Inside the return of Gavin and Stacey's last 'perfect' episode - and the Nessa and Smithy cliffhanger that's about to be answered, 明らかにする／漏らすs KATIE HIND
When James Corden arrived 支援する in London after eight years in Los Angeles last summer, he was looking for an 'enjoyable' 事業／計画（する）.
He had, after all, hosted a nightly 雑談（する） show in the US since 2015 and he was, say friends, '血まみれの knackered'.
In the 支援する of his mind was the delightful idea of penning a script which would tie up all the loose ends which were left に引き続いて the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special in 2019, when more than 18million people tuned in only to be left with the cliffhanger over whether his character Smithy and Ruth Jones's Nessa would 結局最後にはーなる together. Or not.
While the Buckinghamshire-born 星／主役にする was 'very much aware' that Britain 手配中の，お尋ね者 answers, Corden was against putting out an episode unless he felt it was perfect.?
And yesterday he 確認するd that he was thrilled with his and Ms Jones's work, because out of the blue he 地位，任命するd a picture of himself and the actress 持つ／拘留するing a script for Gavin and Stacey: The Finale on his Instagram.
Last 再会: The sitcom's characters Jason (played by Robert Wilfort), Stacey, Gavin, Smithy, Nessa, Pam, Gwen, Bryn and Mick in the Christmas special in 2019
James Corden 確認するd the final episode of Gavin and Stacey after 地位，任命するing a picture of himself and actress Ruth Jones 持つ／拘留するing a script on Instagram
Corden captioned the picture: 'Some news... I t's 公式の／役人!
'We have finished 令状ing the last episode of Gavin and Stacey. See you on Christmas Day, BBC One. Love Ruth and James.'
His 地位，任命する, which was liked by more than 600,000 people, means he and Ms Jones will be 再会させるd with Mathew Horne, who portrays Gavin Shipman, Joanna Page, who plays his wife Stacey, Alison Steadman, who is Gavin's mum Pam, and Larry Lamb as Gavin's dad Mick.
It will also see the return of young actor Oscar Hartland, who plays Smithy and Nessa's son Neil. The news of the return was met with 抱擁する excitement, with celebrities 含むing Amanda Holden, Rio Ferdinand and Gordon Ramsay all taking to social マスコミ to 株 their delight.
A source の近くに to Corden, 45, said: 'Gavin and Stacey is so special to James, he is so proud of it but more than anything he knows how much people just love it.
'His mantra is simple, he will only make an episode if he thinks it's perfect. If it isn't, then forget it. That's very important to him, and of course Ruth.'
So with more time on his 手渡すs now than he's had for the previous eight years, Corden teamed up with Ms Jones and thrashed out some ideas. Sources say that the BBC was 'chomping at the bit' for the new episode as it's regarded as a 'ratings 支持する／優勝者'.
Ruth Jones as Nessa and James Corden as Smithy in the classic BBC sitcom
With a 計画（する） in place, it was only a 事柄 of time before rumours began to 循環させる and, in February, Corden was said to be 'furious' when news that they were working on the 事業／計画（する） 漏れるd to an American website.
While he didn't make a public 声明, he was, say sources の近くに to him, looking at how he could shut the stories 負かす／撃墜する as he was nervous that if he wasn't happy with his work then he would not go 今後 with the 事業／計画（する）, disappointing his fans.
Jones did though. She went on Irish 無線で通信する 駅／配置する RTE 無線で通信する 1 to 否定する there was any such 事業／計画（する） in the pipeline, 説: '明らかに there's a bidding war going on between the BBC and Netflix and I love it because it says 'a source says' ? who is this source?
'It's sadly a rumour. All I can say is, if there was something to say on that 前線, James and I would happily 発表する it, we would.'
一方／合間, comedian 略奪する Brydon, who plays Stacey's Uncle Bryn, also quashed the talk, telling 無線で通信する 4's Today programme: 'I'd love it if it were true. I sound like a 政治家，政治屋. As far as I'm aware, it's another rumour. I don't know.'
The 批判的に acclaimed series, which was first broadcast in 2007, follows the lives of the two titular characters, Gavin from Essex and Stacey from Barry Island, South むちの跡s, 文書ing 重要な points in their long-distance 関係 and events that bring the two families together.
初めは 審査するd on BBC Three, it has spanned three seasons and two Christmas specials. At the 最高潮 of the 2019 episode Nessa got 負かす／撃墜する on one 膝 to 提案する to Smi thy ? but テレビ視聴者s did not get to hear his 返答.
The pair had an on-off 関係 during the series and in the special, it was 明らかにする／漏らすd they were co-parenting Neil. Five years on, fans will be fascinated to know, as the show's Welsh characters would say, 'what's occurring'.
It will also be 利益／興味ing to 証言，証人／目撃する the 再会 of the main players ? Corden, Ms Jones, Ms Page and Horne ? whose lives have taken very different turns since they last 株d a 審査する together.
While Corden is 広範囲にわたって known to have made a 抱擁する 指名する and 概算の £55million fortune for himself in the 明言する／公表するs, the others have lived quieter, いっそう少なく monied 存在s. Horne, 45, who 報道によれば fell out with Corden some years ago, relocated to the Highlands town of Helmsdale after the show ended 説, 'I'm there the whole time I'm not working. I just want to be in the Highlands.'
His 事実上の／代理 career, which for a time he 補足（する）d by working as a DJ, 再開するd however and he went on to 星／主役にする in film Bad Education with Jack Whitehall and Catherine Tate's The Nan Movie in 2022, based on the character from her BBC Two sketch show.
Most recently, he teamed up with Tamzin Outhwaite for a West End run of Michael Frayn's farce, Noises Off, which played at Theatre 王室の Haymarket from September to December last year.
一方／合間, Ms Page, 47, is a 正規の／正選手 panellist on ITV's Loose Women after starring in a number of TV series from Doctor Who to Midsomer 殺人s. She is married to former Emmerdale actor James Thornton and they have four children.
Ms Jones, 57, is playing Mother Superior in Sister 行為／法令／行動する at London's Dominion Theatre this year, with her run 始める，決める to last until August. In 2018, she published her first novel Never Greener, a romance about second chances, and went on to 令状 two more.
Melanie Walters, who plays Stacey's mum Gwen West, will this Christmas be starring in The Playhouse Weston's Beauty and the Beast pantomime.
And Welsh-born Hartland, 15, who played Neil as a baby in four episodes and again as a ten-year-old in the Christmas special in 2019, is 熟考する／考慮するing for his GCSEs this summer.
