Tidy! Star makes a surprise return as Nessa in new show

GAVIN & Stacey star Ruth Jones has reprised her role as Vanessa "Nessa" Jenkins for a new BBC programme.

- ELEANOR STOREY

The character makes a surprise appearance in Ruth And Steve: From Porthcawl With Love, in which Jones shows friend and fellow actor Steve Speirs around her home town on the Welsh coast.

Speirs, whose TV credits include The Tuckers and Upstart Crow, meets Nessa when he explores the Coney Beach amusement park with Jones.

Speaking at a screening of the programme in Porthcawl, he said: "I'd never acted with Nessa, and I think this is an absolute credit to the character that Ruth created, that when Ruth gets into all that gear, there's a massive metamorphosis.