Gavin & Stacey star Larry Lamb, who played Mick Shipman in the sitcom, has told fans "don't hold your breath" for a new Gavin & Stacey episode. The sitcom which shot to huge success after first airing in 2007, is written by Welsh actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones and James Corden and last aired in 2019 for a Christmas special.
Larry plays Gavin's dad Mick Shipman and was in Wales this week with TV presenter son, George promoting the latter's eco-friendly farming company, Wildfarmed, and was giving customers at Cardiff's Culverhouse Cross a taster of a new loaf of Marks & Spencer's bread. When asked if fans would see any more Gavin & Stacey anytime soon, Larry told us: “You never know…with people’s careers that are involved in that show, it would take them five years to gather everybody together so I wouldn’t hold your breath.”
He said he would appear in a new episode if there ever was one. He said: “Everybody would do it, we are all a part of something, until you kick it you are part of the team.”
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Larry also revealed that he is one percent Welsh, something he found out while filming for the ITV show DNA Journey. He said: “It’s strange coming back here especially as subsequently, I have discovered that I actually have 1% of Welsh genes in my blood.”
The star was spotted filming alongside Gavin & Stacey co-star Alison Steadman at the famous location of Gavin & Stacey, Barry Island, for DNA Journey. Larry spoke about what it was like to go back to Barry Island and film.
He said: “That was really funny in the afternoon, a sunny afternoon in the summer for Alison Steadman and I just to turn up with a film crew. [We had] A crazy warm welcome…people just didn’t believe it, they thought they were watching another episode of Gavin & Stacey being filmed.”
Larry and George are travelling around the UK promoting Wildfarmed's environmentally friendly farming techniques which regenerate soil. Wheat grown in this soil has been used for flour used by M&S in the store's bakeries to make 'planet-friendly sliced bread' - customers had a taste of the loaf
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