissing denise because he is close to empson and her character has been ray's partner for about 10 to 11 months, and said it was "really weird" to film the kiss with denise. the kiss, shown in january 2013, leads to ray and kim's relationship ending.