The woman who lives in the real Gavin and Stacey house in Barry has thanked the TV show for bringing 30,000 to her door, helping her beat loneliness.

Glenda Kenyon, 66, owns the terraced house used as the set for the home of Gwen in the TV favourite, which is back on our screens on Christmas Day.

She has had more than 30,000 visitors travelling to her South Wales home to see the house where Stacey grew up with her mother.

Ms Kenyon believes the show transformed her life after years off work with chronic depression.

She said: "It was a lonely life - I was going through hell with the depression. I never had many people to talk to. But now I have people coming from all over the world to see the Gavin and Stacey house. I love it - it has changed my life for the better."

Ms Kenyon - who has suffered from arthritis - has had her home used in virtually every episode since 2006.

More than a decade ago, TV bosses were combing the Welsh seaside resort for possible locations to shoot a new comedy.

Producers eventually selected her house in Barry as Stacey's family home in the BBC show. The home of Bryn - played by Rob Brydon - sits opposite on Trinity Street.