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Merton 'unhappy with Prescott HIGNFY job'

Paul Merton was reportedly unhappy that John Prescott scored a hosting job on Have I Got News For You.

John Prescott to chair Have I Got News for You

John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, is to make his debut as guest host on Have I Got News For You, it was announced on Friday.

Voters know me from Gavin and Stacey, says Prescott

Former deputy PM John Prescott says his appearance on hit BBC show Gavin and Stacey did more for his political profile than 40 years of campaigning.

According to co-writers Ruth Jones and James Corden, this is the show's last ever episode, and the series ends, as all self-respecting feelgood comedy dramas should, with a wedding, a big revelation and a semi-ironic blast of Angry Anderson's Suddenly. Controversially, the BBC has already released the DVD of this third series, so you may already know that John Prescott makes a brief cameo, and that Nessa (Jones) is towed to the church in a trailer attached to the back of her father's brown Mini Metro. But if not: enjoy.

It's Nessa and Dave's wedding, an event every fan will be wishing doesn't happen. We all know she's supposed to end up with Smithy. So does he. The moment he meets Nessa to collect baby Neil and just can't bring himself to reveal his feelings is heart breaking. As she heads up back the motorway for her big day you want to shout at the telly: "Go after her, you big buffoon!"

But leave it a bit, alright? We've got to see TV's most unlikely bride do the walking down the aisle bit first. Nessa wants her big day to be done in style - but this is Nessa's style, so she looks more like Boudicca than a meringue.

The episode, in case you've been living under a rock, is the last-ever one (unless I get my wish and the careers of Ruth Jones and James Corden go belly up and they're so desperate they're forced to write more).

And it's faultless, with the superb choice of music including the same tearjerker that Scott and Charlene walked down the aisle to in Neighbours and You've Got The Love, used in the Sex & The City finale. So will Nessa get Gavin & Stacey's answer to Mr Big? Or, heaven forbid, will she clap eyes on ex-lover John Prescott (who cameos) and run off with him instead?

John Prescott to appear in TV comedy Gavin and Stacey

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott is to make a cameo appearance in BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey.