Gavin and Stacey’s Larry Lamb asks fans to ‘keep up the pressure’ for a fourth series

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Larry Lamb

by William Marriott |
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Ever since the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special aired on Christmas Day, the nation has not been the same since.

Social media went crazy, rating figures went through the roof and we had a whole plate of nostalgia straight after our festive feast.

But will there ever be a fourth series? Well, no one has any idea, except the show's writers James Corden and Ruth Jones.

And while Ruth has hinted she'd like to write more, James is now one of the most famous men in Hollywood, after he swapped Britain for LA to host his own talk show.

However, Larry Lamb, who play's Mick in the hit BBC show, has asked fans on Twitter to "keep up the pressure" so that James and Ruth are essentially forced into writing another series.

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Here's what the cast of Gavin and Stacey are doing now... SLIDER with cover pic

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Gavin

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Mathew Horne - a.k.a Gavin, then

Viewers saw Mathew's character, Gavin, fall in love with Stacey pretty quickly - he drove all the way to Barry to surprise her after their night together. We saw the couple laugh, row and welcome a baby. N'aww.

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And this is him now...

Mathew's come a long way from playing good ol' Gav - he's now playing Young Mr Grace in Are You Being Served and continues to collaborate with James Corden on a number of projects which included hosting The Brits in 2009.

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Joanna Page - a.k.a Stacey, then

Joanna smashed it as Stacey; the bubbly girl from Barry who got engaged five (yes, five) times before she met the love of her life Gavin. Bless her.

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And this is her now...

Similar to her character Stacey, Joanna settled down in real life too and is now mum to three children - a daughter, Eva, and her two sons, Kit and Noah.

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James Corden - a.k.a Smithy, then

Err, James Cordon as Smithy was absolutely hilarious tbh. He kept us entertained with his dancing, love for Gavin and love/hate relationship with Nessa.

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And this is him now... (along with the star of one of his majorly successful Carpool Karaoke's, Selena Gomez)

Do we really need to fill you in on this one? No, probably not, because he's everywhere. But incase you've been in hiding under a rock for the past few years, James has been doing pretty much EVERYTHING and has a majorly successful US TV programme - The Late Late show.

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Ruth Jones - a.k.a Nessa, then

Oh, what's occurring? Need we say more? Ruth was brilliant as Nessa; fierce and hilarious and as much as we saw how happy she was with Dave, we always knew Smithy was the one that truly had her heart.

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And this is her now...

She is arguably one of the funniest Welsh people to have ever lived, and since Gavin and Stacey Ruth has lived in Cardiff with her husband and three grown-up stepchildren.The actress has also been appointed an MBE - go Ruth!

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Larry Lamb - a.k.a Mick Shipman, then

Larry is a prime example of a good actor. Despite seeing him play Archie Mitchell in EastEnders, we couldn't help but fall in love with Mick from Essex. Unlike Archie Mitchell, Mick actually loved his family...

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And this is him now...

Since Gavin and Stacey, Larry has embarked upon all kinds of work; he appeared in New Tricks and I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! alongside Scarlett Moffatt.

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Alison Steadman - a.k.a Pamela Shipman, then

Alison's character Pam was probably the most iconic of them all. We loved her that she made to pretend to be a vegetarian up until the Christmas special where she finally told everyone she was eating meat - they all (minus Gwen) knew.

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And this is her now...

Since Gavin and Stacey ended, Alison has appeared in Orphan Black in 2015 and currently lives in Highgate, London with her partner Michael Elwyn.

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Rob Brydon - a.k.a Bryn West, then

Ahh, Rob as Bryn was an absolute classic. There's so many hilarious moments of him to choose from but whenever we think of him our first thought is, of course, the Gavin and Stacey fishing trip...

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And this is him now...

Long gone are the days of Bryn as a humble telly actor. Rob has since gone on to star in Hollywood movies including The Huntsmen: Winter's War (he played Gryff) and he played Master Phineus in the real life version of Cinderella.

Tweeting to his followers, the actor wrote, "Well just to say how happy we all are that the show was as well received as we all guessed it would be ... and thrilled to bits even so !! LoL.

"Thanks so much for every one of the glorious reviews .. you’ve really made my Christmas..the hard work we all put in clearly appreciated by everyone!!"

The former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! campmate then responded to a fan who wrote, "Please convince @RuthJonesNews& @JKCorden to do another series !! U were all fantastic- as usual xxx" and he said, "Just keep up the pressure!!"

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This year's Christmas epsiode picked up 10 years after we last saw all our favourite characters.

The Essex crew (Pam, Mick, Gavin and Smithy) were heading to Gwen's for Christmas Day where Uncle Bryn was cooking everyone's meal.

But it was the cliffhanger ending which shocked the nation as Nessa proposed to Smithy and the programme ended.

Cue a nationwide gasp.

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