Larry Lamb’s latest role has been revealed following the final episode of Gavin and Stacey. 

The actor, 77, reprised his role as Gavin’s dad, Mick Shipman, for the feature-length festive special on Christmas Day that concluded the BBC series 17 years after it first hit screens.

He is now set for a very different role as he stars as a pub garden weatherman in new advertisements for Greene King pubs.   

Larry will be presenting The Sipping Forecast a weather report designed to help punters navigate the unpredictable spring conditions. 

This April, he will deliver special broadcasts to ensure Brits are prepared for pub garden season, come wind, rain, or shine. 

In new pH๏τos, ahead of the ad, the actor is seen in a colourful Hawaiian shirt before changing into a green rain coat. 

Larry Lamb’s latest role has been revealed following the final episode of Gavin and Stacey

The actor, 77, reprised his role as Gavin’s dad, Mick Shipman, for the feature-length festive special on Christmas Day that concluded the BBC series 17 years after it first hit screens

Greene King Pubs is giving away 100,000 free pints as part of its When It Rains, We Pour initiative. 

The first raindrops detected between 3-10 April will unlock the UK’s biggest round of pints — so pub-goers can claim a drink on the house.

Gavin and Stacey, which debuted back in 2007 after being created by stars James Corden and Ruth Jones, concluded with on/off lovers Smithy and Nessa finally declaring their love for one another and tying the knot, but not without a few hiccups along the way.

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, with actress Laura Aikman’s return to the show kept a closely-guarded secret.

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.

He is now set for a very different role as he stars as a pub garden weatherman in new advertisements for Greene King pubs

Larry will be presenting The Sipping Forecast a weather report designed to help punters navigate the unpredictable spring conditions

This April, he will deliver special broadcasts to ensure Brits are prepared for pub garden season, come wind, rain, or shine.

In new pH๏τos, ahead of the ad, the actor is seen in a colourful Hawaiian shirt before changing into a green rain coat

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. 

It 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. 

The episode drew in a whopping 12.5 million viewers to become the most watched show on Christmas Day.

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