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Lee Mack took a sex robot home and loved it so much he wanted to keep the head

The new series of Not Going Out sees Lee Mack 'get to grips' with a sex robot and says he could 'see her breathing' before asking if he could keep one part

[Lee Mack's highly-successful BBC show is back]

Lee Mack's highly-successful BBC show is back(Image: CREDIT LINE:BBC/Avalon/Mark Johnson)

Lee Mack got to grips with a sex robot for the new series of Not Going Out. In one wacky storyline his character Lee brings one home by accident.

Filming the scenes was a very hard job indeed. Lee said: There has been so many documentaries about these things on TV and let me tell you, robotic sex dolls are very hard to get hold of.

We had to get an actor to do it with a mask on. But it just didnt work. You could see her breathing.

In the end, they had to make a robot, and we used this robot, and it was brilliant. It moved its head, it moved its mouth, it moved its eyes. I was in a double act with a sex robot!

Lee loved filming with the robot so much he asked to keep it. The comic tried not to come across as a pervert, but he failed miserably.

He said: After filming, I said, Can I keep the head? I dont want the rumour going around that I insisted on keeping the sex doll can I just have its head?

[Lee Mack's Not Going Out is back - this time with added sex robot]

Lee Mack's Not Going Out is back - this time with added sex robot

Then I realised, thats far worse. I dont want that rumour going around! Ive got it at home, but the bloody batteries have run out, and its eyes have gone a bit Marty Feldman!

Lee is hoping the storyline will make fans giggle. Ever since the sitcom first started, hes always been keen for it to be packed with decent jokes.

He said: We do have a lot of gags. When we started writing it all those years ago, I remember someone saying to me, Its very important to have a gag every page.

I was like, Thats not enough. A gag a page is probably only every 30 seconds we try and ask a question every time, if something is said, and its important information, can it be said with an attempt at getting a laugh as well?

I do think the people that love the show love for that reason. But also, the people that arent fans of studio sitcom probably dont like it for that reason.

People arent really used to hearing a high gag ratio anymore in sitcoms.

Not Going Out first aired in 2006 and has already had 13 series. It recently celebrated hitting 100 episodes.

The new series starts on June 13 at 9pm on BBC One.

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