David Tennant has given an enigmatic response to the rumours that he could be set to make a return as The Doctor after Jodie Whittaker bows out this year.
After becoming the first woman to play the Time Lord in the history of the show, she will exit in style with an epic battle against The Master, The Daleks and The Cybermen.
But in a new shocking twist, Coral bookmakers have got Doctor Who legend David Tennant, 51, as the number one odds-on favourite to become the next Doctor and replace Whittaker, who took over from Peter Capaldi in 2017.
With Russell T Davies returning as showrunner, bookies have him as the clear frontrunner for the next person to take up the coveted role at 4-5, head and shoulders above the next placed Lydia West at 4-1.
The Scottish actor, who played the tenth Doctor under Russell’s tenure, has now responded to the rumours about his imminent return during an appearance at German Comic-Con in Dortmund this week.
The Comic-Con presenter put to David that he had “heard something” a “little birdy” told him, raising his possible return to the hit BBC science fiction show.
David responded: “Was that little birdy the internet?”
He continued: “The thing about this is, I’ve been asked a version of this question for the last 20 years.
“I’ve learned, through bitter experience, that there’s no point even answering it. Because whatever I say is spun by whoever wants to hear it.
“There’s no point in me denying it, there’s no point in me confirming it.
“Whatever I say will become whatever the internet wants it to be.”
He added after a pause: “It would be quite a weird idea. It’s not something that you would necessarily expect from Doctor Who. I’m not going to try giving any more than that – what’s the point?!”
This comes after David’s wife Georgia Tennant told the Mirror she wooed her husband David by watching him in Hamlet 27 times when they first started dating.
The actress, 37, travelled to Stratford-upon-Avon to see the Doctor Who star appear in the Shakespeare tragedy “slightly against [her] will”.
Georgia – who now has five children with David – said: “I’d just learnt to drive, and the only place I knew how to drive to was to drive to Stratford.
“So I would do it twice a week. I couldn’t really drive anywhere else. I just knew that road.
“Then I would be forced to go and watch Shakespeare plays.
“Hamlet on repeat is a bit much. I put the work in, it was like 27 times I saw it. I really liked him.”
David played Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre from July to November 2008 and reviews described him as “captivating”.
