{"id":493251,"date":"2026-03-24T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493251\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:58:08","slug":"ruth-jones-gives-the-other-bennet-sister-cast-cracking-tour-of-barry-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493251\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Jones gives The Other Bennet Sister cast &#8216;cracking&#8217; tour of Barry Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cast members from BBC drama The Other Bennet Sister enjoyed a &#8220;cracking&#8221; day out in Barry Island while filming in Wales, courtesy of acting &#8220;legend&#8221; Ruth Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones, who plays Mrs Bennet in the drama series, arranged for Dave&#8217;s Coaches to pick up the actors for a trip to one of the locations featured in Gavin &amp; Stacey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She even reprised her role as Nessa at one point during the trip, cast member Ella Bruccoleri, who plays Mary Bennet, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002syjv\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Wales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bruccoleri said Jones went to the front of the bus where &#8220;she did a bit of a Nessa tour guide turn and then she sang to us as well &#8211; she sang a bit of Islands in the Stream &#8211; it was wonderful&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cast members from BBC drama The Other Bennet Sister enjoyed a &#8220;cracking&#8221; day out in Barry Island while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493251","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\/493251","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=493251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}