THEY were one of TV comedy’s favourite couples as on-off lovers Nessa and Smithy and stole every scene in Gavin & Stacey.
But Ruth Jones says her sexual chemistry with co-star and co-writer James Corden was so non- existent off screen that they could never bring themselves even to make their characters kiss.
The closest they got to showing any lust was an innuendo-laced scene where Nessa and Smithy ramp up the sexual desire over KFC corn on the cob — and it remains one of the sitcom’s best loved moments.
Ruth recalled: “There is never ever a world in which me and James Corden would ever ever have been a couple, right? — we will happily say that about each other. “You’ll also notice that Nessa and Smithy have never kissed, because there is no way me and James could do it. “But the corn on the cob was such fun to do because we had to be so brimming with sexual desire and channelling this lust through it.
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