A star has revealed he doesn’t believe the upcoming special will mark .
The beloved comedy was first released in 2007 and followed ’s Gavin Shipman and Joanna Page’s Stacey West relationship as their families – from Essex and Barry Island respectively– also got to know each other.
The show, which also starred creators Ruth Jones and James Corden as Nessa and Smithy, initially wrapped up in 2010, in 2019 for a Christmas special.
It will now return for , with the show’s creators saying this will be the final time it’s seen on screens.
However now , who plays Mick Shipman, has said he doesn’t think this is really the end.
Instead, the actor, 77, has suggested James and Ruth will be unable to resist the temptation to revive the series down the line.
‘It’s like those old rock ‘n rollers who go round the world on their “last tour”,’ he told the newspaper.
‘What are you going to do, kill it? What’s the point? They’re too canny, those two.
‘We could be rocking this thing out when I’m about 104.’
His comments come after Larry recently described how filming the finale was ‘so emotional’ and had extra poignancy as the ‘beautiful’ closing scenes were shot during the last days of filming.
‘It was a trip down memory lane,’ he said during an appearance on Good Morning Britain last week.
‘Because suddenly there we are, and we’re facing the fact that effectively this is the end of this adventure – it’s the end of this journey and it was so emotional.’
He continued: ‘On the last day of filming, we were filming the end of the story which is so unusual because nine times out of ten you find that you’re doing the end on the first day and you’re doing the beginning right at the end of it all.
‘So, what we were filming was the end of the story on the very last day and there was just this mental tick, tick, tick going on all the time and the emotions just kept building and building and building … [the ending] is just beautiful.’
The BBC confirmed earlier this year that the Gavin and Stacey episode this Christmas would be the last ever.
Gavin and Stacey returns to the BBC on Christmas Day.
