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BBC\/Sarah Louise Bennett<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nGavin and Stacey star Joanna Page has said she was “groped” by a TV host after being warned about him.<\/p>\n The actress said a female producer told her he could be “very handsy” and is “probably going to start touching you”.<\/p>\n According to The Times the actress made the comments in her new book, Lush! <\/p>\n She added she was not naming the person for legal reasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The 48-year-old said: “Halfway through filming, he starts groping me.<\/p>\n “I hit his hands and said, ‘What do you think you’re bloody doing? I feel like I’m in Bristol Zoo being mauled by the lions.'”<\/p>\n After that he stopped, she said. <\/p>\n “It was bizarre, a female producer telling you this was going to happen, but it’s what you got used to,” Ms Page added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the interview with The Times<\/a> the actress also spoke about when the role of Stacey Shipman came along and how she was working in a south London shoe shop.<\/p>\n “It was the first time since leaving drama school I’d thought, ‘I know these voices! I know this world!'”<\/p>\n “My mum is exactly the same as [Stacey’s mum] Gwen. If you’re miserable or upset, she’s like, ‘Do you want an omelette?’<\/p>\n “Before I first went to London my uncle Anthony gave me a rape alarm, just like Stacey’s Uncle Bryn.<\/p>\n “This part was mine. It was sacrilege if it went to someone else, who was either putting on an accent – although you’re allowed to do that, I have done my entire career – or they had famous parents, or they were just famous.”<\/p>\n She added that had she not got the part she would have been “done with the whole thing”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She told the paper that at the audition [Ruth] Jones told her to adopt a Cardiff accent. <\/p>\n “The one time I get to go for something Welsh, I still can’t do my own voice.”<\/p>\n Page added she had no idea what a Cardiff accent sounded like, so made one up.<\/p>\n “Ruth took me outside and said, ‘What are you doing? Just talk the way you normally talk.'”<\/p>\n She did, won the part and Jones and co-writer James Corden altered the script to make Stacey from Swansea. <\/p>\n She said to The Times that the series allowed her to turn down most other work to focus on her children, two dogs and four guinea pigs. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Previously Page revealed she wrote Lush! in a disused pub car park<\/a>, outside a cricket club in the middle of the night and in a car outside her house.<\/p>\n The result was “like a therapy session<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Gavin and Stacey aired its final episode on Christmas Day last year<\/a> and took home the comedy award at the National Television Awards<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n The Christmas Day episode became one of the most watched scripted TV shows of the century<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to official Barb ratings figures, after seven days of catch-up viewing the finale of the much loved comedy had been seen by 19.11 million people, which beat the last Gavin & Stacey special in 2019 which at the same stage had an audience of 17.92m, rising to 18.49m after a month.<\/p>\n As well as starring in Gavin and Stacey, Page hosts BBC podcast Off The Telly, with EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy, and has appeared in films including From Hell and Love Actually.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you have been affected by the issues raised in this story you can visit the <\/b><\/i>BBC Action Line<\/b><\/i><\/a> for details of organisations who can offer support.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/bbcdotcom\/web\/20250905-110137-f27f908f49-web-2.29.1-3\/grey-placeholder.png\")
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