Jonathan "Jonny" Foster is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale, played by Richard Grieve.

Openly gay, in 2008 Jonny enters into a civil partnership with Paul Lambert (Mathew Bose), the first of any primetime soap opera.

Grayson's wife, Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, is worried that they are having an affair and invites Johnny to a dinner party with her friend, Paul Lambert.

In July, Katie Sugden (Sammy Winward) gives birth to Grayson and Perdy's son – she agreed to be their surrogate when they were still together.

Paul's friends, Lily Butterfield (Anne Charleston) and Leyla Harding (Roxy Shahidi), seeing how upset he is, decide to try to reconcile him and Jonny.

He plans to travel to Australia to try to rebuild his relationship with Jonny, but his mother Val Pollard (Charlie Hardwick) lies and tells him that Rodney has a heart condition, hoping to stop him leaving while Lily gets in touch with Jonny and arranges a meeting between him and Paul.

[4] Matthew Bose, who plays Paul, said he was "proud" Emmerdale was the first, and commented that soaps "have a great responsibility to show things as they change and be cutting edge".