A Gavin & Stacey finale script signed by the show’s cast has raised £50,510 for charity. 

The script was donated by actor Robert Wilfort – who plays Stacey’s brother Jason – for a £5-a-ticket raffle.

Proceeds from the draw went to Buckinghamshire-based Theatre Shed which professionally led performing arts workshops.

So many people tried to take part the charity’s website struggled to cope with the demand. A total of 4,500 tickets were sold.

Speaking about the donation, Robert said: ‘I knew it would be popular, to put it mildly. I thought it would be good to do something with that popularity.’

‘There’s a fantastic charity near to me, I’ve had a long ᴀssociation with them, so I got in touch and said, ‘Shall we raffle off the script?”

A Gavin & Stacey finale script signed by the show’s cast has raised £50,510 for charity

The script was donated by actor Robert Wilfort – who plays Stacey’s brother Jason – for a £5-a-ticket raffle

‘Raising money like this is so imperative to help us keep going. We don’t get statutory funding and it’s been a tough year for us as a small charity.’

The Theatre Shed’s Alice Connor said: ‘Raising money like this is so imperative to help us keep going.

‘We don’t get statutory funding and it’s been a tough year for us as a small charity.’

The Gavin & Stacey finale pulled in a staggering 12.5million viewers – the highest Christmas Day TV audience in 16 years.

Viewers finally saw Nessa (Ruth Jones) and Smithy (James Corden) tie the knot in the highly anticipated conclusion.

The Christmas special and finale came five years after the show’s last Christmas instalment in 2019.

Viewers had been waiting to learn the fate of the BBC sitcom’s beloved characters and see if Smithy had accepted Nessa’s proposal.

The final episode was hailed ‘perfect’ by viewers, who were left in tears as the long-running show finally aired its last episode after 17 years.

The Gavin & Stacey finale pulled in a staggering 12.5million viewers – the highest Christmas Day TV audience in 16 years

So many people tried to take part the charity’s website struggled to cope with the demand. A total of 4,500 tickets were sold

Viewers finally saw Ness and Smithy tie the knot in the highly anticipated conclusion

While fans tuned into the episode to see whether Smithy had accepted Nessa’s proposal from the 2019 Christmas Special, a five-year time jump revealed that he was indeed set to tie the knot, but all was not as it seemed.

It was revealed that Smithy had instead got engaged to his girlfriend Sonia, who failed to impress the Shipman/West clan when she met them in the last festive episode.

Fans were also treated to the surprise return of Sheridan Smith as Smithy’s sister Rudi, and Pam Ferris as his mum Cath.

Yet when it came to Smithy’s big day he realised that Nessa was his one true love and called off the wedding.

The entire family jumped into Dave’s coach and rushed to Southampton, where Nessa was preparing to set sail, and in a scene 17 years in the making, he declared his love for her, and asked her to reconsider leaving.

While an ever-stoic Nessa insisted she wouldn’t propose to Smithy again, instead he returned her offer from five years earlier, finally getting down on one knee and asking her to marry him.

The episode then cut to Smithy and Nessa exchanging their vows at long last in an intimate ceremony in Barry, with the series ending with an emotional montage of the family marking the occasion at The Dolphin pub, before posing for a family snap together.