Dorothy Bishop



Dorothy is Gary's long-suffering other half. She has been going out with him for a long time now, and so knows him back to front and inside out. She knows he is pompous, a liar and a potential cheat. Although they were together for many years, Gary refused to let her live with him as he feared it may interfere with his and Tony's late night chats. He eventually relented and let her move in; this was partly due to the fact that they had just had a baby.

Dorothy works at the local hospital as a nurse and once had a brief fling with a male colleague, who she took to Deb's dinner party. This was later interrupted when Gary burst in with a chainsaw to 'divide' the items they accumulated as a couple.

Dorothy was played by Caroline Quentin.