Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page has spoken candidly about her new autobiography
Katie Palmer Senior TV Reporter for Screen Time
10:50, 08 Nov 2025
Gavin and Stacey’s Joanna Page recently appeared on James Martin’s Saturday Morning to discuss her new autobiography, Lush: My Story – From Swansea to Stacey and Everything in Between.
The Welsh actress, a mother-of-four, is married to actor James Thornton, with both having starred in the 1999 TV serial David Copperfield.
Page expressed her desire for her debut book to be “brutally honest”, stating: “I’m raw, I’m honest, I don’t pull any punches, and there were many times where I just thought, ‘pull it, I can’t, it’s too personal’.
“And then ‘You know what, stuff it, I’m going to write it, I’m shoving everything into it’. I’m sure there’s going to be lots of moments where mum goes ‘Oh, Joanna, did you really have to write about that?’ But I thought, it’s me.”
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She also shared the moment she revealed the book to her family.
The star confessed her children were completely unaware of the book, adding: “My husband said to me, ‘Am I in it?’
“And I said ‘Oh yes, just you wait and see, I have got a whole chapter dedicated to conceiving our last baby’.”
James Martin queried: “Is he OK with that?”
Joanna cheekily responded: “It’s too late because it’s all in print now but the kids were saying to me ‘Are we in it?’
“And do you know what is really lovely? When I first got the book and I gave them each a copy and wrote a message in for each one of them.
“When they opened it and they read the dedication which is to them, my husband read the acknowledgements out loud.
Joanna Page is releasing a new book(Image: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
“When I get to the bit where it says ‘Thank you to my family’ and I start writing about him and the fact he got me through writing it.
“And he looked after the children and just gave me back massages and French martinis when I was feeling like I couldn’t carry on, he was crying as he was reading it, it was lovely.”
In a separate chat with The Mirror, Joanna effusively praised her husband, revealing the secret to their enduring and joyful marriage.
She stated: “He makes me laugh and I love his personality. We have the same views and ideas of how we want to live our lives.
“We love being together all the time. But you don’t get through 25 years without ups and downs. Of course we bicker and have arguments and go to bed not speaking, but we always wake up in the morning and never carry the argument on.”
James Martin’s Saturday Morning airs on ITV.
