Gavin and Stacey’s Joanna Page says she was groped by TV host

BBC/Sarah Louise BennettJoanna Web page was warned the host might be “handsy”Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Web page has mentioned she was “groped” by a TV host after being warned about him.The actress mentioned a feminine producer informed her he might be “very handsy” and is “most likely going to start out touching you”.In accordance with The Occasions the actress made the feedback in her new ebook, Lush! She added she was not naming the particular person for authorized causes.The 48-year-old mentioned: “Midway by means of filming, he begins groping me.”I hit his arms and mentioned, ‘What do you suppose you are bloody doing? I really feel like I am in Bristol Zoo being mauled by the lions.'”After that he stopped, she mentioned. “It was weird, a feminine producer telling you this was going to occur, nevertheless it’s what you bought used to,” Ms Web page added.Within the interview with The Occasions the actress additionally spoke about when the position of Stacey Shipman got here alongside and the way she was working in a south London shoe store.”It was the primary time since leaving drama college I would thought, ‘I do know these voices! I do know this world!'””My mum is precisely the identical as [Stacey’s mum] Gwen. In the event you’re depressing or upset, she’s like, ‘Would you like an omelette?'”Earlier than I first went to London my uncle Anthony gave me a rape alarm, identical to Stacey’s Uncle Bryn.”This half was mine. It was sacrilege if it went to another person, who was both placing on an accent – though you are allowed to try this, I’ve carried out my whole profession – or that they had well-known dad and mom, or they have been simply well-known.”She added that had she not received the half she would have been “carried out with the entire thing”.BBC/Fulwell73 & Tidy Productions/Tom JacksonIf she had not received the half in Gavin and Stacey she would have been “carried out with the entire (performing) factor”She informed the paper that on the audition [Ruth] Jones informed her to undertake a Cardiff accent. “The one time I get to go for one thing Welsh, I nonetheless cannot do my very own voice.”Web page added she had no thought what a Cardiff accent gave the impression of, so made one up.”Ruth took me outdoors and mentioned, ‘What are you doing? Simply discuss the best way you usually discuss.'”She did, received the half and Jones and co-writer James Corden altered the script to make Stacey from Swansea. She mentioned to The Occasions that the sequence allowed her to show down most different work to concentrate on her kids, two canine and 4 guinea pigs. Beforehand Web page revealed she wrote Lush! in a disused pub automotive park, outdoors a cricket membership in the course of the night time and in a automotive outdoors her home.The consequence was “like a remedy session”.Gavin and Stacey aired its remaining episode on Christmas Day final yr and took house the comedy award on the Nationwide Tv Awards earlier this month.The Christmas Day episode turned probably the most watched scripted TV reveals of the century.In accordance with official Barb rankings figures, after seven days of catch-up viewing the finale of the a lot cherished comedy had been seen by 19.11 million individuals, which beat the final Gavin & Stacey particular in 2019 which on the similar stage had an viewers of 17.92m, rising to 18.49m after a month.In addition to starring in Gavin and Stacey, Web page hosts BBC podcast Off The Telly, with EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy, and has appeared in movies together with From Hell and Love Really.When you’ve got been affected by the problems raised on this story you’ll be able to go to the BBC Motion Line for particulars of organisations who can provide help.