Love Actually Stars Reunite After 22 Years!

stars and Joanna Page enjoyed a surprise reunion during Tuesday's episode of The One Show, 22 years after starring in the iconic film.

The pair famously starred as film stand-ins John and Judy who started a shy romance together. 

After sharing their delight at appearing on The One Show sofa together, both Martin, 54, and Joanna, 49, said it had been over 20 years since they last saw each other.

The duo joined a huge ensemble of actors including Martin McCutcheon, , and in the 2003 film.

Starting the show, host Alex Jones said: 'We cannot ignore that this is a reunion, a Love Actually reunion. 

'We won’t mention how the couple got together, the characters you played. But it’s nice Martin isn’t it to be on the sofa with Joanna?'

Martin added: 'We were just saying, we haven’t seen each other for…' before Joanna noted it had been '20 odd years.'

'Probably 20 odd years. We filmed it in 2002/2003,' the Sherlock star said.

Joanna said: 'I was getting married in 2003 so missed the premiere. So, I didn’t actually see the film when it first came out. So yes 20 odd years ago.' 

As the Gavin and Stacey star joked: 'I don’t think we’ve aged at all,' Martin added: 'No, I think we’ve gone backwards.'

While Joanna spoke about her new BBC series Shift the Thrift, Martin was joined by co-star Molly Belle Wright to discuss their new murder mystery film Flavia.

The 2003 feel-good flick, featuring separate stories that eventually come together and unite everyone during the holiday period, has long cemented its status as a Christmas classic.

Director Richard Curtis has spoken about making the choice to axe two scenes - one featuring a lesbian couple, and another which is set in Kenya - for both duration and because they simply 'didn't fit' the movie.

One heartbreaking scene, which was lost, is between a stern headmistress, played by Anne Reid, who returned home from work to look after her terminally-ill partner Geraldine - actress Frances de la Tour.

The couple are linked to Emma Thompson's character Karen, whose son attended the school where Anne Reid's character worked.

Recently, Richard revealed that he thought Love Actually was a disaster after he finished filming.

The director, 68, confessed that he was worried about the success of the film and almost gave up as he was editing it, believing it would never work.

The Four Weddings and a Funeral creator told the Radio Times: 'We thought Love Actually was a disaster for months while we were trying to edit it.'

The star director added: 'I only thought of setting Love Actually at Christmas halfway through the writing process. I was thinking, 'How can I squeeze all these stories to end at the same time?'

Richard also confessed that he finds it amusing now that people have such strong feelings towards one of his most famous films.

He told the publication that during his latest film, the animated Netflix offering That Christmas, the children complain about having to watch a 'boring Christmas film' and it turns out to be Love Actually.

Speaking of the filming he said: 'I assumed they'd take a clip from some stiff American movie of the 1940s or 50s like Miracle on 34th Street.

'So, I turn up on the day and it's the kids watching, as they say, the 'boring Christmas movie', and they'd stuck in Love Actually.'

Off the back of Richard's latest project, he explained that he realised all the films he makes are the same and was surprised when he noticed the similarities between some of his major movies.