Jemma Marsden was the wife of philandering shampoo salesman Tim Marsden. He had started an affair of sorts with Candice Stowe, although in truth it was in his eyes one based solely on easy sex rather than a meaningful relationship. Audrey Roberts had contacted people in the hairdressing trade and discovered that he had a girl in every salon he visited but Candice, hopelessly smitten, refused to listen to the older woman's advice that she was being used by a slimeball.