Gavin’s family home is a house that is really in Dinas Powys while The Colcot Arms is a pub on Barry Island. James Corden based Smithy on his cousin’s friend, a man named Lee Andrews.

Gavin And Stacey star James Corden has said his character Neil ... a wedding he went to where all of the attendees were from Barry Island, where the show is set, and after a friend married ...

In May, James Corden posted a new picture with friend ... The show focuses on an Essex boy from Billericay and a Welsh girl from Barry Island, who fall in love from afar, and tracks how their ...

Gavin & Stacey creators James Corden and Ruth ... and Wales’ cultural impact.” Corden and Jones previously released the book Gavin & Stacey: From Barry To Billericay in 2008, shortly after ...