Emma didn't really enjoy Dexter's television appearances, but she always watched them. For The Bigger Picture, Dexter had invented a new character for himself. He was a ‘man of the people’. When he interviewed pop stars and actors, he spoke with a cockney accent Emma had never enjoyed Dexter's version of a Yorkshire accent and she thought that his ‘cockney’ voice was even worse. Emma liked Dexter to know that she wasn't impressed by his television career. She told him this often.