Gavin & Stacey hotel room and sleeping together, as do Smithy and Nessa. Gavin and Stacey become infatuated with each other, but Smithy and Nessa are happy to forget their drunken one-night stand and make little contact with one another afterwards. In the rest of the series, Gavin and Stacey continue their long-distance relationship before becoming engaged and getting married. The series ends with Nessa going to inform Smithy that she is pregnant with his child but changes her mind at the last minute. The second series begins with the newlyweds arriving from a honeymoon in Greece. The in-laws meet again at the
Ruth Jones deal with Transworld after a bidding war between ten publishing companies. The novel went into the Sunday Times bestseller list at no 7 after just three days of sales, before reaching the number one slot for two consecutive weeks. In October 2018 Ruth Jones will be returning to the stage after a twelve-year absence in a new play The Nightingales by William Gaminara, produced by Jenny Topper and Bath Theatre Royal. Jones was judged the "Best Female Comedy Newcomer" at the 2007 British Comedy Awards, and was also nominated for "Best Television Comedy Actress". She was also recipient of the