James Corden and Ruth Jones admit they had creative differences over how Gavin & Stacey should end as they reveal the real reason it took so long to film the finale
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James Corden and Ruth Jones have admitted they had creative differences over how Gavin & Stacey should end. The Smithy and Nessa actors will be returning for one final episode on Christmas day and spoke on Friday's episode of The Graham Norton Show. They told on the show how they were at 'different places' with coming back for another episode but eventually came to an agreement on the ending.
![[The Smithy and Nessa actors will be returning for one final episode on Christmas day and spoke on Friday's episode of The Graham Norton Show]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/09/93347937-14213253-image-a-31_1734688640277.jpg)
Ruth, 58, said: 'Initially when the last episode went out, I was keen to follow it up and James wasn't, then he was keen and I wasn't. 'I think over the last few years we have been in different places with it. I was content to leave it on a cliffhanger, but then eventually we both landed in a place where we felt we owed it to fans of the show to finish the story.'.
![[They told on the show how they were at 'different places' with coming back for another episode but eventually came to an agreement on the ending]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/09/93347939-14213253-image-a-32_1734688646912.jpg)
James added: 'It was quite pressured and hard to think about how to make the end satisfying to the audience and to the characters. James Corden and Ruth Jones have admitted they had creative differences over how Gavin & Stacey should end. The Smithy and Nessa actors will be returning for one final episode on Christmas day and spoke on Friday's episode of The Graham Norton Show.
![[Gavin and Stacey fist aired on BBC Three in 2007 and spanned 20 episodes over the course of three series. As well as James and Ruth, it turned Mathew Horne and Joanna Page into household names]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/09/93348181-14213253-image-a-35_1734688672443.jpg)
'Ruth and I got together on our own and it was only when we thought we had a story – about 70 pages into a 100-page script – that we called the BBC.'. During the chat show appearance James, 46, added that it would definitely be the last ever installment of the show.
![[Fans were aghast when the show's previous festive special concluded with Nessa declaring her love for Smithy and proposing to him, but his answer was not revealed]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/20/10/93312647-14213253-image-a-47_1734689330142.jpg)
