How Gavin & Stacey turned ‘dangerous’ crime-ridden Barry into unlikely holiday hotspot…with 30,000 invading OAP’s home

CRIPPLED with arthritis and surviving on sickness benefits, Glenda Kenyon was at rock bottom when a letter that was to change her life dropped through her front door.

The letter was from a location manager working a TV and film company and he wanted to know if she would be interested in hiring out her neat, terraced home in Barry, south Wales, for “a comedy drama”.