I told my family Gavin & Stacey ending despite secrecy vow, admits Page

GAVIN and Stacey star Joanna Page told her husband and mother straight away about the show's Christmas finale despite being sworn to secrecy.

- ROD MINCHIN

The mother-of-four, who played Stacey Shipman in the hit BBC comedy, said she had cried throughout the filming but remained calm while watching it with her family last Christmas Day.

She only burst into tears while watching the behind-the-scenes documentary Gavin and Stacey: A Fond Farewell. Page described sitting down with her family to watch last Christmas' finale with her family at their home in Oxfordshire.

"We all sat down and I can't actually believe we did it because I was really quite tense and what I really wanted to do instinctively was to say to everybody: 'Go away, I just want to sit in a room and watch it on my own,'" Page, who grew up in Swansea, said.

"But we all watched it together and it was just silent and nobody messed around. All you could hear was this sort of little crying from my mum kind of all the way through.

"Weirdly, I didn't cry through any of it watching it on Christmas Day even though I'd been crying so much all the way through.

"And it was only afterwards, round about new year when we watched the behind-the-scenes documentary, that really set me off and I just couldn't stop crying for that whole day then. It was borderline traumatic."