{"id":50087,"date":"2022-11-18T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=50087"},"modified":"2022-11-18T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:17:08","slug":"and-the-new-doctor-who-companion-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/and-the-new-doctor-who-companion-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the new Doctor Who companion is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Millie Gibson, of Coronation Street fame, has been announced as the new companion to Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s incarnation of The Doctor.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Materialising on stage live at Children in Need, Millie Gibson, known for playing Kelly Neelan in long-running soap, Coronation Street, stepped from the TARDIS, to meet Mel Giedroyc and Jason Manford and announce to the world that she was taking on the role of the companion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gibson also revealed that her character&#8217;s name would be Ruby Sunday, or Ruby Sundae, after Mel quickly probed Gibson on the spelling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PSn4_nR00rA\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gibson was not among the top of the fan speculation as to who might be taking the role of the companion, as most Whovian speculators expected Strictly star Rose Ayling-Ellis to be securing the role.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctor Who is set to return with 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary specials in 2023 with David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Neil Patrick-Harris and Ncuti Gatwa. It\u2019s unclear whether we could expect Gibson to appear in these specials, or make a full appearance when the full series returns.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Writing: Kiefer Jones | Subbing: Summer Rogers | Featured Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-63675140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millie Gibson, of Coronation Street fame, has been announced as the new companion to Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s incarnation of The Doctor.&nbsp; Materialising on stage live at Children in Need, Millie Gibson, known for playing Kelly Neelan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":50093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,132],"tags":[1892],"class_list":["post-50087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-culture","category-tv","tag-doctor-who"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50098,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50087\/revisions\/50098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}