The Singing Guest Stars
The BBC have announced two major guest stars for this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special. The first is legendary British actor Michael Gambon - famous for playing Dumbledore in the last few Harry Potter films and for his starring role in The Singing Detective. The other name revealed is that of Katherine Jenkins (pictured above) - who is famous for singing. This will be the very first acting role for the famous Welsh opera singer, who learned of her casting on her 30th birthday just a couple of weeks ago.
The 2010 Christmas special is written by Steven Moffat, and we won’t say more about it for now for spoiler reasons as we wait for the current season to finish broadcasting on Space and BBC America.
Posted by Luca on Monday, July 12 at 5:23 am
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Mr. Gambon’s addition makes it certain that this Christmas special, written by the talented Mr. Moffat, would be great. I hope Ms. Jenkins does well here also.
Posted by Pinoy_TARDIS on 07/12 at 01:20 PM
Coincidentally, CNN.com ran a major feature on Jenkins only a few days ago, dubbing her “The best voice you’ve never heard” as she launches a bid for US stardom after several years of popularity in the UK. That’s actually the same path Kylie Minogue was following when she was cast. I bet Charlotte Church - with whom Jenkins has been compared - must be a bit put off as she’s been trying for a Doctor Who part for years! Anyway, I saw the interview with Jenkins and she seems quite personable. I’m sure she’ll do well. And Gambon is a great choice.
I’m glad the BBC is continuing with the Christmas special tradition!
PS: someone needs to fix the captcha program - I had a heck of a time getting this message to be accepted. I’d type the word exactly but it didn’t recognize it.
Posted by Alex on 07/13 at 12:16 PM
She looks so gorgeous
Posted by Alex on 02/13 at 02:39 AM
Thank you so much for this article it was a great read!
Posted by Christmas Countdown on 08/04 at 09:20 PM
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