It’s not just me and you,” Gavin (Mathew Horne) reminds Stacey (Joanna Page), perhaps superfluously. It never is with these two. More than an Essex boy meets Welsh valleys girl story, Gavin & Stacey has always been about the unlikely union of the couple’s meddlesome families and their respective best friends (played by series creators James Corden and Ruth Jones).

Standing outside his mobile dressing room in a car park on the outskirts of Cardiff, the co-creator of Gavin & Stacey is explaining why the sitcom is ending after 17 years. "Look, obviously there's lots we can't talk about.

The final episode of Gavin And Stacey gripped viewers as characters Smithy and Nessa finally got their happy ending, five years on from the Christmas proposal cliffhanger. The festive special kicked off in both Billericay and Barry as the family of Stacey Shipman (Joanna Page) and her husband Gavin (Mathew Horne) prepare for a wedding – presumed