Kynoch David Lee says

Hi Fans of Gavin and Stacey,
They are filming down at Porthkerry Caravan Park not far from Barry and close to Cardiff Airport, yes they are filming from today [15th June]  until Wednesday [17th June] hope this will be of use to you FANS out there, take care if you are travelling we do not want anything to happen to you so to deprive you of watching the show, God Bless.

James Corden says that he and Ruth Jones, the creators of Gavin and Stacey, cried when they finished writing the final episode.

“It’s an emotional time because we’re saying goodbye to these characters that we love.

“So the whole thing is very sad and I just hope it can be as good as possible.”

“I just hope it’s good enough.”

Filming of the third and final series starts on 15th June.

DigitalSpy reports
Rob Brydon has revealed that he has been learning the new Gavin & Stacey scripts with his wife.
“Start rehearsing Gavin & Stacey next week,” he said. “Very funny scripts. Acted one out for my wife last night, playing all parts. A triumph.”

Meanwhile, Darling Buds Of May actress Pam Ferris is rumoured to have joined the cast as Smithy’s (James Corden) mum.

The Star is reporting

COMEDY star James Corden is to marry blonde lover Sheridan Smith.

We haven’t seen this reported anywhere else, but if it’s true, we are over the moon. Although the idea of Smithy and Rudi Smithy getting it on is a bit weird, it might make an interesting storyline for James and Ruth to add to the new series!

In the same story The Star confirms

James is due to start filming a new series of BBC Three comedy Horne & Corden with his pal Mat Horne the week after next.

UPDATE: Now magazine says

James Corden’s rep has rubbished reports the star’s to wed his girlfriend Sheridan Smith.

Starting on Monday, April 27th until Saturday, May 2nd they’re giving away the complete first series of hit BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey on DVD for FREE.

To claim your free copy of Gavin and Stacey on DVD simply go to your nearest Tesco stores and hand in the voucher printed in the Sun newspaper.

Alternatively, you can collect all your vouchers and post them along with postal coupon we will be printing from Monday, May 4 with a cheque for £4.99 to cover the cost of postage.

For you nearest store go to check out the Tesco store locator

More bad news this morning I’m afraid. As reported in The Sun

The new series of Gavin and Stacey has been cut from seven to six episodes.

James Corden and Ruth Jones — who write the comedy hit and star as Smithy and Nessa — are too busy to make the full run.

The Bafta-winning pair said they need the time to work on other projects.

Hopefully they can put extra funny in them to compensate

According to the Stage

Matthew Horne and Imelda Staunton will not be returning to the stage for tonight’s performance of Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Tragalgar Studios.

Producers have confirmed that the two lead actors of the show have caught a virus and will be unable to perform tonight.

According to the Guardian

Actor Mathew Horne collapsed on stage during a matinee performance of Entertaining Mr Sloane in London today.

Fellow actor Simon Paisley Day called for doctors in the house at Whitehall’s Trafalgar Studios as Horne lay prone for 10 minutes before paramedics arrived, reports suggested.

UPDATE

According to the BBC

Horne fell to the floor in the middle of a scene where he lay for 10 minutes before paramedics arrived to take him to hospital. He was later released.

His spokesman said he collapsed after working flat out for three months.

According to Sky News

The next series of Gavin and Stacey will be the last ever, according to the show’s creator, James Corden.

The comedy actor told Sky News’ Steve Hargrave that he is currently writing the third series with co-star Ruth Jones but said: “This is it. This will definitely be the last series. We have a point to which we are working to and that will be the end.

“It will be sad but it has been a great time for everyone involved”.

The final series will begin shooting in the Summer.

IT’S not the first time that Robin Gibb has teamed up with Barry.

But this time the Bee Gee has ditched his brother to team up with an unlikely pair from the Welsh town – Gavin and Stacey’s Uncle Bryn and Nessa.

The trio, along with Sir Tom Jones, have come together to record this year’s Comic Relief single, a cover version of the Bee Gees’ Islands in the Stream.

Bryn and Nessa – or their real-life counterparts, Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones – were yesterday at the London launch of the 2009 Red Nose Day campaign launch, along with co-star Joanna Page and a host of names from the world of comedy and music.

Sir Tom and Gibb serve as backing singers on the single, which will be available for download from March 8. They were thousands of miles apart when they laid down the tracks for the song, which was made famous by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, but more recently heard in the hit series as the characters performed at a barn dance.

Brydon and Ruth Jones travelled to the World Karaoke Championships in Las Vegas to film the video for the song and Jones admitted that recording the single had been something of a personal milestone.

The Porthcawl-born star said: “People really loved it when we did it in the series and they were saying ‘go and release it as a single’. We couldn’t quite bring ourselves to do it in all seriousness so we thought what a brilliant way to raise some money and do it for Comic Relief. We’ve none other than Sir Tom Jones appearing in our video.

“We filmed it in Vegas in November and it was one of the best experiences of my whole career. Recording a single with Tom Jones, it really doesn’t get any better than that.”

Brydon was just as starstruck, saying: “Tom Jones is just a legend. He’s on the single, he acts in the video. He acts really well. He’s like he’s in The Sopranos. He’s so cool. We were stood in the desert with him and he was telling us these stories about Elvis.

For Ruth and I it was just like we had died and gone to heaven. Quite seriously, it was the most enjoyable thing I’ve ever done in my career.”

It would seem that Brydon’s impersonation of Tom Jones was so good, it fooled the man himself. “When we met him in Las Vegas he said ‘there was a tricky bit at the end (of the song) where they used you’,” said Brydon. “He thought that part of the song where he was singing was me. It doesn’t get better than that.”

Pontypridd-born Sir Tom has a lot to live up to with the previous Comic Relief singles, most of which have reached the number one spot, from the famous Tony Christie and Peter Kay’s “Is This the Way to Amarillo” to Hale and Pace and The Stonkers’ best-forgotten “The Stonk”. Sir Tom himself last had a number one single 43 years ago, with The Green Green Grass of Home.

by Lisa Jones, Western Mail