{"id":168834,"date":"2025-09-29T19:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168834\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:58:11","slug":"colin-baker-says-billie-piper-cant-be-the-next-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/168834\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Baker says Billie Piper ‘can’t be the next Doctor Who’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The 82-year-old portrayed the Sixth Doctor, preceded by Peter Davidson and succeeded by\u00a0Sylvester McCoy, staying in the role from 1984 until 1986.\n<\/p>\n

\n He has since reappeared in the show alongside the Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, and also took part in the 12th series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in eighth place.\n<\/p>\n

\n Appearing at Abbey-Con 2025 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Mr Baker had an exclusive chat with the Oxford Mail.\n<\/p>\n

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\n Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor in the 1980s.(Image: BBC)\n<\/p>\n

\n His iconic role of the Doctor was most recently played by Scottish star Ncuti Gatwa before the Barbie regenerated back in May.\n<\/p>\n

\n Departing the titular role, he changed into Billie Piper, which surprised fans as the Swindon actress had previously played fan favourite companion Rose Tyler alongside Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.\n<\/p>\n

\n When asked for his thoughts on the shock regeneration, Mr Baker said: “I don’t have a clue, but I suspect it’s a load of old malarky.\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE: Billie Piper becomes new Doctor Who after Ncuti Gatwa regeneration<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Ncuti Gatwa regenerated into Billie Piper earlier this year.(Image: BBC Studios \/ Bad Wolf \/ James Pardon)\n<\/p>\n

\n “I think they didn’t know what to say, so they did that. I think there will be something involving Billie Piper, but she’s not the Doctor, who can she be?\n<\/p>\n

\n “She’s someone else! It’s like me being the Master, well, I could be, I suppose.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I suppose she could be a lookalike, but they could come up with anything, and that is the joy of the series.\n<\/p>\n

\n “You can do anything with it, so if they choose to do it, they could.”\n<\/p>\n

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\n Colin Baker at Abbey-Con 2025.(Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n

\n When prompted to name who he’d like to see next in the iconic role of the Doctor, Mr Baker said: “I think it would be quite nice if it was someone completely different.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I’d pick my daughter Rosie, she’d be very good.”\n<\/p>\n

\n The former timelord lives close to the Oxfordshire border and is set to star in a play in Henley next week.\n<\/p>\n

\n Speaking at Abbey-Con 2025, he said: “It’s lovely, yes. I live not far from here, between Marlow and Henley, so I’m in the area.”\n<\/p>\n

\n READ MORE: Former Doctor Who coming to Oxfordshire to meet fans<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n Colin Baker with Daleks and the Tardis at Abbey-Con 2025.(Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n

\n “Last year I was touring as Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles, and this year we are doing The Sign of the Four.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Terry Malloy, who played Davros in Doctor Who, is Doctor Watson, and I’m Sherlock Holmes.\n<\/p>\n

\n “It’s like a radio play on stage. Last night we were in Bishop’s Stortford, before that was Newark- we are getting all over the place.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We shall be at Henley at the dear old Kenton (theatre) next week. I’m less than ten miles away from the town, so that’s alright; it’s my local shopping area!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 82-year-old portrayed the Sixth Doctor, preceded by Peter Davidson and succeeded by\u00a0Sylvester McCoy, staying in the role…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-168834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}