Fans react to the ‘Gavin & Stacey’ finale: “perfection from beginning to end”

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Warning: spoilers aheadFans have been reacting to the Gavin and Stacey finale, after it aired yesterday (December 25).The highly-awaited episode came five years after the last special ended on a cliffhanger with Nessa proposing to Smithy.In the leadup to its premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer last night at 9pm, fans had been speculating what the future held for the couple.Ruth Jones and James Corden – who co-wrote the series together – had previously hinted that the pair may not end up together in the finale, with Jones saying” “I keep telling people this finale might not be what you are expecting, and I guarantee we will definitely not be coming back.”Corden added: “What people are going to see on Christmas Day is the culmination of a 20-year love story, which hopefully shows, if nothing else, that love is complicated and messy and for everyone.”When last night’s episode began, many fans were shocked to see Cordon’s Smithy planning a wedding with Laura Aikman’s Sonia, rather than Jones’s Nessa.However, the wedding ultimately didn’t go ahead when Mathew Horne’s Gavin interrupted the ceremony to tell his best friend he was making a mistake – which the entire party seemed to agree with.Smithy then leaves Sonia at the alter and rushes to meet Nessa before she departs on a boat from Southhampton.

There, he professes his love to her and proposes.“We’re messy and not perfect,” he told her, echoing Cordon’s aforementioned teasers. “But I love you Nessa and I always have,” he continued. “Well, not always, but most of the time… I love you, will you marry me?”To the delight of fans, she said yes, and the episode ended with a casual wedding with the series’ main stars in attendance.Viewers have since been reacting on social media,.