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Ruth Jones is best known for playing Nessa - the no-nonsense Barry Island bruiser from hit comedy Gavin & Stacey.

Ruth Jones tells of battle to shed weight

Ruth Jones, the Welsh actress, has told of her battle with weight problems and dismissed suggestions that it was the result of anything but hard work.

Ruth Jones re-meets carer for Comic Relief special

Carer Ron Lambert will be reunited with actress Ruth Jones on television during BBC One's Comic Relief programme What a Cracker, to be screened on December 28.

Ruth Jones refuses to write autobiography

Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones has refused to write her autobiography because she is too young.

What's occurin' with Ruth Jones?

After creating one of TV's most feisty female characters in Barry Island arcade worker Nessa in Gavin & Stacey, actress Ruth Jones is returning to our screens as another formidable Welsh woman in a new Sky1 HD comedy drama.

Ruth Jones interview

Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones stars in Stella - a comedy-drama about a Welsh single mother with three troublesome children.

Ruth Jones proved herself a far less capable interviewer than actress when her lacklustre chat show debuted at the end of last year. Perhaps inviting gobby Gavin & Stacey collaborator James Corden onto the couch will spice up this seasonal special. Feisty singer Lulu, comedian Mickey Flanagan and Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers will feature.

Radio Times review

The 36th best TV show of 2011 according to the Radio Times.

A superb example of BBC4's curious but rewarding obsession with mid-ranking, mid-20th Century entertainers, and the misery success brought them. Hattie Jacques, trapped by sexist typecasting and her supportive but inert husband John Le Mesurier, welcomes a sexy young lodger (Aidan Turner) into the family home and proceeds to have an affair with him. As Jacques, Ruth Jones captured the desperation of someone who knows, deep down, that she's destroying herself, but can't quite stop. Robert Bathurst was just as fine as Le Mesurier, who could see what Jacques was doing but couldn't quite rouse himself to prevent her. A sensational-on-paper story became sober, classy and sad.

Gavin and Stacey: The musical?

BBC sitcom co-creator Ruth Jones has revealed a musical version of Gavin and Stacey could be on the cards.

Ruth Jones shakes off Nessa to play British Roseanne

Ruth Jones is shaking off her famous role of Nessa as she stars in a new comedy drama dubbed "the British Roseanne". Stella, which will be aired on Sky 1 from January, follows the fortunes of a 40-something single mother-of-three living in the South Wales Valleys.