The countdown is on to the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special… (Picture: Baby Cow)
One of the stars of hit TV show Gavin and Stacey is keeping viewers on edge for as long as possible, having refused to say whether there will be a wedding in the finale of the BBC sitcom.
Alison Steadman, 78, who plays everyone’s favourite fake vegetarian, Pam Shipman, said she was sworn to secrecy over whether Nessa and Smithy finally tie the knot.
Speculation has been rife for months that Ruth Jones’s character will marry James Corden’s character in the last-ever episode of the comedy, which airs on Christmas Day.
The hit TV series aired between 2007 and 2010 and returned in 2019 with a one-off festive episode that ended on a cliffhanger when Nessa got down on one knee – we all deserve a round of applause for waiting five years for an answer.
With the show returning and set to go out in style, fans of the series believe it will end with an emotional wedding as the beloved characters finally say, ‘I do.’
The show starred Mathew Horne and Joanna Page as young couple Gavin and Stacey who fall in love despite one living in Essex and the other in Wales.
Alison Steadman is giving nothing away, sadly (Picture: Baby Cow)
Larry Lamb and Alison play Gavin’s parents Mick and Pam, while Melanie Walters stars as Stacey’s widowed mother, Gwen, with Rob Brydon as her Uncle Bryn.
Alison, 78, played coy as she spoke at the Cheltenham Literature Festival about returning to her role, while also promoting her newly published memoir, Out Of Character.
The Liverpool-born star spoke of her early career in theatre before landing leading roles in Mike Leigh’s Nuts in May and Abigail’s Party, as well as The Singing Detective and Pride and Prejudice.
Returning to Gavin and Stacey, she was asked, ‘Do they, or don’t they?’ and Alison replied: ‘I don’t know.’
She joked she could be bribed for ‘a couple of million…’ but then added: ‘No, no, no, I cannot say a word and I will not say a word to anyone at all.’
Alison explained the show began on BBC Three before gradually working its way up to BBC One as popularity soared.
Fans are convinced Nessa and Smithy will tie the knot (Picture: Baby Cow)
‘It was Ruth and James’s first thing that they wrote together, and the BBC obviously loved it, but they couldn’t kind of risk pushing it straight onto BBC One, so it went on to BBC Three, and then it moved to BBC Two, got more and more popular, and ended up on BBC One.’
Alison was asked whether the character of Pam was created through her own improvisation or from the writing of Ruth and James in the writing room.
‘Well, I wouldn’t say I’m like Pam at all but what they did was they wrote this wonderful, wonderful character who’s one minute, you know, shouting, “Mick! Mick! Stop that!” or whatever,’ she said.
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Source:: Metro
