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Dominique Hines

‘We quite like it!’ David Tennant wants to work with wife Georgia again after their ‘fun’ lockdown show Staged

David Tennant has said he and his wife Georgia Tennant "discovered" that they really enjoyed working together on film projects and would like to do it again.

The Doctor Who actor, 51, starred in and worked alongside his wife on the pair’s BBC comedy series Staged during lockdown.

He described the experience as "fun", adding: "It’s not something we’d done a lot of, but then suddenly we’re locked in our house and if you’re going to make a TV show there are only the people next to you who you can make it with.”

He told Times Radio: “It was a very particular set of circumstances."

“Also, we’ve discovered we enjoy working together.

David and Georgia Tennant feature in their BBC comedy series Staged together (BBC/GCB Films/Infinity Hill/)

“Doing Staged, when we were effectively filming ourselves and directing ourselves, staging the whole thing, we discovered we quite like it.

“It’s quite fun, so we’re quite happy to do that increasingly... It just made sense."

However, Tennant did admit that the pair, who married in  2011, would’ve been reluctant to have embarked on the project had it been earlier in their relationship.

He said: “We’ve been together a long time, we’ve got a billion kids. We’re more of a robust structure, so I don’t think we were quite so nervous as we once were."

The couple met in 2008, when Georgia appeared in the BBC series Doctor Who as the Time Lord’s genetically engineered daughter Jenny.

The actor adopted Georgia’s son, Ty, 19, from a previous relationship.

The pair went on to have three daughters, Olive, 10, Doris, six, and Birdie, 23 months, and a son, Wilfred, eight.

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