(Beth Granville) – a friend of Stacey and Nessa. Neil Jenkins (Huw Dafydd) – Nessa's father, rarely seen in Barry, but attended Neil the baby's christening. Owain Hughes (Steve Meo) – Website Manager in Gavin's new job in Cardiff. He has the confusing catchphrase: "Owain Hughes, and before you ask, no I don't." Dick Powell (Gwynfor Roberts) – the only fully Welsh-speaking inhabitant of Barry (aside from the Welsh nationalists in the caravan park), he works on the black market selling meat. Neil "the Baby" Noel Edmond Smith (Scarlett Humphreys; 2008, Lewis Marchant; 2008, Rocco Romanello; 2009, Ewan Kennedy; 2009, Oscar Hartland; 2009, 2019) – Smithy and Nessa's son. He is named after Nessa's father and Smithy (who are both called Neil), Nessa's friend from Hear'Say (Noel Sullivan), and Smithy's grandfather Edmond. In the episode of the christening, Gavin humorously says that Neil is named after Noel Edmonds, which Smithy gets annoyed over. Sonia (Laura Aikman) – Smithy's new girlfriend who he is thinking of proposing to. Harri Shipman (Gabriel Mitell) – Gavin and Stacey's eldest child, who was born shortly after the third series in 2010. Caitlin Shipman (Martha Tregonning) – Gavin and Stacey's elder daughter. Megan Shipman (Maddison Belle Platt) – Gavin and Stacey's younger daughter. Guest Noel Sullivan and John Prescott made brief cameo appearances towards the end of the final series. Episodes Series 1 (2007) 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 in central London. 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. Series 2 (2008) The second series begins with