Gavin & Stacey's Joanna web page threatened to divorce husband ...

Joanna and James have been at each and every different's throats (graphic: Rex)

Gavin & Stacey star Joanna page 'threatened to divorce' her husband of 17 years right through lockdown.

The actress has been married to former Emmerdale famous person James Thornton due to the fact 2003, and the couple share three infants – Eva, seven, equipment, five, and Noah, 4.

youngsters, lockdown proved difficult for the couple, and Joanna, 43, noted they even stopped talking for a month.

chatting with The solar, she said: 'We spent the whole of the primary lockdown arguing and perilous to divorce each and every different.

'Then we went via a month of actually now not announcing a single be aware to every other.

'We came out of that a bit of numb and deadened and determined for anything we may get as a result of we just argued so a lot.'

The pair had been married for 17 years (image: John Phillips/Getty photos)

Like many parents, Joanna and James, 45, struggled to locate any time to be intimate all the way through lockdown, as their toddlers have been consistently with them day and night.

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however, once their youngsters went lower back to faculty, they begun making an attempt to squeeze in sex before determining them up, with Joanna including: 'at least me and my husband could talk to each and every other and reunite after which I might fancy him.'

This mirrors the storyline of the 2019 Gavin & Stacey Christmas particular, the place Stacey attempted to reignite the spark in her marriage to Gavin (Mathew Horne), after their sex existence dried up following the beginning of their three toddlers.

within the demonstrate, the couple promised to retain the flame alive as they remembered the early days of their relationship.

Joanna reckons there'll be one other particular sooner or later (picture: BBC)

The Christmas particular turned into a big hit last yr, with over 17 million people tuning in to see that cliffhanger, when Nessa (Ruth Jones) proposed to Smithy (James Corden).

The solid has faced continuous questions all yr about whether we'll get an extra episode, and while Joanna talked about that she hasn't heard anything about a brand new particular, she 'can't imagine they may go away it the style they did'.

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fanatics had to make do with a repeat of the 2019 special, aired on BBC One on Christmas Eve, in addition to a cast reunion on BBC Radio Wales on Christmas Day.

Joanna hosted a festive demonstrate with Mathew, with castmates including Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb calling in to talk about all issues Christmas. 

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