Three independent 20-something girls – Ditzy Caralyn (Natalie Walter), bossy Ruth (Samantha Janus) and feisty, streetwise Leigh (former Big Breakfast host Denise Van Outen) – share a flat in St John’s Wood in London.
In the flat across the hall lives their randy neighbour Charlie Lovall (Karl Howman), the former owner of a successful chain of video shops whose divorce from his ex-wife Angela has cost him dearly – although he still has his Porsche (which he refers to as ‘the lovewagon’).
Leigh works as a (spectacularly neglectful and stroppy) barmaid/waitress for snooty public school-educated Benito (Mark Hayford) at the nearby Bar Coda.
Despite his undisguised disdain for Leigh and her friends, he keeps her on because she’s cheap, lives locally, and lacks ambition.
Ruth eventually marries an old millionaire (“a rich mug she can ponce off now her tits are starting to drop” as Leigh put it) and is replaced in the second series by would-be model Frankie (Madeleine Curtis).
The dialogue was wooden, and sexual themes and gratuitously vulgar language prevailed (The series relied heavily on the word “bollocks”).
Charlie Lovall
Karl Howman Leigh Jackson
Denise Van Outen Caralyn Monroe
Natalie Walter Ruth Frause
Samantha Janus Francesca Frasier-Jones (Frankie)
Madeleine Curtis Benito
Mark Hayford
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In the flat across the hall lives their randy neighbour Charlie Lovall (Karl Howman), the former owner of a successful chain of video shops whose divorce from his ex-wife Angela has cost him dearly – although he still has his Porsche (which he refers to as ‘the lovewagon’).
Charlie Lovall 
