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Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps had us in stitches for years – but a rumoured reunion still hasn’t been planned. Here’s everything you need to know about where the cast is now

There was one go-to TV series in the early-Noughties that still lives rent-free in our heads. And despite fans clamouring for years for a reunion, the cast of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps are still holding out on us.

The BBC sitcom revolved around the friendships and love lives of five twenty-something pals. And given the show’s title, a lot of the action revolved around their local pub in glamorous Runcorn, Cheshire. First airing in 2001, Two Pints quickly became a cult classic, with many viewers considering it one of the all-time best British comedies, and others finding it a guilty pleasure.

Across nine explosive series there were fights, cheating and a tear-jerking death of a main character that had us all in floods of tears after he was eaten by a shark. There was even that ground-breaking episode where viewers got to decide whether Gaz should be with Donna or Janet.

Excitement had been building for a potential reunion for years… but unlike other classics like Friends and Gavin & Stacey, Two Pints still hasn’t given us closure.

In 2019, actor Will Mellor revealed he had been speaking to show creator Sue Nickson about a reunion after fans got in touch on social media.

Will told fans: “Well, I have been listening and reading your messages and I think we are going to get a Two Pints special off the ground.

“I spoke to Susan Nickson (the show’s creator) and we are hopefully going to try and get a Two Pints special going. Just to say thank you for all the support of people who love the show and got behind it.

“Watch this space, just got to dot the ‘i’s and cross the ‘t’s and hopefully a Two Pints special will be on the way.”

But dreams of a comeback were crushed because one cast member wouldn’t pick up the phone (more on that below).

Here’s what happened to the Two Pints cast after the show wrapped.

Will Mellor – Gaz Wilkinson

Mechanic Gaz was your typical bloke who loved beer, booze and babes, as well as having a soft spot for Hollyoaks and Monarch of the Glen.

Gaz had some strange habits, like only using bread from the middle of the loaf, and was an avid collector of pornography.

He was madly in love with Donna but the pair split when he had a one-night stand with her best pal Janet.

They got back together after a road accident and finally got married in series 7, but on their wedding day, Gaz discovered he was the father of Janet’s son. Donna left so Gaz and Janet could be together, but then returned in series 8, with viewers voting for Gaz to choose Donna.

He was left in a year-long coma after a car accident then decided to travel the world, but Donna revealed she would not be coming after a heartbreaking discovery.

After Two Pints, Will played a womanising salesman in EastEnders and made guest appearances in Merlin and Waterloo Road. He starred in White Van Man, Broadchurch, In the Club, Death in Paradise and Line of Duty.

Will, who is the voice of the Funky Pigeon ads, was also a frequent panelist and guest judge on Celebrity Juice.

“They were the best times, it wasn’t like hard work, it was like being with your friends,” said Will as he reminisced about the show. “We’d go out at weekends and be together everyday, we were a lot younger and had no responsibilities so we could have a few drinks and wake up fresh every day, but now if I have a few drinks it takes me three days.”

During the Covid lockdown, he and Ralf launched their podcast, Two Pints with Will & Ralf, after hearing from fans that they were loving watching reruns of the sitcom.

“Nostalgia is a big thing, people grew up with that show, and we did have a script called Two Pints, Last Orders,” he revealed in 2024. “Susan Nickson, the original creator, wrote it, and the BBC said they didn’t want to revisit it. So there is a massive hunger for it.”

And Will said he could see himself signing up for a reunion special if it was in the works. “People are begging us to really bring it back, and I would always be up for going back there and revisiting it, whether it be a documentary or a one-off special, because it was a massive part of my life and people loved it,” he added.

Sheridan Smith – Janet Keough

Janet was the homely girl who loved “things that go bleep bleep”, having a Cheeky Vimto down the pub and rich tea biscuits. Having been with Jonny since the start of the show, Janet realised she wasn’t in love with him after they got engaged and dumped him.

But she got jealous after seeing him with another woman and persuaded him to get back together – with the pair marrying in series 5. They had a son, Corinthian McVitie Keogh, but tragedy struck when Jonny was killed in a horrifying shark attack.

She realised that she loved Gaz but he chose to be with Donna, so she moved away to Milton Keynes. Sheridan Smith is the most famous star to come from the show – with her career sky-rocketing thanks to her talent.

The actress has received critical acclaim for her performances in a string of TV dramas including Mrs Biggs, Cilla, The C Word and The Moorside. She is also known for her comedy roles in Gavin & Stacey as Smithy’s sister, Benidorm, and Jonathan Creek.

As well as the telly she is a star of the stage, performing on the West End in Little Shop of Horrors, Legally Blonde, and Joseph.

Sheridan won two Olivier Awards, a BAFTA, an NTA and received two International Emmy Awards. But after her late father’s cancer diagnosis, the talented star was embroiled in a series of scandals.

She had a public “meltdown” in 2016 while starring in the West End adaptation of Funny Girl, amid reports of missing curtain calls, appearing on stage under the influence of alcohol, and disappointing the audience. Eventually she took a leave of absence from the show from “stress and exhaustion”.

Sheridan admitted hearing Graham Norton make a joke about her being a drunk while he was hosting the BAFTAs was her lowest point. “I was so humiliated,” she told an ITV documentary in 2020.

“It’s a room full of your peers, people you want to work with or have worked with. That night, for me, was like the final straw before my brain totally went off the deep end.

“Here I was in unbelievable distress, and a room full of people in my industry were laughing at me.”

But with therapy and tackling her drinking, Sheridan managed to recover and even discussed in 2021 wanting to be a part of any potential Two Pints reunion. “It would be quite funny to see where Janet ended up,” she mused at the time. “She’d probably have about 20 kids or something, still in the pub!”

It would have been music to the ears of her former co-star Will, who had claimed in 2020 that Sheridan hadn’t spoken to him in three years, and there would be no reunion if she wasn’t available.

Speaking on The Morning After With Paul Danan podcast in May of 2020, Will said: “Sheridan just won’t talk about it. She’s not spoken to me in over three years now. It’s like she just won’t pick up the phone about it. There is just no point in going down that route.

“I don’t know what happened, we last spoke about three, maybe four years ago and since then she won’t reply to my calls or text messages at all. I wanted to be there but she’s just not interested so there is no point in going there. We can’t get a Two Pints reunion together without her.”

Natalie Casey – Donna Henshaw

Loud-mouthed Donna was Gaz’s long-term girlfriend and then wife. Not afraid to say it how it is, Donna had a vicious temper and once killed an ex-boyfriend’s budgie.

Donna and Gaz briefly split after he had a one-night stand with her best pal Janet, during which time she considered plastic surgery, but they got back together after his accident. They finally married in series 7 but then Donna got a job in London and left Gaz. He then chose to be with her when she returned in series 8.

Donna had quite a tragic ending as she cancelled plans to travel the world with Gaz after finding out she may have cancer, but didn’t tell him the heartbreaking reason and waved goodbye at the airport.

Another former Hollyoaks cast member, actress Natalie Casey co-presented Big Brother’s Little Brother with Dermot O’Leary.

She went on to have a successful theatre career, starring in The Vagina Monologues, The Wedding Singer, Fame, and Legally Blonde. She has become a popular narrator and was the voice of Dinner Date. Since 2022 she has narrated Cash In The Attic.

Ralf Little – Jonny Keogh

Daytime TV lover Jonny had some very bizarre tastes, including eating cat food, desiccated coconut and a Jammy Dodger fetish. While Johnny had a secret obsession with Titanic and kids’ cartons, he struggled with his feminine side and lashed out at anyone who mocked him.

Unemployed Johnny, who described himself as a “lazy gobs***e”, tried to do best for his son and wife Janet. In a cruel twist at the start of series 7, Johnny was killed off-screen. Janet discovered he had been eaten by a shark after winning a shark-jumping competition in Hawaii.

Since his character’s demise, actor Ralf Little has appeared in BBC series Robin Hood and in 2019 was confirmed as the new lead star of Death in Paradise. At the start of lockdown, Will got together with Ralf to bring back the spirit of Two Pints with a new project.

In May 2020 they released a brand new podcast, Two Pints with Will & Ralf, to talk about the old days and have some pub banter while at home. Off the back of that success, the pair landed themselves a TV series, Will & Ralf Should Know Better, which has just announced it has been recommissioned for a second series.

Will said: “I’m so happy to be making a second series of this show with Ralf – we had so much fun filming series one and it seems the public loved it just as much as us. The reaction to series one was overwhelming.”

And Ralf added: “Somehow, they’ve let us do this again! I’m buzzing to be back with Will for round two — more adventures, more questionable decisions, and probably more moments where we ask, “What on earth are we doing?”. I’m incredibly grateful for the response to the first series, and I can’t wait to get started on the next.”

Ralf also filmed a travel series with former Royle Family co-star Ricky Tomlinson.

Kathryn Drysdale – Louise Brooks

Ditzy Louise was best known for that incredible high-pitched voice, which barmaid Kelly said “chills her to the bones”. She was always on the hunt for the man of her dreams but was always clinging onto her childish side – having a love of Sylvanian Families, Steps, and the Disney Store.

Louise was once arrested and charged with incitement to GBH after changing Johnny’s profile at the Office of National Statistics to that of an armed criminal, which resulted in him getting shot.

Louise got pregnant by Donna’s younger brother, Dion, calling her baby girl ‘Louise Louise Brooks’. She left Runcorn to join a “weird moon-worshipping cult” at the end of series 8 after meeting a new popstar boyfriend.

Louise was supposed to come back for the final series, but didn’t because actress Kathryn Drysdale was busy filming Benidorm.

She also appeared as Taylor in the first St Trinian’s movie. Kathryn has made guest appearances in Death in Paradise, Horrible Histories and Plebs, before landing the part of Meghan Markle in The Windsors.

Love Island stars Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury split in August last year, but rumours of their reunion have now been confirmed on a new episode of the influencer’s reality show

Molly-Mae Hague has confirmed she’s back with her ex-fiancé Tommy Fury after she opened up about their relationship on a new episode of her reality series, Molly-Mae: Behind It All.

The influencer and entrepreneur reflected on a trip she took to Dubai with Tommy and their two-year-old daughter, Bambi, which sparked rumours of their reunion. She said: “Dubai was picture perfect, like it was just the best trip ever. It literally just felt like everything I wanted it to be, and more.”

Molly-Mae added, in her Amazon Prime Video docuseries: “It was exactly what we needed. All the noise of everyone just switched off, everyone’s opinions. Nothing mattered. It was just like us in our bubble. She [Bambi] had the best time ever.”

Tommy and Molly-Mae first met back in Love Island in 2019, and went on to have Bambi together in January 2023. Later that year, Tommy proposed, but the pair announced their split in August 2024 in separate social media statements.

In the new episodes, Molly-Mae also announced that she was spending more time with Tommy. She revealed: “Things are looking so much better for us. I’m gonna start spending more time at Tommy’s house, keeping things slow and not rushing anything.”

However, she added that it wasn’t black-and-white moving forward, saying: “But as always, I always say I don’t know what the future holds. I don’t think it’s gonna be a plain sailing future. I don’t. That’s just me being honest. I think we’re still gonna have bumps.”

The 25-year-old said she still dreamed of living together with Tommy and their daughter again, and having more babies with him. “That’s all I’ve ever wanted for us. I don’t want to get too excited, but I’m getting glimmers of what I always wanted, which is my family. I know we have got something completely worth saving,” she explained.

While Molly-Mae was happy with how things were going, her sister Zoe expressed her concerns over whether Tommy could handle his drinking problems, which had previously been discussed on the show.

Molly-Mae told her sister: “Yeah, obviously he knows it’s the drink. He’s not drank now, like for what four months. But no, I don’t think the drink’s gone away forever. Could drink still be a problem for us? Potentially yes. But the break-up showed I was serious.”

She said that while she understood Zoe’s concerns, she felt Tommy was “really changing as a person”. Molly-Mae added: “I love Tommy so much and I love our family so much that I’m willing to ride the wave. And that’s not something that everyone wants to do, but it’s something that I’m willing to do because I want my family.”

The couple announced in August that they had split just over a year after Tommy got down on one knee and proposed. Just hours after their split was announced, social media users had speculated that Tommy had cheated on Molly. However, the Mirror revealed that Tommy had been left “distraught” by the “false allegations.”

Earlier this year, the Mirror revealed that Molly-Mae and Tommy had started rekindling their relationship over the Christmas period. A source close to the couple told us: “Friends of Molly and Tommy have been confused by Molly implying she’s a full-time single mum, as she and Tommy have been spending more time together and are rekindling their once almighty romance.”