Joanna Page: ‘I’ve mourned Gavin and Stacey – now I’m ready to play Miss Marple’

Joanna Page has said sayonara to Gavin and Stacey – but what does the future hold? (Picture: BBC)

When Joanna Page got a call from her agent asking her whether she wanted to do Taskmaster, her first thought was: ‘Oh my God, no’.

It’s been over a year since the nation said goodbye to Gavin and Stacey – in which the 49-year-old Welsh actor played the titular Stacey Shipman over two decades – with a finale filming experience that involved bucketloads of sobbing (but we’ll get to that).

But what’s scarier than closing a door on the familiar? Well, plunging...