Gavin & Stacey ‘in can’
HARRY LAD’S ‘STONED’ EYES JUST LIKE DAD
RUTH Jones says the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special is “in the can”.
The 53-year-old star and her co-creator James Corden reunited to bring back the BBC sitcom for a one-hour festive episode.
Ruth, who plays Nessa Jenkins in the show, said: “It’s all done and dusted, kippers and custard!
“It’s in the can, as they say. It was really good fun, it was a very smooth shoot.
“It was gorgeous to see everybody again.”
Ruth admits the reaction they got from the locals when they were shooting on location in the Welsh town of Barry was “insane”.
She added: “We had the best welcome ever. I just went in character and just talked to everybody like Nessa, which was great.” PUNDIT Harry Redknapp’s eldest son blamed “droopy eyes” inherited from his dad for a drug-driving arrest.
Mark Redknapp, 49, was pulled over by police in his Mercedes after leaving I’m A Celebrity winner Harry’s pad in Poole, Dorset, in April last year. He denies taking drugs. But a test found he had 749 micrograms of the cocaine derivative benzoylecgonine in his blood – 15 times over the legal limit for driving, Poole Magistrates yesterday.
Cops suspected drugged up because were “droopy” and cleaning his teeth tongue.
But Redknapp, 49, said: “Unfortunately having droopy, heavy eyes is a genetic condition – my father has them and so do I.”
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Redknapp, brother of exEngland star and Sky pundit Jamie, said that at the police station he had to endure a “humiliating” strip search.
He also said his blood was taken without consent, despite a fear of needles
Ex-England rugby player Paul Sackey said in a statement that he had never seen his pal of 10 years “do drugs”.
The trial continues.