Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones and James Corden reveal nerves ahead of final Christmas episode

Gavin and Stacey creators Ruth Jones and James Corden were left tearful on Wednesday night (December 18) as they spoke about their nerves ahead of the final Christmas episode of the show.

The pair spoke about bringing back their much-loved creation for one final time at the premiere of the BBC Christmas special. They admitted they were feeling 'particularly nervous' ahead of unveiling the culmination of their 17-year journey.

Asked for his thoughts on its continued success over three series and three Christmas specials since 2007, James said it might all come down to a 'lesson in patience', reports the Mirror.

"Particularly in TV, we talk about content and consumers and we talk about speed and we've decided that speed is the single most important thing in everything that you can do," he said.

"You get young people now watching things at twice the speed that it was ever meant to be formatted at - but here's a show that ended 15 years ago and we waited ten years to tell another hour of story and waited five more years to end it.

"Maybe the lesson for all of us, for people that write about television, for people that talk about television, for people that write television, is actually time and patience and care might be the answer for things to have a longevity."

Ruth, 58, said that part of the show's enduring popularity comes down to how it's stayed true to its roots. "I don't think we knew really what the show was when we wrote the very first episode," she said.

"We knew where we were going in terms of the narrative, that we would end episode six with a wedding, but we got to know the characters as we went along really. And I think what has remained throughout all of the episodes is this sense of love. Love between