Gavin And Stacey actresses Joanna Page and Ruth Jones have been pictured on set in Wales for “one last time”.
The BBC announced on Monday that filming had got under way for the sitcom’s last episode, which will air on Christmas Day this year.
The show’s co-creator James Corden, who plays Smithy in the series, posted a photo on Instagram that appeared to show Ms Page and Ms Jones facing away from the camera in front of O’Shea’s Fish & Chip Cafe on Barry Island, in character as Stacey and Nessa.
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Corden captioned the post: “Day two. One last time on the island.”
Joanna Page, who plays Stacey Shipman in the series, lives in south Oxfordshire.
On the first day of filming, the BBC shared a photo of a clapperboard, dated September 2, which said “Gavin & Stacey The Finale”.
The hit TV show aired for three series between 2007 and 2010 and made a comeback in 2019 for a one-off festive episode which ended on a cliff-hanger when Jones’ character Nessa proposed to Smithy.
Former chat show host Mr Corden, 46, announced the show’s return in an Instagram post on May 3 by sharing an image of him and Jones with a 2024 script titled Gavin And Stacey: The Finale.
Mr Corden revealed in July that he and Jones had finished writing the script for the final episode.
The actor told Chris Evans on his Virgin Radio breakfast show that he felt “very emotional by all of it” as he reflected on the show and his friendship with Jones.
“We’ve finished writing, we will never write anything that Pam says again,” he said.
“We will never come up with an interesting thing that Bryn has done.”
By the new year, it had been viewed by 17.1 million people, making it the biggest scripted programme of the decade at the time.
It went on to win the impact award at the National Television Awards in 2020.
Last year Ms Page appeared in a BBC medical drama called Men Up which focused on five Welshmen who took part in a medical trial for the drug Viagra.
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