Turn the clock back just a few months and Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon were dismissing speculation of another episode of Gavin & Stacey as just another rumour.
Earlier this year, there were claims of a new episode in the works to be filmed this summer and released as a Christmas special, but Jones said it was 'sadly a rumour', while Brydon appeared to shut down speculation as well.
However, not long ago we got the ridiculously good news that it wasn't just a rumour after all, and we'd be getting another dollop of Gavin & Stacey over the festive period.
Jones and Brydon have since discussed having to pretend the episode they were working on was just rumours cooked up from somewhere, as they chatted on the Brydon & podcast.
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Ruth said she was 'very sad that it got leaked' as she and co-creator James Corden had been working on the episode 'since September'.
She said any talk of Netflix getting into a bidding war with the BBC for the new episode was 'absolute rubbish' and confirmed that the episode we're getting will be the finale of Gavin & Stacey, so don't expect any more returns.
Since it sounds like there won't be any more of the show after this coming episode, Jones has been having fun playing with fans who are desperate for spoilers.
Obviously the way to know what's going to happen is to either be one of Ruth Jones or James Corden, or be among the cast who get to film the thing.
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The rest of us are just going to have to sit it out until Christmas and see what happens, but that hasn't stopped some folks from pestering Jones to drop a spoiler or two.
She told Brydon that while she was working on the Sister Act musical, people keep bugging her for spoilers, so she's developed a countermeasure in the form of telling fans that most of the characters are going to die horribly.
"They’ll say 'I’m the biggest Gavin and Stacey fan' or 'thank you so much for this Christmas special' or 'You must be so excited, I can’t wait til Christmas'," Jones explained of the massive amount of interest in this one final episode.
"A couple of people at the stage door, say 'What’s going to happen, is Smithy going to say yes?'.
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"And I go to them, 'Do you seriously want me to tell you what’s going to happen in the Christmas Special?' And they go 'yes!'.
"And I go 'but you don’t, because what happens on Christmas Day when you come to watch it, you’ll know what’s going to happen.' And they go, 'please tell me'.
"So, I go 'there’s going to be helicopter crash, most of the cast are going to get killed', and I just make stuff up!"
Given that the script Jones and Corden posed with advertises this upcoming episode as 'the finale' it's going to be the chance to wrap everything up and say they'll never return to the series.
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With that in mind you'd hope that Jones really is joking about the episode killing off some characters, because you never know if she's pulling the audacious play of telling the truth and expecting not to be believed.
Topics: Gavin And Stacey, TV and Film, BBC, Celebrity, James Corden
Joe Harker