Social media has been going mad for the rumours. One said “A sequel without James Corden?”, one said “Shut the hell up right now” and another more reserved soul said “I’m not getting my hopes up because Alison and Larry work together loads and are really good friends – could be anything.” Related stories recommended by this writer:

He also would have installed a permanent hand sanitiser dispenser outside of his house, because you never can be too careful. Coronavirus has affected us all in ways we never could have imagined over the last year. With it nearly being a year since the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special, we cant help but think what it would have been like if it had taken place in the current climate. Here’s how we think the characters of our favourite comedy would have reacted to corona at Christmas: Pam’s abso gutted she can’t go to ju jitsu with fat-no-more PatSo your dilemma feels very ironic to me... Anyway, it can certainly be done, since I'm a real life example. I just use "for goodness' sake" and "how on earth" and "Gosh" instead. I'm aware "Gosh" is a tad controversial lol. You could just stop short at "Oh my..." Somehow I take OMG and WTF differently though - I don't seem to see them as words. And yeah I'm a Christian, so yes I've literally avoided those phrases all my life. None of my friends at church use it either - both in the UK and in my current international church in the Czech Republic, which boasts probably a good 40 different nations in our congregation. None of us use it. So it's not a cultural thing in the national sense. It's part of Christian culture. It's a religious thing. He’s been writing the Zoom quizzes every week without fail, but is struggling a tad with these new technologies, so writes the questions by hand and posts them out to everyone in advance. We love to see it Bryn. The bonus question is always, ‘What’s my name in English?’. If you do need a concept though, an 'Oh ---!' something or a 'By ----!" something, that depends on worldbuilding.

Your options are probably limited to making up new words, using substitutions and pretending they don't mean exactly what they do mean or getting a little silly. Actually, there's a fourth alternative that @JLT touched on, which is a total old-school sci-fi trope and still falls into both the substitutions and laughably silly categories in my opinion, which is to make up oaths like "Gragnar's beard!" and "by the rings of Saturn!" EDIT: Yeah, Smeg is a good example. Watch Red Dwarf to see how such a term becomes ingrained in the audience. Gav is one of the more chilled out members of the cast. He would have been trying to keep Stacey and the kids calm whilst simultaneously trying to work from a tiny home office with endless distractions from his family. He’s at the end of his tether with this home teaching malarkey, and can be seen having a stress fag in the garden on the hour every hour.The pictures have surfaced on the seafront of Barry Island, the Welsh town where Gwen, Bryn, Nessa, Stacy, Gavin and their offspring all live. Rumours circulated once the pictures emerged that the pictures are from the filming of new episodes of the iconic sitcom. However, naysayers are stating that the filming is actually for an advert for Barrybados – a souvenir shop in Barry Island that sells Gavin & Stacey merchandise. If there’s not a Nessa doll with different iconic outfits, I will riot. Personally. Smithy is relaxed and calm as usual, his main problem with coronavirus is that he can no longer go down The Dophin with Gav for a catch up and a pint. As he’s on furlough he’s moved in with Nessa so he can be with Neil the Baby – or so he says… There is certainly no need to cut ALL biblical terms/phrases, as most of them are not at all that obviously tied to religion. 'An eye for an eye' as an example, is already a term most people (me included) would not know its origins of. Or the term 'guardian' is also still in use in my setting, as in 'legal guardian', but not as in 'angel guardian'. We have a phrase that literally means "There's surely been a mistake!?" (it's 4 words, all monosyllabic, so it rolls off the tongue, unlike in English). This one's the most common, esp for cries of outrage. Let's say if you're walking past and someone drops rubbish from the flat above and almost hits you. You might look up and say "There's surely been a mistake!?" (it makes more sense in Cantonese - no one takes the literal meaning of the words)

Nessa is relaxed in most situations, but like Pam wouldn’t tolerate rule breaking. You can guarantee she would have been shouting “Oh Stace, I’m not being funny but pull your mask up over your nose.” Oh Empress!" or "By the King!" or such. "Jesus Christ" can be substituted by a historical figure in your world, instances "Ghenghis Khan!" or "Teddy Rose!" or such. Now, this depends on your world. If you have a billion humans in one city, "By the Hive!" or if there is a race of sentient trees that guide the humans, "Oh my Grove!" Other phrases might be "How can this be?" Really, majority of the time we just say "Aiya" - a catch-all that means anything you want depending on the context and tone with which you say it. It could mean "Ouch", "oh no", "Shit", "oh dear" etc.

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We guess we’ll never know how our favourite TV stars reacted to corona, and maybe it’s for the best. All we know is that if the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special had have been this year, then things would have been very different in Barry and Essex. Related articles recommended by this writer: Bryn’s home gym is strictly off limits to everyone in Barry, and has been since the Covid announcement in March. He’s refusing to let Smithy stay in the house for Christmas, which has been a shambles in itself, and now there’s a crate of green juices going off in the fridge. Ness has told the whole family they won’t even be getting a Celebration chocolate this year because let’s be honest Stace, this year’s been hard enough alri.