Mathew Horne: Career, Gavin and Stacey Role and Confirmed Facts

Full name: Mathew Frazer Horne · Date of birth: 6 September 1978 · Place of birth: Nottingham, England · Best-known role: Gavin in Gavin & Stacey (2007)

Eight entries below cover the record, and one pattern runs through them: the dated facts are about his career, while personal details are absent or thin.

Where does Mathew Horne live now?

What the provided sources confirm about location

• The supplied sources name no current city or country for Horne.
• The only location detail in the record is his birthplace, Nottingham, England, which is documented in the snapshot above.

Why current residence is not reported

• The search snippets and the supplied reporting give no residence, so the gap sits in the record itself.
• A birthplace shows where someone started, not where they live now.

What this means: any claim of a current city for Horne would be guesswork, and this page does not guess.

Does Mathew Horne have a child?

What is confirmed about family

• Horne married set designer Celina Bassili in September 2021 in Norway, according to the Daily Mirror (celebrity reporting).
• That marriage is the only dated family detail in the supplied reporting.

What remains unverified

• The supplied sources do not confirm whether Horne has children.
• Searches about children do not produce a verified answer.

The implication: a documented marriage does not answer the question of children, and readers should not treat one as proof of the other.

Are James Corden and Mathew Horne friends?

The reported feud

• Corden’s 2011 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories remarks, in which he said they never fell out, are summarised by Radio X (TV and film news site).
• Horne said he is “protective” of Corden, and NME (music and TV news) reports he attributed criticism of Corden largely to jealousy.

What public statements are documented

• In 2019, Corden said he hoped the pair would work together one day, after Horne declined to take part in Piers Morgan’s programme, according to the Daily Mirror (celebrity reporting).
• Hello! Magazine (celebrity news) recounts Horne’s Sunday Post comments on the friendship.

The catch: the record shows warmth from both men, but no dated statement settles whether they are close today.

How old was Gavin in Gavin and Stacey?

Gavin as Horne’s best-known role

• According to Kinorium (film database), Horne’s run is recorded as 2007–2024 with the character Gavin Shipman.
• Gavin is the role that drives most public interest in Horne’s name.

Why the character age is not stated

• The supplied inputs do not state Gavin’s exact age.
• Coverage of the series centres on the cast and finale rather than on the character’s age.

What this means: the age question has no sourced answer, so this page offers none.

What films and TV has Mathew Horne appeared in?

Gavin and Stacey (2007) and related credits

• Horne and James Corden co-starred in the 2009 film Lesbian Vampire Killers, according to Wikipedia (encyclopedia biography).
• Horne appeared in Bad Education and in The Tempest at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2024–2025, per Irish News (PA wire report).

Other titles named in searches, including Horrid Henry and Game of Thrones

• The supplied sources do not confirm any role for Horne in Horrid Henry or Game of Thrones.
• Planet 51 appears among search-result credits without a dated source, so this page does not treat it as confirmed.

The pattern: the sourced filmography clusters around Gavin and Stacey and recent stage work, and the rest remains unproven.

Timeline of the feud claims

• 2011: Corden tells Piers Morgan’s Life Stories they never fell out (Radio X (TV and film news site)).
• December 2019: The Christmas special ends on a cliffhanger with Nessa proposing to Smithy (Manchester Evening News (regional newspaper)).
• Christmas Day 2024: The final episode airs at 9pm on BBC One, described as the most-watched scripted programme in more than two decades (Oxford Mail (regional newspaper)).

The pattern: the dated statements about the feud stretch from 2011 to 2024, and none of them describes a current rift.

Confirmed and unconfirmed

Confirmed

• Gavin & Stacey first aired in 2007 (Chortle (comedy news site)).
• Horne married Celina Bassili in September 2021 (Daily Mirror (celebrity reporting)).
• The final episode aired on Christmas Day 2024 (Oxford Mail (regional newspaper)).

Unconfirmed or disputed

• Current residence
• Whether Horne has children
• Any net worth figure
• Whether the pair are close today, beyond Horne’s own 2016 and 2024 statements

The catch: the unconfirmed list covers the personal questions readers search for most, so the confirmed career dates carry the page.

What the two men have said

“James remains a friend and never wasn’t a friend. We have remained friends ever since we met.”

Mathew Horne, in the Evening Standard (London newspaper)

“We never fell out, that was never what it was.”

James Corden, as reported by HuffPost UK (news site)

“I am protective of him.”

Mathew Horne, in NME (music and TV news)

The pattern: both men deny a falling out, so the dispute concerns how the friendship was described, not whether it existed.

Where the record stands

The career record is solid enough to rely on, while the private-life questions have no sourced answers yet. Any outlet that names Horne’s home city or children is publishing a guess, because the sourced record stops at his career.

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