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SCOTLAND’s best-loved comedy stars Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill have ended their bitter feud to bring back Still Game’s Jack and Victor.

The cast will meet for the first time in six years next week after the pair agreed to bury the hatchet and take the hit BBC comedy back to its stage roots.

It means Ford and Greg will be reunited with Paul Riley (Winston), Jane McCarry (Isa), Sanjeev Kohli (Navid) and Gavin Mitchell (Boabby).

The news marks a complete turnaround for Scotland’s most successful comedy duo, who also co-wrote Chewin’ the Fat before deciding to go their separate ways due to “creative differences” in 2008.

Greg, who now lives in California with his wife and family after deciding to take his chances in Hollywood, revealed in the Record in January 2012 that the stress of filming six series of Still Game killed his and Ford’s friendship.

He said at the time: “It’s kind of sad, really.

“It reflects the pressure we were under that we never really acknowledged. We rarely took holidays. Stuff like that, it all bubbled up.

“Maybe in five or 10 years we’ll come back.”

In February, Ford hinted that he would consider a return for Still Game, saying: “I still have an enormous fondness for it and have always said it’s not dead. It’s just parked.”

And last week, series director Michael Hines told the Record he was desperate to revive the country’s favourite comedy – to kill off Jack or Victor.

His comments caused a frenzy of speculation among Still Game fans eager to see the pair and their Craiglang pals return – and yesterday they heard the news they wanted when the original cast announced a press conference for next Wednesday to announce an “exciting new venture”.

One excited viewer tweeted: “Gonnae no make us wait!”

The cast won’t announce full details yet but insiders told us the cast will tread the boards in a spectacular live stage production in much the same style as Mrs Brown’s Boys.

A source said: “Next week is going to be an amazing get-together.”

Still Game started as a stage play with three characters – Jack Jarvis, Victor McDade and Winston Ingram.

It was filmed at Glasgow’s Cottiers Theatre and released on DVD in 1999 before being turned into a multi-award-winning BBC show that proved a big ratings hit between 2002 and 2007.

Earlier this year, a little-known cast from the Sonic Boom Theatre Company put on a production of the original stage play to raise funds for charity Age Concern.