Door ‘not locked’ on more Gavin & Stacey episodes, says star

FANS of TV comedy show Gavin & Stacey could one day find out whether Smithy agrees to marry Nessa, according to co-writer Ruth Jones.

Last year’s one-off Christmas special finished on a cliffhanger when Jones’s character Nessa proposed to Smithy, played by James Corden.

Jones said the “door is closed but it’s not locked” on further episodes of the hit BBC show, which she wrote with Corden, who now hosts The

Late Late Show in the US.

She said there were no plans to put the West family, from Barry Island in South Wales, and the Shipman family, from Essex, back on television.

The hugely successful Christmas special drew an audience of 18 million and was the most-watched comedy show of the last decade.

The actor and writer said she was overwhelmed by the reaction to the special.

Jones was speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival to promote her new novel, Us Three, which tells the story of three women over decades of friendship.

Asked whether there would be further episodes of Gavin & Stacey, Jones replied: “Your guess is as good as mine; that’s the truth.

“All I can say is there are no plans at the moment, but then I say that and people go ‘Yeah, but you used to say that before and then you did suddenly announce...’

“I am telling you the truth – there are no plans at the moment to write any more.

“But, as I said to somebody the other day, the door is closed but it’s not locked.

“I don’t think it’s a case of us kind of going ‘We’re never going to do any more’ but it is a case of we really just don’t have the space.”