John Varcey

John Varcey (portrayed by James Weber Brown) is a minor character in the BBC sitcom Not Going Out.

Lucy (Sally Bretton) meets John Varcey at the Association of Business Trade Taskforce's 3 Day Annual Trade Conference. John is the owner of AGR Enterprises, and is conveniently looking for investment opportunities in recruitment - which just happens to be Lucy's field of expertise.

John is attracted to Lucy in more than a professional capacity, and persuades her up to his hotel room, where an attempt to seduce her was thwarted by Lee's (Lee Mack) search for Lucy in the hotel. When Lee reaches John's hotel room, posing as her father, her real mother Wendy (Deborah Grant) follows Lee to the room where she throws Lee out and waits for Lucy who is using the bathroom. In the meantime, Wendy's husband and Lucy's father Geoffrey (Geoffrey Whitehead) has found John's hotel room, finding Wendy in there with him. Geoffrey then jumps to the conclusion that John and Wendy are having an affair following a phone call from a friend of his that his wife was kissing another man at the conference. Geoffrey punches John and then discovers Lucy in the bathroom and punches him again.