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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Martin Belam

Jodie Whittaker exits Doctor Who with surprise regeneration twist

Jodie Whittaker in The Power of the Doctor
Jodie Whittaker in The Power of the Doctor – she played the Time Lord for four years. Photograph: Sarah Weal/BBC Studios

Jodie Whittaker’s tenure as the first woman to lead Doctor Who came to a spectacular end after four years on Sunday night in a special episode featuring a host of returning faces from the 59-year-old show’s past – and a surprise twist when she regenerated not into her recently announced successor, Ncuti Gatwa, but into the returning Time Lord David Tennant.

Fans still got their first glimpse of Gatwa however, when he appeared briefly in a trailer at the end of the programme, saying “Someone tell me what the hell is going on here?”

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