It’s a thriller that has plagued Gavin & Stacey followers for so long as Bryn and Jason’s fishing journey or precisely how Gavin’s gang of buddies earned their nicknames… what precisely is the story with Owain Hughes?

First seen within the third and ultimate season of the award-winning sitcom, Owain is a colleague of Gavin’s who introduces himself with the curious opening line: “Owain Hughes… and earlier than you ask, no I don’t.”

Regardless of everybody round him (together with, at one level, Uncle Bryn) seemingly discovering the one-liner hilarious, Gavin was all the time at nighttime about what it meant – and so, for that matter, have been Gavin & Stacey viewers.

In a brand new interview with the BBC, actor Steven Meo reveals he’s usually approached by “a bunch of Gavin & Stacey followers” who’ve their very own theories as to what Owain Hughes’ title actually means.

“You get on these threads and there are such a lot of individuals who [think they] know precisely what the joke is – ‘it’s a play on “wine”’ or ‘no you’ve obtained to talk Welsh, I converse Welsh and I’m not telling you’ – it’s sensible,” he defined.

Nevertheless, Steven has insisted these theories are all bogus, and Gavin & Stacey screenwriters James Corden and Ruth Jones truly simply threw the reference in there to attempt to confuse folks.

“It was actually only a crimson herring designed to wind folks up,” he mentioned.

Properly, all we are able to say is… mission achieved.

Subsequent week will see Gavin & Stacey returning to our screens for what’s being billed as its final ever episode on Christmas Day.

To this point, little is understood about what the feature-length particular will entail, though teaser photographs have hinted at the return of an surprising acquainted face, in addition to a decision to the cliffhanger to finish all cliffhangers within the 2019 Christmas particular.