Linda La Hughes shares a flat with Tom Farrell. Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and irrestible, however. She's also sex mad and obsessed with men. Tom is an aspiring actor. He's got an agent, but finds it difficult to get parts. He doesn't like Linda much, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that they share a flat. She isn't completely comfortable with his homosexuality, perhaps because she finds it difficult to live with a man who doesn't find her sexually attractive.
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After a night out Tom wakes up with Neville, an irritating security guard he throws out, while a horrified Linda finds she has gone to bed with Maddie, a lesbian who praises her sexual technique. She tries to prove she's straight by accosting a man in the bar where Neville works, then by taking on one of dominatrix Beryl's clients.
Home on a Saturday night, Tom suddenly panics over feeling old, so he hits the clubs on his own while Linda stays in drinking wine and drunkenly flirting with Jez. While Tom is out he meets Nino, a good-looking Italian, but the next day he wakes up with Kevin from Manchester.
When Linda finds a love letter from an admirer, she assumes it's Jez and does her best to vamp him; Tom has an audition to play a criminal in a reconstruction sketch for 'Crimewatch,' but on his way to the audition he slips on the overly-polished floor and breaks his leg.
Tom has a one-line walk-on part as a lollipop man in 'Salmon', a surreal Japanese play supposedly starring Tom Cruise and staged in a converted fire station. After he and Linda have swapped school stories in the dressing room, where he breaks a sink, he forgets his one line and, billed for the sink, he and Linda must escape down the fire pole.
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