Joanna Page 'doubts' she will be in Ruth Jones and James Corden's post-Gavin and Stacey TV project
Ruth Jones and James Corden are reportedly creating an eight-part comedy series called The Choir for Apple TV+, but their Gavin and Stacey co-star Joanna Page does not think she will be cast in their show.
Joanna Page "doubts" she will be a part of Ruth Jones and James Corden's post-Gavin and Stacey TV project.
The BBC comedy series - which starred the trio - ended after a total of 17 years in December 2024, and it has been reported that Ruth and James, who wrote Gavin and Stacey, have teamed up once again to create an eight-part comedy show called The Choir for Apple TV+.
Deadline reported that The Choir would focus on estranged siblings Ben (Corden) and Lisa (Jones), with Ben - who has been living abroad - travelling back to a small English town where Lisa lives and is made to "return to a life he never wanted" in the town he did not like.
And Joanna - who played titular character Stacey Shipman in Gavin and Stacey - thinks Ruth, 59, and James, 47, would not cast her in the show so that the duo can separate The Choir from Gavin and Stacey.
Joanna, 48, told the new issue of Closer magazine: "I just think they are really, really lovely. I'm very excited to see what the next new thing is going to be.
"Because I'm so well-known from Gavin and Stacey and that whole bubble, I doubt very much that they'd want to bring that into something else.
"But obviously, my God, I would love to work with them again because they are so much fun."
The star said filming Gavin and Stacey: The Finale - which raked in over 20 million viewers when it aired on Christmas Day 2024 - was tough.
Joanna - who has daughters Eva, 12, and Boe, three, and sons Kit, 10, and Noah, eight, with her husband, 49-year-old actor James Thornton - explained: "The ending of Gavin and Stacey felt like a massive line was drawn underneath this one whole part of my life.
"It was there as a backdrop throughout my family, marriage and entire life up until this point.
"When I first got the script for the finale, I remember thinking, 'How the hell am I going to film this?'
"It was this grief ... it's a whole journey I've been on - nearly 20 years."
The actress - who also starred in Gavin and Stacey with the likes of Mathew Horne (Gavin Shipman), Larry Lamb (Mick Shipman), Rob Brydon (Uncle Bryn West) and Julia Davis (Dawn Sutcliffe) - cannot watch Gavin and Stacey without crying.
Joanna explained: "I find it quite painful now watching bits. It's just a sense of this shared history.
"Although it's lovely because we'll all see each other again, you don't often get jobs coming along like that where you all genuinely become a family.
"It was just beautiful."
