Did Smithy say sure to Nessa?

Caution: Comprises spoilers.

The overall episode of Gavin and Stacey is in the end right here, with hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts tuning in to determine whether or not Smithy stated sure.

The hit BBC sitcom ended on an implausible cliffhanger in 2019 when Nessa, performed via Ruth Jones, were given down on one knee in entrance of Smithy, performed via James Corden, and requested him to marry her.

However what took place subsequent? Did he say sure?

After months of ready, Gavin and Stacey enthusiasts can in the end to find out, and now the forged has in the end spread out about what is going on within the remaining ever episode.

No – Smithy did not say sure to Nessa. If truth be told, he did not say anything else in any respect…

As a substitute, Smithy agreed to marry Sonia – that is proper, his female friend (now fiancée) who was once remaining noticed within the 2019 Christmas particular, performed via Laura Aikman.

“I known as Ruth and was once like, ‘I ponder whether shall we trick everyone into pondering that, for the primary six or seven mins, that they are simply going to look at a marriage that is between Nessa and Smithy’,” stated co-creator, James Corden.

This masterful twist left everybody pondering Smithy had stated sure… simplest to tug the rug out from below us.

“What was once in reality attention-grabbing, was once after the 2019 particular, all folks would say to us was once ‘What does he say?'” stated Corden.

“They’d by no means say, ‘Who did he make a choice?’ I do not even assume it was once in folks’s peripheral.”

“She stayed in several motels, she was once going into puts at the hours of darkness,” stated Corden, who defined the secrecy round Aikman’s involvement.

“She hasn’t even advised her ma and pa,” added Ruth Jones. “She hasn’t even advised them she’s in it.”

Following the episode, Aikman posted pictures of her circle of relatives learning about her go back – on the identical second as the remainder of the rustic – captioned “the instant my circle of relatives realise Sonia is ruining Christmas once more”.

The circle of relatives’s reaction, like most of the greater than 12m audience throughout the United Kingdom, was once screams of concern.

“It was once an implausible efficiency,” added Corden. “This is a nearly unattainable job that within the palms of anyone else could be a cool animated film, and I am hoping that she will get celebrated for what’s, I feel, a pitch-perfect efficiency.”

It seems to be as although we will by no means, ever to find out what took place at the fishing shuttle.

“I might like to mention now and perpetually – the shaggy dog story has all the time been that you do not to find out what occurs at the fishing shuttle!” stated Robert Wilfort, who performs Jason.

The long-running gag comes to an incident that took place between Uncle Bryn and Jason a few years in the past.

Sadly, the ones hoping to in the end to find out what took place will probably be upset.

“I am sorry everyone,” stated Wilfort. “However that has all the time been the shaggy dog story and it all the time will probably be as a result of it is humorous! It is funnier that manner. I used to be so happy that we did not expose it as a result of, we’ve got by no means identified what it’s.”

Alternatively, there may be one different one that is aware of what took place – Dave Coaches.

“Now that this ultimate, ultimate episode is out, expectantly folks can forestall asking me,” stated Steffan Rhodri, who performs Dave.

Even though Dave nearly blurted it out all over the finale, that is as shut as we are going to get.

“He’ll take that to his grave,” added Rhodri. “That was once the only likelihood you had been going to get to listen to it. And yeah, it is a type of that, it is a nice working gag that they created – I really like that. It is simply very becoming that not anything will ever be published.”

After performing a little shifty during the finale, Gwen published she has a boyfriend.

However no one was once anticipating it to be Dave Coaches.

“I believed no longer in one million years it might be Dave Coaches,” stated Melanie Walters, who performs Gwen.

“I believed it might be one in all Doris’ cast-offs,” she added.

“It really works does not it?” stated Wilfort. “They make an ideal couple. They do! After the preliminary surprise, they simply glance nice in combination.”

“You’ll in reality see why they are attracted to one another,” stated Rhodri, who performs Dave.

“Neatly, I have no idea. I will see why Dave could be interested in Gwen. I have no idea why Gwen could be interested in Dave.

“He isn’t an evident selection in all probability, however I feel possibly she wishes slightly bit of pleasure in her existence. He is clearly a vibrant personality, so why no longer?”

“Considered one of my favorite moments is when Dave is published,” Rhodri added.

Clearly, the circle of relatives are mortified, however Nessa, who is additionally there when he comes down the steps, responds in essentially the most Nessa-like manner conceivable.

“I beloved doing that scene and I believed it was once simply completely pitched that all of them see him and the circle of relatives, so Jason and Stacey and Bryn, are patently outraged and they are able to’t consider it,” stated Rhodri.

“Then Nessa simply is going ‘Alright, Dave?’ and Dave simply is going ‘Alright, Ness?’ and it is like, only a herbal factor – they each moved on a very long time in the past, so why no longer, you realize?”

“I have no idea what folks’s reactions will probably be, however as a result of Gwen’s so straight-laced, you realize, and any individual who is this kind of mumsy personality, I feel, expectantly folks will simply be excited for Gwen that she’s getting a little of pleasure in her existence.

“And Dave is in a position to supply that,” Rhodri added.

On the finish of the day, when all’s stated and executed, in fact he married her.

After ditching Sonia on the altar, Smithy runs off to seek out Nessa, however she’s already made up our minds to return at the ships to assist handle her damaged center.

Nessa is at Southampton docks about to depart, so Smithy and the remainder of the crowd package into Dave’s trainer and journey just like the wind.

“It was once nice – I used to be overjoyed,” stated Rhodri.

“I imply, it is all the time been a laugh enjoying the scenes with James, you realize, the connection between Dave and Smithy, from the first actual time when he meets him on the barn dance, you realize, and that is the reason all the time been a laugh.

“So, enjoying it now like, ‘you pass get her’, you realize, it was once nice a laugh,” he added.

Fortunately, he makes it there simply in time, as Nessa is boarding her send, and Smithy will get down on one knee and proposes to her. After all, she (ultimately) says sure.

An ideal distinction to Smithy’s ill-fated marriage ceremony with Sonia, the episode ends with Smithy and Nessa’s reception at a neighborhood pub.

“It was once beautiful as it did really feel like an actual marriage ceremony,” stated Jones. “Like an actual pub reception.”

That ultimate montage was once filmed at the very remaining day of manufacturing.

“It was once some of the emotional movie set I have ever been on and it was once more or less superb,” stated Corden.

“Such a lot of of our team had been with us from the very get started. It is a superb approach to shut all of it out on a Monday in Barry.”

The finale was once watched via 12.3 million folks remaining evening on BBC One.

This makes it the largest non-sports in a single day of 2024, with Wallace and Gromit 2d at 9.38 million.

The remaining Gavin and Stacey Christmas particular was once watched are living via 11.6 million. That determine grew to 18.4 million over the next 28 days with folks catching up on iPlayer.

The overall episode of Gavin and Stacey is now to be had to watch on BBC iPlayer.