It's because she's friends with him, so she probably felt she could say whatever.

I got the very same feeling too as soon as he mentioned he is good friends with her husband.

don't think it helped with Lee's mates knowing Emma's husband, perhaps hubby told Emma what she should ask Lee about messing the girls around !

I thought she did ok and did slightly challenge him on what was going on. When they ended up talking over each other, that's not good. She doesn't have the power to make someone stop, like Paxman.