James Corden fights back tears as he gives huge update on Gavin and Stacey Christmas special

JAMES Corden fought back the tears as he gave a huge update on the highly-anticipated Gavin and Stacey Christmas special.

The BBC comedy’s return to our screens was confirmed in May.

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Writers and stars of the show – James and Ruth Jones – shared the news on social media with a picture of them holding the script.

Yesterday James appeared on Virgin Radio’s The Chris Evans Breakfast Show and mentioned the upcoming episode.

He said: “Last night we were like ‘oh that’s it now. We’ve finished. We’ll never write anything that Pam says again.

“We’ll never write interior Gwen’s house.

“We’ll never come up with an interesting thing that Bryn’s done.’

“We just looked at each other and we were like ‘wow – isn’t that amazing?'”

Gavin and Stacey hit our screens in 2007.

The comedy has had three successful series and ended in 2010.

Fans were delighted when they were treated to a Christmas special in 2019.

Now they haven’t got long to wait until the second.

James and Ruth posted a picture of themselves with the script which had printed on it “Gavin and Stacey: the finale”.

James – who plays Smithy in the show – wrote on Instagram: “Some news… It’s official!!! We have finished writing the last ever episode of Gavin and Stacey.

“See you on Christmas Day, BBC One. Love Ruth and James.”

Matthew Horne, Joanna Page, Larry Lamb, and Alison Steadman will be back on our screens to reprise their roles.

However there is one original cast member who won’t be – Lewis Merchant who played baby Neil.

The youngster, who appeared on the programme as Smithy and Nessa’s baby 16 years, has just finished his GCSEs.

“I was in an acting company but I don’t do that anymore,” he explained.

“I just lost interest mainly, because I found I loved football and I preferred to do that when I was a bit younger, that was the main reason I stopped.”

Earlier this month James also gave an update on the episode.

Speaking on Capital Breakfast, James said: “It’s written right but now we’re doing rewrites. So we have to, we have to remove some time, we have to change some bits around.

“So we’ve been doing that, it’s quite tough because Ruth’s in Sister Act over in the West End at the minute, and I’m doing The Constituent at the Old Vic.

“So we’ve been doing quite a bit of writing in dressing rooms and things like that. And then both looking at each other being quite tired from the plays but we’ll be back at it tomorrow. Back at it Friday. I hope by Friday…it will be done and finished this Friday.”

Gavin and Stacey best moments

Gavin and Stacey's Best Moments

With the news that the show is set to make an exciting return to screens, let's take a look at some of the comedy programme's biggest and best moments...

• Smithy and Rudi’s American Boy rap – No one will ever forget when James Corden and Sheridan Smith rapped perfectly word for word Kanye West and Estelle hit American Boy as they walked across the car park on the phone to Gavin.
• Pam’s Vegetarian faux pas – Despite loving a cheeseburger, Pam found herself caught up in a web of unexpected lies when she claimed to be a Vegetarian. She is forced to keep up the secret throughout the entire show and uses hubby Mick to help her scoff meat. She is later rumbled when Stacey catches her in the act as she scoffs ham in the kitchen. Stacey says to her: “Is that ham, Pam!?… “I’ve seen you, Pam. A scotch egg here, a bit of bacon there, putting those regular sausages into the Linda McCartney box”.
• THAT fishing trip – It remains one of the biggest mysteries in Gavin and Stacey’s history as to just exactly what happened on the ill-fated fishing trip. Bryn appears to be hiding a secret as to an occurrence between him and his nephew Jason which has left relations fractures. Ness’ on-off boyfriend, Dave, is the only other person to know the whole truth. Bryn did appear to allude to him and Jason lying together naked to keep warm as he said to Dave: “We’re going to have this out, once and for all, man to man, you may know what happened, David, but you don’t know why it happened! It was freezing cold, it was! And when you are that cold…”
• Islands in the Stream – No one can ever forget the classic Karaoke performance of Islands in the Stream. Nessa and Bryn performed the track in front of all their nearest and dearest. It saw the whole pub burst into some line-dancing as they enjoyed a boozy night out.
• The Xmas special proposal – In 2019, fans were left overjoyed when the show made a comeback but it ended on the ultimate cliffhanger. Nessa asked Smithy if she would marry him as she finally laid bare her feelings for him. Fans were gutted as the show then cut straight to the credits as they never found out just how Smithy answered. Will it all be revealed in the brand-new episode?