Monday, November 25, 2024

Coachella 2025 has unveiled its full lineup with Post Malone, Green Day and Lady Gaga

Post Malone, Lady Gaga and Green Day are headlining Coachella 2025. The annual festival will take place on April...

Latest Posts

Eternal announce first UK headline show in more than a decade

Eternal have announced their first UK headline show in more than a decade. The R'n'B girl group - comprising...

Charli xcx to headline her own ‘party girl’ festival in London next year

Charli xcx is set to put on her own festival, party girl, in London next year. The hyperpop superstar...

Lana Del Rey to headline Wembley Stadium as part of 2025 tour

Lana Del Rey has announced a 2025 UK and Ireland stadium tour. The 39-year-old singer will play London's Wembley...

Gary Barlow announces 41-date 2025 solo tour

Gary Barlow is set to embark on 'The Songbook Tour' in 2025. The Take That star has announced the...

Mathew Horne didn’t like Gavin and Stacey affair idea

Mathew Horne would have struggled to act out an affair on ‘Gavin & Stacey’.
The 41-year-old actor – who will reprise the role of Gavin Shipman alongside Joanna Page’s Stacey West in the beloved sitcom’s upcoming Christmas special – has admitted the potential plot considered by co-creators James Corden and Ruth Jones would have been too much of a stretch for viewers and the cast.
He’s quoted by the Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: "They decided it was too much and it would have been really hard to play that. I don’t think you’d believe Gav would stray."
In the end, Ruth, 53, and James – who also play Nessa and Smithy in the show – decided the idea just wasn’t right as they didn’t want to write in a major moment for the sake of the drama.
She explained: "We didn’t want to make it like a big explosion, we wanted to keep it as real as possible, true to the characters as possible.
"But also you have to have a narrative drive in there as well. We did take a while to decide.
"We were talking one day, ‘Is Gavin going to have an affair?’ and those ideas didn’t feel right with the show."
James, 41, recently agreed with the sentiment, and explained how the duo spent some time trying to get back to the root of the characters.
He said: "And then, in about 90 minutes, we wrote a scene between Gavin and Stacey that comes right in the middle of the episode.
"And as soon as we’d written that scene, we both got quite emotional because we thought, ‘There they are, there’s the characters we love’.
"After we’d written that scene, there was no option really. We just thought, ‘Right, we have to do this now.’ "

Latest Posts

Eternal announce first UK headline show in more than a decade

Eternal have announced their first UK headline show in more than a decade. The R'n'B girl group - comprising...

Charli xcx to headline her own ‘party girl’ festival in London next year

Charli xcx is set to put on her own festival, party girl, in London next year. The hyperpop superstar...

Lana Del Rey to headline Wembley Stadium as part of 2025 tour

Lana Del Rey has announced a 2025 UK and Ireland stadium tour. The 39-year-old singer will play London's Wembley...

Gary Barlow announces 41-date 2025 solo tour

Gary Barlow is set to embark on 'The Songbook Tour' in 2025. The Take That star has announced the...

Don't Miss

Cher confirms new album is in the pipeline

Cher has teased a new album is in the works. The 'Believe' hitmaker appeared on 'The Tonight Show Starring...

The Pogues announce first tour since Shane MacGowan’s death

The Pogues are set to embark on their first tour in more than a decade and since the death of frontman Shane...

Taylor Swift gave BLACKPINK star Rosé solo career advice

Taylor Swift offered her support to BLACKPINK star Rosé when she was "drowning a little” trying to establish her solo career.

Skrillex recalls meeting ‘absolute hero’ Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones once attended a Skrillex concert. The late music legend - who passed away on November 3, at...

Funeral For A Friend announce two special outdoor gigs for 2025

Funeral For A Friend have announced two huge outdoor gigs with an all Welsh lineup. The 'Streetcar' post-hardcore legends...

Stay in touch

To be updated with all the latest news, offers and special announcements.