Larry Lamb: 'Gavin And Stacey will return'

Larry Lamb: 'Gavin And Stacey will return'
Larry Lamb: 'Gavin And Stacey will return' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Larry Lamb is convinced Gavin and Stacey will return when the third series ends. The 62-year-old actor - who plays Gavin's father Mick in the BBC comedy written by Ruth Jones and James Corden - said at the British Comedy Awards he doesn't believe the current series is the last fans will see of the hit characters. Larry said: "It's not coming to an end you know - they won't write any more series, but I bet they write some one-offs. I bet you - prediction." Asked how he would feel to work on the show agai,n he said: "Lovely, I can't wait." Larry plays evil Archie Mitchell in EastEnders, who is due to be killed off in the soap, but revealed he will be keeping himself busy. He said: "I'm doing a one-man show. I'm going around the country with a one-man show. Larry Lamb bangs on about his life, so how I finished up being an actor really. "And a couple of TV things - I've just done a thing with my son where we've been out in Namibia with a tribe, living in deepest Africa, and I've just done a thing for the BBC about rich celebrities, supposedly, who are jobless, so that's an interesting departure."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.