It's the Daily Star so this particular little rumour probably has about as much truth to it as something you'd find written on the wall in a pub toilet, but Saturday's edition (no web link, sorry) claimed:
Doctor Who's new sidekick Freema Agyeman will strip to sex up doc.
Not sure what "sex up doc" means in this context.
July 24, 2006 | Reply
Dear me, please no... for a start I dare not think what Marie's reaction would be to this rumour...
July 24, 2006 | Reply
Not wishing to endorse the Kaiser Chiefs in any way, but "I predict a riot"
July 24, 2006 | Reply
This'll be the Daily Star as in "Jennifer Ellison to be next Doctor Who babe"?
July 24, 2006 | Reply
That's the one!
July 24, 2006 | Reply
But the series has such a big female (and gay? I bet it does) following now that really if anyone's gonna do the stripping.... I'll stop there cos I've weirded myself out.
July 24, 2006 | Reply
Yeah, it seems unlikely, I know. I said that from the outset.
What you have to realise is that 50% of the Star is for 18-24 year-old boys to wank off to; the other 50% is for girls who like salacious gossip that doesn't necessarily have to be true, just something to gossip about, and who are bored by The Mirror. Said rumour fulfils both criteria.
Doctor Who's a family show and family = no nudity. I imagine if there's even a hint of truth in it, it'll be along the lines of FA stripping off behind a great big partition to get into a spacesuit or something.
But I thought it amusing enough to put out there for everyone to enjoy.
July 24, 2006 | Reply
The closest the series has ever come to a nude scene was Jack in the Trinny'n'Susanna thing at the end of the first series. And they edited out his arse.
July 24, 2006 | Reply
Oddly enough, Jon Pertwee showed more arse I think in "Spearhead from Space". I might be hallucinating that one though.
July 24, 2006 | Reply
WRONG WAY ROUND! WRONG WAY ROUND! WRONG WAY ROUND!
NO gazing
NO stripping
NO sexing up
NO NO NO NO NO
July 24, 2006 | Reply
"NO gazing"
Haha that really made an impact with you, didn't it, Marie?!
And of course there'll be no stripping, but then, who'd have said two months ago that there'd be a joke about a slab of concrete and... well, you know.