Ruth Jones says she still feels like she is in her 30s – despite now suffering from arthritis in her knee. The Gavin & Stacey star, 53, said: “If you’d asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I’d probably have imagined someone like my grandmother. "I’d have looked like a little old lady who went for a shampoo and set every week. "But it’s funny – when you get to your 50s it’s not like that at all because apart from a few aches and pains, I feel like I’m in my 30s.
Perhaps I ought to behave accordingly.” On her health issues she told Woman&Home magazine: “Perhaps should have been more careful with my health.