Joanna Page: 'I couldn't join husband on Emmerdale'

Joanna Page has revealed that she couldn't join her husband James Thornton on Emmerdale, as they would laugh too much.

The Gavin and Stacey star's husband plays John Barton in the soap, and she explained that she couldn't "take it seriously" if they appeared on screen together.

"I don't think we'd be able to film together because we'd probably start laughing," she told What's On TV.

"We've done panto together and we couldn't get through that without giggling. I know him so well, so looking at him and pretending that he was someone else would just make me giggle.

"I'd think, 'I know you're not John Barton the farmer from Emmerdale because I was washing your pants this morning in our washing machine in Dulwich', so I wouldn't be able to take it seriously. But I would quite like filming in the countryside."

Page added that she doesn't get jealous while watching Thornton's romantic scenes on the soap.

"They can't really do very much on Emmerdale, it doesn't really get that saucy so I'm not really that bothered about it!

"Also, we've been together now for so long. And it's part of the business. I'm more worried about him having his hand up a cow's bum."

Page recently said that it is unlikely that a Gavin and Stacey film will be made in the future.

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