gavin and stacy xmas 1

James Corden gives exciting update on Gavin and Stacey's return 

We can't leave it on the Smithy and Nessa cliffhanger forever!

TV & Film Editor
May 13, 2021

James Corden has given a very promising update about the future of Gavin and Stacey - and we're delighted to hear it! The 2019 Christmas special ended up a major cliffhanger as (spoiler alert) Nessa proposes to Smithy, leaving viewers desperate to find out what his answer would have been. 

MORE: Gavin and Stacey star gives update on show's final special

Chatting on Thursday's Zoe Ball Breakfast Show about the future of the show, he said: "As it stands right now, there aren’t any plans to do one, but that’s not to say that there isn’t the want or the inclination to do one… that special... it’s so open-ended that I think it would be a shame to leave it there. That’s certainly my feeling and I think Ruth feels the same." We feel the same too James!

WATCH: Ruth Jones reveals when she and James Corden will start writing new episodes

He continued: "It doesn’t feel like the end of a book, it feels like the end of a chapter, so I do feel like if we ever did another one that would be the end of it… But with the last one, that’s why we wrote it without telling anyone. We’d finished it before we called the BBC because we just didn’t want to make anything that would in any way let everybody down. 

MORE: Gavin and Stacey's James Corden and Ruth Jones break silence over show's future

MORE: Gavin and Stacey star Larry Lamb just gave a major update on show's return

"And so my hunch is no-one will ever know if it’s coming until we’ve got it, but we haven’t had a single conversation about it… we also can’t write separately, we’re terrible at it because they’re part-writing sessions and part therapy sessions really.

Would you like more episodes?

"It feels sometimes like we open a portal, there are all these characters in Barry Island, then slowly but surely these ideas present themselves and we just happen to be the two that write them down, you know." 

Like this story? Sign up to our newsletter to get other stories like this delivered straight to your inbox.

Sign up to Off Camera for all the gossip and goings-on from the wonderful world of TV and film

Email Address

By entering your details, you are agreeing to HELLO! Magazine User Data Protection Policy. You can unsubscribe at any time. For more information, please click here.

More TV and Film

See more