Doctor Who Secrecy: Protecting Millie Gibson from Tabloids
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Millie Gibson Addresses False Reports During Doctor who Tenure
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The Situation: False Reports and BBC Restrictions
Millie Gibson has spoken out about being unable to respond to a series of reports made by British tabloids about her time on Doctor Who-out of concerns from the BBC that doing so could potentially jeopardize revealing then-upcoming storylines from the show.
Speaking to the I Paper, Gibson touched on a series of reports from British newspapers in 2023 that claimed that she had been dismissed from the series before she had even debuted as the doctor’s then-latest companion Ruby Sunday, alleging that the then-19-year-old star behaved like a “diva” on set.
Ruby Sunday’s Journey and Companion Changes
Gibson’s first full season of Doctor Who wouldn’t premiere until spring 2024,at the climax of which ruby chose to leave the TARDIS behind to spend time with her family,but she would continue to be a part of the Doctor’s life back on Earth by joining up with UNIT. By that point, however, set pictures and early reporting had confirmed that Andor star Varada Sethu had joined the series as its next companion, Belinda Chandra, and it wouldn’t be officially revealed by the BBC until April 2024, a month before Gibson’s debut season began, that she would continue to appear in the following season in 2025, in an irregular capacity alongside Ncuti gatwa and Sethu.
All that time, though, the BBC never formally acknowledged or denied the reports, leaving fans confused and Gibson at the mercy of public opinion even before she’d yet to really step foot out of the TARDIS. “I couldn’t be like, ‘It’s a lie!'[bec[bec[bec[bec