Oscar Hartland, 16, who portrayed Neil Smithy and Nessa and Smithy’s son in the wildly popular television series Gavin and Stacey, received just two grades this week.
Oscar Hartland, the 16 year old actor who played Baby Neil in Gavin and Stacey alongside James Corden and Ruth Jones, has failed his GCSEs – but he has a back-up plan!
The young actor, who played Neil in the hit series Nessa and Smithy, only managed to pass two subjects this week.
Despite this, Oscar continues to be enthralled and has chosen to leave school to pursue a career in show business, combining his acting and singing passions.
Oscar, who was 14 when he appeared on The Voice Kids and advanced to the semi-finals, collected his GCSE results this week, but only received two passes. His two preferred subjects, English and music, were almost passed on an A.
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Oscar said, “I got a whopping two!” But I’m happy with that because I wanted to get a top-notch music education. I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t try that hard because I’m not an academic.
He continued, telling the Mail Online, “The hard way,” that he was prepared to transition into music as a musician. “Is an executive at one of the top recording labels going to inquire about my GCSE results?” Not in my opinion.
Oscar entered the world of showbiz fresh out the womb, when he appeared in four episodes of Gavin and Stacey as Neil the Baby, the product of a one-night stand between Smithy and Nessa.
He returned to the nation’s favourite sitcom as a 10-year-old Neil the Baby in the 2019 Christmas special and again in 2024 as a teen. The gifted schoolboy had a starring role in the final episode last Christmas when he sang the Beatles’ song Blackbird while playing the guitar, watched by a staggering 19.1m viewers.
Oscar, however, doesn’t blame his distracting television shows for his poor GCSE results at St Martin’s Comprehensive in Caerphilly, South Wales.
He claims that the issue stems from his having “hated school” and having his head “was always in other places” while attending college. The aspiring musician believes that those who aren’t naturally academic are subject to a flawed system.
According to earlier this year’s statistics, Gavin and Stacey’s final episode is the most watched TV program in the UK on Christmas Day in 23 years.
Official ratings for the sitcom’s 90-minute farewell, which was the centrepiece of BBC One’s 2024 festive schedules, are 19.1 million. This is the biggest audience for a Christmas Day broadcast on UK television since the episode of Only Fools & Horses on December 25 2001, which attracted 21.3 million viewers.
The ratings agency Barb has released the figures, which include everyone who watched and recorded the program up until seven days later, which is the industry standard for determining TV audience size.
Additionally, those who watched on smartphones, PCs, and tablets are included. Vengeance Most Fowl, a brand-new Wallace &, Gromit adventure, did well to win 16.3 million viewers on Christmas Day 2024.
The figures place Gavin & Stacey and Wallace & Gromit in third place, surpassing Line of Duty, which attracted 15.8 million viewers for its 2021 finale, with the top two most-watched scripted programs of the decade.
The biggest TV audience of the 2020s remains the broadcast by former prime minister Boris Johnson on March 23 2020 announcing the first Covid-19 lockdown, which was shown simultaneously on six TV channels and drew an average audience of 28.3 million.
Source: Mirror
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