Paul

Paul (portrayed by Toby Longworth) is a minor character in the BBC sitcom Not Going Out.

Paul is introduced as a potential client of Lucy (Sally Bretton). Her potential contract with him is put at risk when she runs over his daughter Sophie's rabbit Button. Panicking, Lucy kills the twitching rabbit with a torch to relieve it of its pain. When she returns to the apartment, a crying Lucy informs Lee of the rabbit's death and that she has taken the corpse away with her. Lee reluctantly returns the rabbit on her behalf, but Paul does not recognise the rabbit that Lee returns. This rabbit was a wild animal, and Lee poses as Warren Burrows to protect his true identity as Lucy's flatmate - Button had been stuck underneath Lucy's car wheel arch the whole time, and she had killed the wrong rabbit entirely with the torch. Paul takes his daughter to buy a new pet a few days later, and they spot Lee, or Warren, trying to escape unnoticed from the same pet shop whilst he and Lucy attempt to replace the disappeared rabbit with a similar one. Paul is fuming with Lee when he discovers him crawling towards the exit, and the whole situation ends with Lucy having to reveal Lee's true identity to her important client in the end.

Paul is later invited to the wedding of Lucy and Lee in series 7.