Joanna Page’s ‘exhaustion’ and ‘grief’ as Gavin and Stacey comes to an end

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Joanna Page said she cried every day filming the last episode of 'Gavin and Stacey'. The 47-year-old actor, who played Stacey Shipman in the hit BBC show, will finally say goodbye to her alter ego in the Christmas special.

Gavin and Stacey: The Finale comes five years after the last episode and 17 years after the sitcom began, and Joanna admitted she was "exhausted" at the end of every day of filming because she was going through a period of grief. READ MORE: Gregg Wallace's Masterchef co-star John Torode gives brutal four-word assessment She told Woman and Home magazine: “Saying goodbye to 'Gavin and Stacey' felt like a grief.

When I came home from filming, I was absolutely bloody exhausted! You’re saying goodbye to each location and person. I was crying from the second day. “All of us knew, ‘This is it’, and that’s why being back together felt so lovely and meant so much.

It was like a big family reunion, and because I knew it was the last one, I wasn’t nervous because I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to be good.’ "I just wanted to be with everybody, have fun and say goodbye to my family, even though I’ll see them again!” Joanna admitted she doesn't think she'll ever have another job quite like 'Gavin and Stacey'.