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Waitrose<\/p>\nWaitrose<\/p>\n
Joanna Page and Mathew Horne feature in the supermarket advert<\/p>\n
Gavin & Stacey stars Joanna Page and Mathew Horne have reunited for a Christmas special – but not the one fans hoped for.<\/p>\n
Instead, the pair – who played Stacey and Gavin Shipman in the hit TV series – appear in a short festive supermarket advert, enjoying a turkey pie while replying to a fan’s letter about showing love through food.<\/p>\n
The clip opens with Page jokingly referencing the show: “Oh, you didn’t think we’d let Christmas roll around without showing up again, did you?”<\/p>\n
The mini-episode, created with Waitrose, is part of the six-part How to Say It With Food series, where Page and Horne tackle some of the nation’s most common Christmas food dilemmas.<\/p>\n
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Waitrose<\/p>\n
Page and Horne said it was a “treat” working together again<\/p>\n
Although fans will not see Gavin and Stacey return to Barry or Billericay this year, they will still see the much-loved duo back on their screens.<\/p>\n
After Page’s Gavin & Stacey nod, Horne responds: “Us? Miss Christmas? Not a chance. But this time we’re here to help you say it with food.”<\/p>\n
They are handed an envelope from Santa containing a letter from a viewer asking how he can show his “leading lady” he loves her through food. <\/p>\n
Mathew joked: “First time saying it, you want a statement. Sixteenth time, you want a statement that doesn’t involve socks.”<\/p>\n
He then plays Waitrose’s new Christmas advert starring Keira Knightley and Joe Wilkinson, which follows an unlikely love story which sparks over Sussex Charmer cheese and ends with Wilkinson giving Knightley a turkey pie decorated with “I love you”.<\/p>\n
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BBC\/Baby Cow Productions\/Neil Bennett<\/p>\n
Gavin & Stacey was first broadcast in 2007<\/p>\n
Smiling at Horne, Page references another Gavin & Stacey moment: “Oh, that’s so romantic.”<\/p>\n
The pair are then given a turkey pie to try, with Horne diving in before cutting Page a slice – a moment that makes her laugh.<\/p>\n
The advert ends with the pair wishing viewers a Merry Christmas as they watch Knightley and Wilkinson share a warm festive kiss.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the advert, Page said: “You thought you’d seen the last of us! Well, we’re back and what fun we had.”<\/p>\n
She added: “it was such a treat working with Mat… food is what brings people together over the festive season.”<\/p>\n
Mathew Horne described it as “brilliant” to be back on set with Page, calling it “a Christmas tradition”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waitrose Joanna Page and Mathew Horne feature in the supermarket advert Gavin & Stacey stars Joanna Page and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-297988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297988","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=297988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}