Gail Holloway (Christine Estabrook) is Joan's mother, who arrives to keep with Joan just after Joan's son Kevin is born. Later, in Little Britain Abroad, after last but not least finding married, they go on a honeymoon to Belgium, in which they stay with Dudley's brother, who has married a attractive Russian bride called Ivanka (which is basically not a Russian presented identify) who statements to be 18 decades old.