“Gavin & Stacey” star Laura Aikman took her NDA so seriously she even kept her appearance within the 90-minute special a secret from her family.
Aikman, who plays the widely-disliked Sonia within the cult BBC series, posted a video of herself watching “Gavin & Stacey: The Finale” on Christmas Day together with her family, who appeared to don’t know she was about to make an appearance on screen. Within the scene, James Corden, who co-created and stars within the series, is shown right into a room to satisfy his “bride-to-be,” with the audience led to assume it’s his on-again-off-again partner Nessa (fellow co-creator Ruth Jones). As a substitute, it’s Sonia.
Within the video Aikman showed her family screaming with surprise as they watched the scene, with Aikman laughing while a girl who appears to be her mother shouts “Oh my God… you never told me!”
Aikman captioned the video: “I take an NDA very seriously.”
The actor, who has also appeared opposite Jason Isaacs in Cary Grant biopic “Archie” and, most recently, alongside Sophie Turner in “Joan,” didn’t take part in press for “Gavin & Stacey: The Finale” and reportedly even stayed in a separate hotel to the remaining of the forged in order to maintain her appearance a surprise for fans.
The special, which saw Corden and Jones reunite on screen after an absence of 5 years, aired within the U.K. on Christmas Day, where it won the rankings war with 12.3 million viewers, beating out “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” which clocked up 9.4 million viewers and King Charles II’s annual Christmas speech, which saw 5 million people tune in.
