Title: List of Gavin &amp; Stacey characters
Content:  Gavin & Stacey is a British television comedy series, following the lives of the title characters Gavin (Mathew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page). Stacey lives in Barry, South Wales. Her best friend is Nessa Jenkins (Ruth Jones). Gavin lives in Billericay, Essex. His best friend is Neil "Smithy" Smith (James Corden). During the first two series Gavin lives with his parents Mick (Larry Lamb) and Pam (Alison Steadman). In the third series, he has moved in with Stacey and Stacey's mother, Gwen (Melanie Walters). Uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) lives directly opposite.
Title: List of Gavin &amp; Stacey episodes
Content:  Gavin & Stacey is a British romantic situation comedy that follows the long-distance relationship of Gavin (Mathew Horne) from Billericay in Essex, England, and Stacey (Joanna Page) from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The writers of the show, actors James Corden and Ruth Jones, also co-star as Gavin and Stacey's friends, Smithy and Nessa. Other prominent cast members include Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb, who play Gavin's parents, Pam and Mick, and Melanie Walters and Rob Brydon, who portray Stacey's mother, Gwen, and her uncle, Bryn. The show was produced by Baby Cow Productions for BBC Wales. It 
Title: Gavin &amp; Stacey
Content:  Gavin & Stacey is a British comedy television series written by James Corden and Ruth Jones about two families: one in Billericay, Essex; one in Barry, South Wales. Mathew Horne and Joanna Page play the titular characters Gavin and Stacey and the writers star as Smithy and Nessa. Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb star as Gavin's parents (Pam and Mick), and Melanie Walters (Gwen) is Stacey's mother and Rob Brydon (Bryn) is Stacey's uncle. Baby Cow Productions produced the sitcom for BBC Wales. Three series totalling twenty episodes were broadcast from 13 May 2007 to 1 January 2010 on BBC Three and later on BBC One. Broadcast on Christmas Day 2009 and New Year's Day 2010, episodes of the final series formed a significant part of the prime-time 
Title: List of Gavin &amp; Stacey characters
Content:  and Jason's mother. She is a widow in her late forties and has two children, Jason and Stacey. She is a housewife and regularly offers to cook omelettes. She's a caring, kind woman who lets herself be taken advantage of by Stacey's best friend, Nessa. She's very close to Stacey as they spent many years living together. In Series 3, Stacey and her husband Gavin move back in with Gwen. On the day of Nessa's wedding, Nessa told Gwen that she was like a mother to her before kissing her on the lips, which gobsmacks Gwen but does not affect Nessa. 
Title: List of Gavin &amp; Stacey characters
Content:  serious discussion with Stacey. They decide to carry on trying to conceive for a few months, and they should start looking at alternatives afterwards. In the final episode, Stacey discovers she is pregnant, and Gavin is just as thrilled as she is. In the 2019 Christmas special he is a father of 3 children living in Barry with Stacey. ; Stacey Shipman (née West) (Joanna Page) – Stacey is 26 and is from Barry, near Cardiff. Her father, Trevor, died three years ago, and she lived at home with her mother in Barry until her marriage. Her gay brother, Jason, lives 
Title: Gavin &amp; Stacey
Content:  The story revolves around Gavin, from Billericay in Essex, and Stacey, from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales. Gavin lives with his parents, Pam and Mick, and spends most of his time with his best friend, Smithy. Stacey lives with her widowed mother, Gwen, and is frequently visited by her uncle, Bryn, who lives across the road, and by her best friend Nessa. The show follows the key moments in their relationship: their first meeting, meeting each other's families, getting engaged, marrying, looking for a flat, briefly splitting up, looking for new jobs and trying for children. The characters of 
Title: Gavin &amp; Stacey
Content:  down-to-earth father. ; Pamela Andrea "Pam" Shipman (née Gryglaszewska) (Alison Steadman) – Gavin's house-proud and over-protective mother. ; Brynfor "Bryn" West (Rob Brydon) – known as "Uncle Bryn"; Stacey's protective, naïve and eccentric uncle, and Gwen's brother-in-law. Bryn's brother, Trevor, Stacey's father, died prior to the time depicted in the series, which Bryn helped the family cope with. He has a difficult relationship with his nephew, Jason, due to a seemingly disturbing incident on their fishing trip. It is occasionally implied that he is attracted to men. ; Gwen West (Melanie Walters) – Stacey's caring, widowed mother. She also has an elder son, Jason, who lives in Spain. 
Title: Gavin &amp; Stacey
Content:  Despite their dislike for each other, they have several one-night stands, leading to Nessa becoming pregnant and having their baby. Whilst Gavin and Stacey are the clear main characters, towards the end of the show's run, the dramatic emphasis switches slightly from them, as they resolve their distance issues, to Smithy and Nessa, as Nessa becomes engaged to another man. Other storylines in the three series include Pam's fake vegetarianism, Bryn and his nephew Jason's struggle to keep the events of their disastrous fishing trip a secret, and the ridiculously rocky marriage of Pam and Mick’s friends Pete and Dawn.
Title: Gavin &amp; Stacey
Content:  The initial series begins with the lives of the title characters, Gavin Shipman (Mathew Horne) and Stacey West (Joanna Page). Gavin is 28 and lives at home in Billericay, Essex, with his parents, Mick (Larry Lamb) and Pam (Alison Steadman). He and Stacey, along with their respective best friends Neil "Smithy" Smith (James Corden) and Nessa Jenkins (Ruth Jones), go out on a double date. The night ends with Gavin and Stacey returning to a hotel room and sleeping together, as do Smithy and Nessa. Gavin and Stacey become infatuated with each other, but Smithy and Nessa are happy to forget their drunken one-night stand and make little contact with one another afterwards. In the rest of the series, Gavin and Stacey continue their long-distance relationship before becoming engaged and getting married on 6 April 2007. The series ends with Nessa going to inform Smithy that she is pregnant with his child but changes her mind at the last minute.
Title: List of Gavin &amp; Stacey characters
Content:  Gavin's father. He is often mistaken to be 53 and is a down-to-earth bloke, like his son. He's happy with his life –  running his own company, playing golf and going to the pub quiz every Tuesday. He is something of a calming influence on his wife, Pam. ; Pamela Andrea "Pam" Shipman (née Gryglaszewska) (Alison Steadman) –  Pam is Gavin's proud and doting mother. She is in her fifties, though her exact age is unknown as, according to her husband, she has claimed to be 51 on her past five birthdays. She is a stereotypical Essex wife and is very 

Question: who plays stacey's mum in gavin and stacey?
Answer: Melanie Walters.