Big Boys creator and writer Jack Rooke was a guest on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch

The hit drama came to an end with its third series last year.

Big Boys creator and writer Jack Rooke has made an emotional confession about the hit Channel 4 series.

The moving programme about a university student dealing with his dad’s death and exploring his sexuality wrapped up last year after three series. The semi-autobiographical comedy drama, which starred Dylan Llewellyn as Jack and Jon Pointing as fellow student Danny, was a huge hit with viewers who were gutted when it ended.

Speaking on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, Jack admitted he was really missing the show himself.

He said: “I’ve started to miss it, and I didn’t, because it came out maybe February last year, so for the year afterwards, I was like, ‘Oh, I’m glad that’s done.’

“And then the last few weeks, I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s sad that we’re not filming another scene.’ Because we filmed every summer for like three years in a row. So I’m sad about it.”

“I loved them all,” he said of the cast, joking: “I just terrorise them all all the time. They can’t really get away from me… They’re great.”

Jack told the show’s hosts Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer: “We are kind of that sickly thing of we actually all just do genuinely love each other, which is so horrible when you hear actors or people being like, ‘We’re like a family.’

“I’m like, ‘Yeah, all right. Three of you hate each other. Two of you are slagging each other off in the WhatsApp, in another WhatsApp group you don’t know about’.”

Jack also opened up about his stage show Good Grief, which he wrote in his 20s, having lost his dad when he was in his teens.

“I wrote that show with my nan,” he said. “It was when I was at uni, and I stole loads of equipment from my uni to spend a day filming with her. So the whole show is sort of about me losing a parent at 15 and her losing a child at 80.

“And there will be lots of people watching today for whom Father’s Day is a tricky one. I’m firmly in the Dead Dad Club, and I believe that the more you can sort of find community in that, the less sort of scary and hard it is.

“And humour is the best way to do that.”

Sunday Brunch airs on Channel 4 on Sundays at 10am.