Gavin and Stacey star 'terrified' over script secrets

Joanna Page, who plays the character Stacey, says she has finally received the Christmas special script

Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page has said she has seen the script for the show's final episode - but is worried about giving the game away.

"I finally have got the script," she told BBC Radio Wales on Saturday.

"I’m so terrified – it was fine at first, before we got the script, because I could be asked stuff and I’d be like: ‘Well, I genuinely don’t know’.

"Now I know, I am so frightened in anything I say that it’s sort of best to just not say anything at all. I’m terrified.”

Gavin and Stacey co-creators Ruth Jones and James Corden announced earlier this year that the show would return for one final episode, to be broadcast on Christmas Day.

The sitcom first debuted on BBC Three in 2007, running for three series as well as two Christmas specials.

The last episode in 2019 ended on a cliff-hanger when Nessa, played by Jones, proposed to Smithy, played by Corden.

When asked what she thought about whether or not they got married, actress Page - who plays Stacey - would not be drawn.

“My lips are sealed,” she said. “I will not be drawn on anything at all.”

She also would not reveal whether viewers would ever find out what happened on the fishing trip.

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“I’m the same as everybody else,” she said. “I’m like, 'oh my gosh, what’s going to happen?'

"I’ve been waiting five years, you know.”

Page, who is currently filming a new series alongside Wynne Evans exploring the Welsh coastline, said it was during a break from filming the series that she finally received the Gavin and Stacey script.

“It was about seven o’clock at night, and I was thinking, ‘oh my gosh, are they gonna send it? Are they gonna send it?'

"Because they had sent a message saying that they had now finished it, and I was in the services and suddenly I looked at my phone.

"I was waiting for my burger to come through, I was really tired as well, and I looked down at my phone, I thought ‘Oh, I wonder if it’s there?’ and suddenly it flashed up and the script had arrived.

"I looked around – it was quite surreal. And I thought, ‘I’m standing here in the services, waiting for my burger, and everybody else is ordering, and on my phone right now I have got something on here that everybody would love to know what’s going on’.”

Page was recently spotted in Barry - the Vale of Glamorgan town where much of Gavin and Stacey is set and filmed - while filming her new show with Evans.

She took the opportunity to visit Marco’s cafe, where her character Stacey had a job in series three.

"I haven’t been in Barry for years and years and years, unless I’ve been filming," she said.

"So, you know on the side of Marco’s cafe where he’s got [photos of] all of us... I’ve never seen that because they take it down every time we film.

"So when we got there, I was like ‘oh my gosh, can I have a photo with myself?’"