{"id":149724,"date":"2025-09-20T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149724\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:30:07","slug":"gavin-and-staceys-joanna-page-says-she-was-groped-by-tv-host-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149724\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin and Stacey’s Joanna Page says she was groped by TV host"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the interview with The Times, external<\/a> the actress also spoke about when the role of Stacey Shipman came along and how she was working in a south London shoe shop.<\/p>\n

“It was the first time since leaving drama school I’d thought, ‘I know these voices! I know this world!'”<\/p>\n

“My mum is exactly the same as [Stacey’s mum] Gwen. If you’re miserable or upset, she’s like, ‘Do you want an omelette?’<\/p>\n

“Before I first went to London my uncle Anthony gave me a rape alarm, just like Stacey’s Uncle Bryn.<\/p>\n

“This part was mine. It was sacrilege if it went to someone else, who was either putting on an accent – although you’re allowed to do that, I have done my entire career – or they had famous parents, or they were just famous.”<\/p>\n

She added that had she not got the part she would have been “done with the whole thing”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the interview with The Times, external the actress also spoke about when the role of Stacey Shipman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-149724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}