It’s not just me and you,” Gavin (Mathew Horne) reminds Stacey (Joanna Page), perhaps superfluously. It never is with these two. More than an Essex boy meets Welsh valleys girl story, Gavin & Stacey has always been about the unlikely union of the couple’s meddlesome families and their respective best friends (played by series creators James Corden and Ruth Jones).

Gavin & Stacey fans have said they have “goosebumps” after watching the long-awaited final ever episode this evening (25 December). The show returned to BBC One with a 90-minute, one-off festive episode,

Gavin and Stacey first hit our screens in 2007, and 17 years later, it has finally drawn to a close in a heartwarming, clever, and funny episode that was well worth the wait. The series left viewers on a cliffhanger in the last episode,