Lance Stater

Lance Stater is a fork lift truck driver at a vegetable wholesaler. He drives a yellowTriumph TR7 and is an earnest metal detector. He loves TV quiz shows. His metal detector is the Minelab CTX 3030 which he has modified. He lives in an upstairs flat in the town of Danebury, above Mrs Morris who is in her 90's. He has a daughter, Kate, by a summer fling and an ex, Maggie, who he is secretly still in love with. She left him on 5th November, when he went out to buy a beer to drown his sorrows, but instead bought a lottery ticket which won him £300,000

Lance has a crush on the model Linda Lusardi, and is rather an expert on her life, stating that his preferred specialised subject on Mastermind would be her

Lance plays the mandolin but only when seated, and is in a band named "Fanny Magnet" with Andy Stone. He wrote the song "New Age Girl" which is about his lost love for Maggie, which he denies when asked

Friends with Andy Stone

Ex-husband of Maggie, who left him for Tony, a Pizza Hut Manager