THE Gavin and Stacey Christmas special was meant to end with a cheat scandal but the plot was scrapped amid rumours of a fourth season.
Creators Ruth Jones and James Corden have revealed they considered having Mat Horne’s character Gavin cheat on his wife Stacey (Joanna Paige).
But Ruth, 53, admitted: “It didn’t feel right with the show.”
Mat, 41, added: “They decided it was too much and it would have been really hard to play that.
“I don’t think you’d believe Gav would stray.”
The sitcom was last on our screens in 2010 and Ruth certainly felt a pressure to get the storyline right after a decade off air.
She explained: “We obviously wanted to take it 10 years on but didn’t want to sensationalise it and have something major happen.
“We didn’t want to make it like a big explosion, we wanted to keep it as real as possible, true to the characters as possible.
“But also you have to have a narrative drive in there as well.
“We did take a while to decide. We were talking one day, ‘Is Gavin going to have an affair?’ and those ideas didn’t feel right with the show.”
Ruth previously revealed how writing struggles with James nearly derailed the Christmas special.
She said: “When we actually reached the point when we were able to announce it, it was such a huge relief because it had been such a big journey to get to that point.
“It wasn’t easy that week because, bearing in mind we hadn’t written it for years and years.
“We’d had ideas for characters, lines of dialogue, going back and forth, but we hadn’t sat down and written a script.
“We weren’t match fit anymore, where before we’d written series after series, three series’ in a row.
“And you know James and I hadn’t spent that much time together. We’d seen each other and spoken together, but we hadn’t sat down and written for a long time. So there was a lot at stake.”
The Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special airs on Christmas Day at 8.30pm.
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