Mandy Wilkins

Amanda "Mandy" Wilkins is an ambitious yet underachieving career girl who finds her life going nowhere except to bed with an endless stream of men. Many of the men she sleeps with, she is not particularly attracted to, and there are hints throughout the series that she is simply addicted to sex (she tries during the second series to abstain from sex entirely).

In early episodes there were running gags involving Mandy's history of childhood bedwetting (which did not cease until she was 13). She had sex with her science teacher at school, getting him the sack and causing his marriage to break down, and also as a teenager had a child in secret with her boyfriend, Stoat, that she couldn't cope with and gave up for adoption. Despite having an IQ of 139 and earning a degree at University, Mandy is stuck in a cycle of temporary, insignificant secretarial jobs, often with lecherous bosses. She gets into debt far too often and envies her best friend Claudia Henson, who did the same things as Mandy but is much more successful.