Date 09/03/2017 - News People
Paul McGann is backing Tilda Swinton to become the first female Doctor Who. The 57-year-old actor portrayed the Eighth Doctor on screen in the one-off 1996 'Doctor Who' TV film and again in the 2013 mini-episode 'The Night of the Doctor' which preceded the 50th anniversary special 'The Day of the Doctor' which showed him regenerate into the War Doctor played by the late John Hurt. Asked by the panel on 'Loose Women' on Thursday (09.03.17) if it we should get a female Doctor, he said: "Yeah, wherever you're from there's females yeah?