Millie Gibson reflects on not being able to defend herself from tabloid reports during her time on Doctor Who. With all the speculation currently swirling around Doctor Who, as Disney’s deal with the BBC to make the show comes to an end, it’s easy to overlook that we’ve had two seasons of the programme in ... Doctor Who | Millie Gibson on being unable to defend herself due to spoilers
Millie Gibson reflects on not being able to defend herself from tabloid reports during her time on Doctor Who.
With all the speculation currently swirling around Doctor Who, as Disney’s deal with the BBC to make the show comes to an end, it’s easy to overlook that we’ve had two seasons of the programme in two years. That certainly hadn’t happened for a while.
Furthermore, there was something of a clickbait storm during the first season of Ncuti Gatwa’s time in the TARDIS, when it was announced that Varada Sethu would be the main companion for the second season run. That left Millie Gibson, playing the character of Ruby Sunday, facing a collection of questions she wasn’t able to answer. Had she been fired? Did she know she wasn’t going to be the main companion for the second series when she signed on the dotted line? What had gone on?
Gibson was still in her late teens, and has confessed in a new interview with The I Paper that she felt in a “tough” position. Given that she was appearing in the second season, she wanted to be able to refute the stories that she was off the show. But she couldn’t, as she knew she needed to protect the spoilers of the show.
“I couldn’t like, ‘it’s a lie’, because they’d be like, ‘well that’s spoilers.’” Instead, she had to take it, and wasn’t able to push back, while people wrote pretty much what they liked.
“It was awful”, she added. Not least when people came up to her telling her it was awful what’d happened to her, that she’d been removed from the show. Yet she knew that wasn’t the case, but wasn’t able to say anything.
Still, she formed a kinship with Ncuti Gatwa, and their partnership seemed to build with the pair of them stuck in this bubble together.
The full piece with The I Paper is worth a read, and you can find it here.
In the meantime, the future of Doctor Who remains up in the air at the moment, and we’re not expecting any announcements or news until Disney has aired next year’s spin-off series, The War Between The Land And The Sea. After that, the expectation is that the search for a new production partner will intensify, if it hasn’t already.
