James Corden has emotionally declared that he’s penned ‘Gavin and Stacey’ for the last time.

The 45 year old star, alongside his writing partner Ruth Jones, earlier this year announced a final festive special of the much-loved comedy series set to air on BBC this Christmas Day.

The former ‘Late Late Show’ host, appearing on ‘The Chris Evans Breakfast Show’ on Virgin Radio, confessed that the gravity of concluding the show had just sunk in, admitting: “Last night we were like ‘oh that’s it now. We’ve finished. We’ll never write anything that Pam says again.”

“We’ll never write interior Gwen’s house. We’ll never come up with an interesting thing that Bryn’s done. We just looked at each other and we were like ‘wow – isn’t that amazing?'”.

Earlier in the month, Corden revealed that he and Jones were tweaking the script, juggling their busy schedules due to their stage work. Chatting on Capital Breakfast, he explained: “It’s written right but now we’re doing rewrites. So we have to, we have to remove some time, we have to change some bits around.”

“So we’ve been doing that, it’s quite tough because Ruth’s in ‘Sister Act’ over in the West End at the minute, and I’m doing ‘The Constituent’ at the Old Vic.”

“So we’ve been doing quite a bit of writing in dressing rooms and things like that. And then both looking at each other being quite tired from the plays but we’ll be back at it tomorrow. Back at it Friday. I hope by Friday…it will be done and finished this Friday.”

The duo decided to create a final episode of the show – which first aired in 2007 and concluded in 2010, but made a comeback for a festive special nine years later – following James’ return to the UK from the US after his stint as host of ‘The Late, Late Show’ on CBS.

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