Burger Eater

Its well known that we have very little idea about what goes on in the filming for Tredegar House. But now we've been given a little tip off thanks to Mikew:

Stay through the boring bit , it is worth it.

My father is involved in the special constabulary here in South Wales. That's the voluntary Police force here in the UK for those that don't know. He regularly attends meetings and during one recently, one of the volunteer coppers chatted to him about myself being a DW fan. This lady works for one of the catering agencies used by the production team. She informed Dad that she had been at Tredegar House recently , at the same time as those wonderful set reporters on this site had snapped away. Part of her role that day was to cook and check the temperature of a lot of hamburgers which John Simm had to eat as part of his scenes. She met JS and said he was a top guy.

All the above is true as far as it's been told to me second hand. My Father , although approaching 70 and likely senility , knows not to fib to me in asny aspect of the Whoniverse!

Fantastic picture courtesy of Kate Orman.

So now we know that the Master eats at least one burger.

Excitement!

An IT technician from Lincolnshire has fulfilled a childhood dream to star as an alien in a scene from Doctor Who.

Tim Ingham (28), from Langworth, fought off competition from thousands of other entrants to the BBC contest and will star in the scene tomorrow night.

The competition was run by BBC One's Tonight's The Night and entrants had to send in pictures of themselves in home-made alien outfits.

Mr Ingham, who works at the University of Lincoln and is a member of Lincoln Academy of Dramatic Arts, constructed a costume from tights, the gel pads from his fiancee's bra and a wine cooler.

"I discovered the competition on the Internet by chance and realised there was only a couple of days until the closing date," he said.

"I hadn't got any ideas so I slept on it and then started to get some inspiration.

"The wine cooler looked like a good weapon and I put some tights on my head and looked like a garish bank robber."

Mr Ingham's alien creation, Sao Til, is a sinister body snatcher that harvests human body parts.

The thousands of applications received by BBC researchers were whittled down to just 50 and then 10 were carried through to the final elimination round.

Mr Ingham was then faced with a panel made up of Denise Van Outen, John Barrowman and Doctor Who casting Director Andy Pryor.

After being announced as the winner he was whisked away to the set of the TARDIS at the BBC's studios in Cardiff to film the scene.

The show will air tomorrow night on BBC One at 7.20pm.

For more on Mr Ingham's alien creation for Doctor Who, see Friday's Echo.