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Still Game star breaks silence on potential return for iconic comedy

He also promoted an upcoming event THAT'S PLENTY! Still Game star breaks silence on potential return for iconic comedy Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A STILL Game star has spoken out on rumours about the show's rumoured return. The legendary comedy show - which became a cultural icon - came to an end in 2019. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 3 Still Game became a cultural sensation Credit: BBC 3 Mark Cox as tight-fisted Tam Mullen Credit: BBC Telly fans bid farewell to the nation's favourite pensioners as the Craiglang cohort left our screens for the last time. But there has still been chat of the cast getting back together with fans always eager to see Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan bring back Victor McDade and Jack Jarvis Esq. Although rumours of a reunion were well and truly put to bed by star Mark Cox, who played tight-fisted OAP Tam Mullen in the show. He made it clear fans should be wary of listening to anything that sounds like it came from the show's gossip Isa when hearing about a Still Game return. Cox, 53, rubbished ideas that the cast could return for a Still Game movie. He told The Glasgow Times: "There's been talk of how you would even do a movie. "Do they work, comedy movies like that? "I don't know. I don't even know where that rumour started." The actor, who recently starred as a top cop in Netflix crime drama Dept Q even told how he is still recognised far and wide for his time as the penny-pinching pensioner, even being quizzed about the show while in New York. Still Game earned a permanent place in the hearts of the people of Scotland. Forgotten Still Game character unmasked more than two decades after iconic episode The jokes and one-liners spouted by the characters are repeated by fans young and old across the country. It has become such a sensation the cast even got a mural on the side of a Glasgow building. But Cox reckons fans will appreciate hearing some of his tales when he hosts shows across Scotland later this year. He will be taking to the stage at Bo'ness Town Hall on August 23 and Glasgow's Woodside Halls on October 25. He said: "I was in Chewin' The Fat before Still Game for a long time, and there are lots of stories and different things about growing up in the East End, being an actor and becoming an actor in a place where no one was an actor. "I look forward to speaking to the audiences, that's a thing I quite like doing. "People come, they know who I am, and it feels as if you're in the right place, you're not trying to impress, you come with the stories and other stuff you've got to tell them, and audiences are great. "They eat it up, they love it."