\t\u201cGavin & Stacey\u201d star Laura Aikman took her NDA so seriously she even kept her appearance in the 90-minute special a secret from her own family. \tAikman, who plays the widely-disliked Sonia in the cult BBC series, posted a video of herself watching \u201cGavin & Stacey: The Finale\u201d on Christmas Day with her family, who appeared to have no idea she was about to make an appearance on screen. In the scene, James Corden, who co-created and stars in the series, is shown into a room to meet his \u201cbride-to-be,\u201d with the audience led to assume it\u2019s his on-again-off-again partner Nessa (fellow co-creator Ruth Jones). Instead, it\u2019s Sonia. \tIn the video Aikman showed her family screaming with surprise as they watched the scene, with Aikman laughing while a woman who appears to be her mother shouts \u201cOh my God\u2026 you never told me!\u201d \t \t\t\t \t\t\tPopular on Variety\t\t \t \t\t \t \tAikman captioned the video: \u201cI take an NDA very seriously.\u201d \tThe actor, who has also appeared opposite Jason Isaacs in Cary Grant biopic \u201cArchie\u201d and, most recently, alongside Sophie Turner in \u201cJoan,\u201d did not participate in press for \u201cGavin & Stacey: The Finale\u201d and reportedly even stayed in a separate hotel to the rest of the cast so as to keep her appearance a surprise for fans. \tThe special, which saw Corden and Jones reunite on screen after an absence of five years, aired in the U.K. on Christmas Day, where it won the ratings war with 12.3 million viewers, beating out \u201cWallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,\u201d which clocked up 9.4 million viewers and King Charles II\u2019s annual Christmas speech, which saw 5 million people tune in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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