{"id":781426,"date":"2026-09-24T20:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781426\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:14:13","slug":"gavin-and-stacey-stars-join-ruth-jones-for-60th-birthday-party-at-rafa-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781426\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin and Stacey stars join Ruth Jones for 60th birthday party at RAFA club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The private celebration was also attended by cast members Melanie Walters and Alison Steadman, as well as Steve Speirs, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cnv9z0epy7do\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">close collaborator of Jones&#8217;.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t realise how big of an event it was until the actual night when they were all coming through the door,&#8221; Prescott said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was quite overwhelming and unbelievable,&#8221; she said, adding it had been kept private and required careful planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prescott said Jones chose the venue because of its strong connection to her family, with both her parents long-standing members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She used to come here as a child and had her first guitar lesson at the RAFA club, so she does hold the club dearly,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The private celebration was also attended by cast members Melanie Walters and Alison Steadman, as well as Steve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781426","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\/781426","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=781426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}