Ruth Jones, who plays the iconic Nessa Jenkins in the hit BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey has said fans “will understand” why the show’s Christmas special will be the last episode of the entire series.
Without giving too much away, she confirmed in an interview shown on Lorraine on December 20, just days before it is set to air on December 25, that people will understand why it is the last episode of the series when they watch it, hinting that something big must happen in the finale.
When asked: “Is it the last one?”, Ruth replied: “Well, yeah. It has to be. When you see it you’ll understand why.” For the latest TV & Showbiz news, sign up to our newsletter
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Ruth also said in the same interview: “You will also see another area of employment that Nessa is very au fait with. But yeah she’s had a very, very colourful work history.”
When asked what it was like when the cast received the script, Ruth added: “The best reaction was from Joanna Page. She pulled into a service station to read it.
Joanna was voice-noting Ruth all the way through reading the episode which Ruth described as the “funniest thing.”
Co-writer of the show James Corden who plays Smithy also confirmed that he will be watching the final episode with Ruth, noting: “Our families will be watching it together. We watched the last special together. There’s no one else I could really watch it with.”
Confirming that this was the final ever episode, Joanna also said on Morning Live on Friday, December 20: “It is the last last ever one it has been so emotional, just saying goodbye to everybody… When I read the script and I saw that my first… I nearly, you nearly got me to say something then! But I saw that I’m sitting with Ruth, she’s playing the mouth organ and I’m in the rickshaw at the back, I was just like ‘oh we are back with a bang!’ this is brilliant.” You can read more about this moment here.
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