James Corden has declared Gavin and Stacey ‘cannot carry on’ ahead of the final ever episode. The comedy series first hit screens in 2007 and followed Mathew Horne’s Gavin Shipman and Joanna Page’s Stacey West relationship as their families – from Essex and Barry Island– got to know each other.
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The show, which also starred creators Ruth Jones and James Corden as Nessa and Smithy, left fans with a cliffhanger with an unanswered proposal during the 2019 Christmas special. Next week the last episode will air, with James previously teasing it would be ‘hard to watch’, while Ruth ‘guaranteed we will definitely not be coming back’ after this.
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He’s now again made a statement that might leave fans heartbroken. ‘It can’t carry on, it genuinely can’t,’ he said. ‘And you’ll realise that there’s certain moments that happen in the episode, which make it very, very clear that the show cannot carry on.
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‘We as writers wouldn’t know how to carry on that story. We feel very, very proud of it. We’ve really given it everything we could have given it,’ he added when speaking to Fleur, James and Matt for a Hits Radio Christmas special. Speaking about working on the finale, James said it ‘came with a lot of pressure…the idea of being so definite and announcing that this is it, it’s going to end’.
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