 In 2001, Lahbib told Billy Sloan of the "Sunday Mail" that she loved playing the scenes in which Helen spars with "bad boy" Jim.Jim played a role in the second series cliff-hanger storyline, in which Shell attempts to stab him with a glass bottle.Stephenson told the "Mirror's" Karen Hockney that her character's relationship with Jim had ended and she tries to get revenge in "typical Shell style".