Daniel Rigby: “I’ve No Idea Where Twelfth Doctor Rumours Came From”

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Cast you mind back to August 2013. Matt Smith was leaving Doctor Who, and everyone was speculating who would take over from him. One name being flung about was Daniel Rigby, a man who most called “the guy from the BT adverts” but also gave a truly incredible performance in Eric and Ernie. Oh, the papers really thought it was him.

Needless to say, it wasn’t.

Peter Capaldi is our Twelfth Doctor. But what did Rigby think of these rumours? In an interview with BT, he revealed that the speculation seemed to come from nowhere:

“I have no idea where it came from and I have no idea whether I was anywhere near a list for a meeting. I didn’t meet anyone for it and it all seemed to happen within the space of a week.

I was doing a play at the time up in Edinburgh and my own sketch show. All these acts in the sketch show kept coming up to me and talking about it and one of them. One of them put £300 on me and I kept saying, ‘I’m not! I’m not’. And they all just said, ‘Oh you would say that’. I couldn’t convince them.

It was a massive compliment to be linked to it though.”

It sounds like he’s a fan, so perhaps he’ll be up for appearing in the show if the right part comes up…

At the moment, he’s busy publicising a new show in which he stars opposite Jonathan Creek star, Sarah Alexander: he calls Undercover “a high stakes comedy with bits of weirdness”, in which he plays a police officer out of his depth as he goes undercover in a vicious Armenian family. It also stars the beautiful Yasmine Akram, perhaps best-known as Janine from the third series of Sherlock.

Undercover starts tonight at 9pm on Dave.

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