Following its debut in 2007, Gavin & Stacey has confounded the nation with one unanswerable question: what happened on the fishing trip?
After three seasons and three Christmas specials, we still don’t know, but according to James Corden and Ruth Jones, there was one telling scene which never made it into season three.
Speaking with the Daily Star, Corden revealed what happened between Bryn (Rob Brydon) and Jason (Robert Wilfort) in the forgotten clip.
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“We wrote this whole moment that Jason came into Bryn’s house,” he explained. “Bryn had been clearing out his loft and had found this camcorder tape that said ‘The fishing trip’.
“The idea was that they put it in. It’s all camcorder footage and then just at the moment that you think it’s going to go on, the tape fuzzes out and gets stuck in the video player.”
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A mystery which has long gripped viewers, Jones noted that she’s heard a lot of ideas from fans, who have discussed it in passing. “It’s amazing the theories that have come out,” she mused. “People say, ‘I think I’ve worked it out.’ It does make you go, ‘People’s minds are really strange’.”
“And quite dark!” added Corden. “If anybody ever asks me what happened, I say, ‘I have no idea, I wasn’t there’.”
Last Christmas, Gaving & Stacey returned with a festive special. Billed as the final episode of the franchise, fans came close to learning about the fishing trip once more, after Dave Coaches (Steffan Rhodri) was forced to tell his new girlfriend, Gwen (Melanie Walters), the truth.
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“From what I was told, it was cold,” he began. “The tent was up and the sun was down. The fire was blazing, and the soup was bubbling in the billy can and then…” he paused before the smoke alarm rang out, drawing the scene to a close.
During a press screening for the episode, Robert Wilfort said: “I’d like to say now and forever: the joke has always been you don’t find out what happens on the fishing trip!
“I’m sorry, everybody, but that has always been the joke, and it always will be because it’s funny. It’s funnier that way. And I was so pleased that we didn’t reveal it, because we’ve never known what it is.”
All episodes of Gavin & Stacey are available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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Megan is a freelance news reporter for Digital Spy.Â