BBC drops first look at Gavin and Stacey Christmas finale with hint over huge mystery

The BBC has dropped a archetypal look astatine the finale of Gavin and Stacey, arsenic the Christmas peculiar takes spot 5 years connected from the erstwhile instalment.

The beloved bid aired betwixt 2007 and 2010 and returned successful 2019 with a one-off festive occurrence that ended connected a cliff-hanger erstwhile Vanessa Shanessa ‘Nessa’ Jenkins (Ruth Jones) projected to Neil ‘Smithy’ Smith (James Corden).

After months of speculation, the co-creators revealed their storyline, and that of Gavin (Mathew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page), would beryllium returning to screens erstwhile again for 1 past episode.

Details of the peculiar person been kept tightly nether wraps until now, though the formed person been spotted successful Wales filming, and chatshow big James teased it would beryllium ‘hard to watch’.

We inactive person yet to find retired whether Nessa and Smithy tied the knot, and their aboriginal with their lad ‘Baby Neil’.

Another monolithic enigma besides remains, arsenic fans person been hopeless to cognize what ever really happened connected the infamous sportfishing trip, aft it was continuously referenced by Stacey’s Uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) and his nephew Jason (Robert Wilfort).

Teasing the return, the BBC shared an representation of Mathew and Joanna arsenic Gavin and Stacey, arsenic good arsenic James and Ruth arsenic their characters lasting beside a wall, echoing the archetypal play image.

The corp said that the 2024 Christmas peculiar sees Gavin and Stacey ‘looking for caller ways to spice up their 17-year marriage’, portion Nessa begins a caller concern venture.

It besides sees Rob arsenic Uncle Bryn getting his Citroen Xsara Picasso acceptable connected Barry Island successful Wales for a travel to Essex, arsenic his sister-in-law Gwen West has been ‘behaving astir strangely’, and Neil the Baby is acceptable to commencement an ‘apprenticeship with his dad’.

The BBC would not remark connected whether the begetter referred to is Smithy oregon Dave Coaches (Steffan Rhodri).

In Essex municipality Billericay, Gavin’s begetter Michael ‘Mick’ Shipman (Larry Lamb) is upsetting his uptight woman Pamela Andrea ‘Pam’ Shipman (Alison Steadman) arsenic she is astir to play hostess.

There volition besides beryllium continued marital problems for Peter Sutcliffe (Adrian Scarborough) and his wife, Dawn Sutcliffe (Julia Davis).

‘Join america connected the travel to Barry and Billericay arsenic we drawback up with the Shipmans and the Wests for the precise past clip and possibly find retired what precisely did hap connected that sportfishing trip,’ the corp said.

The amusement was co-created by Ruth and James, and the 90-minute peculiar is written and executively produced by them.

In September, the formed finished filming connected Trinity Street successful Barry Island, and waved goodbye to fans.

In a video antecedently shared to societal media, Ruth addressed the cheering assemblage for 1 past time, saying: ‘Thank you truthful overmuch for coming present contiguous and being truthful diligent due to the fact that you haven’t seen thing due to the fact that we’ve been indoors!

‘But it shows that you are existent committed fans of the amusement and we anticipation that you won’t beryllium disappointed connected Christmas Day erstwhile each volition beryllium revealed.’

She went on: ‘It’s our farewell to Barry and to Trinity Street.

‘You won’t beryllium seeing america present anymore. But we’ve had a fantastic 17 years. It’s been fantastic.’

‘Thank you precise overmuch for everything, we’ll spot you soon,’ James added.

The 2019 Christmas occurrence scored the highest overnight Christmas ratings successful 12 years, attracting an mean assemblage of 11.6 cardinal viewers, making it the biggest festive peculiar since Christmas Day 2008.

By the caller year, it had been viewed by 17.1 cardinal people, making it the biggest scripted programme of the decennary astatine the time.

Gavin and Stacey: The Finale volition aerial connected Christmas Day connected BBC One and iPlayer, with timings to beryllium announced soon.

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