The BBC Dr who site have uploaded some information on Abigail Pettigrew.
When Abigail's family borrow money she is taken as security and frozen for years, kept locked away until the Doctor and Kazran meet her and whisk her away for a series of magical Christmas Eves. But throughout that time, Abigail has a secret and a gift...
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“Afterwards, I drove 200 miles away to a hotel in Somerset to meet with some family and friends and guess who was the first person I saw as I walked into the lobby? Only Matt Smith himself!
“I wanted to go over to him and yell, ‘I might be acting alongside you’, but had signed a confidentiality agreement not to breathe a word. I couldn’t even tell my mum where I’d been.
“What was he doing there though? I mean seriously, just how random is that?” she laughed.
Serendipity some might call it, especially since Jenkins got the call telling her she’d won the prestigious festive role alongside Smith’s 11th Doctor practically as she was blowing out the candles on her birthday cake.
But as the mega-selling classical singer was quick to admit, she almost didn’t go for the part at all.
“Well, I’ve never done acting of any kind, so I really wasn’t sure if I was up to it,” she cringed.
“And it’s the Doctor Who Christmas Special too, that’s one step down from the Queen’s Speech in the iconic stakes. The last thing I wanted was to be the one to ruin it.
“But then I thought, ‘Well, why not try? The worst they can tell me is ‘no’.”
She clearly impressed them though, though Jenkins confessed to initially thinking she was only hired because her character, Abigail Pettigrew, is called upon in the script to sing.
Surely though, I tell her, if they’d had any concerns they’d have simply got a trained actress in and asked her to lip-synch instead.
“I suppose so,” she smiled, suddenly perking up. “And I’m in it quite a bit – it’s not a cameo – so they must trust me.”
She was certainly made very welcome by some more than others.
Yes, Michael Gambon, esteemed Knight of the British stage and screen, we’re looking at you.
“Michael was so lovely. Me and Matt would sit around for hours in his trailer in between takes listening to stories about his time in Hollywood,” said Katherine, whose part took nearly a month to film on location in places like Cardiff Bay, Pontypridd and Newport.
“He was a hell of a practical joker too, mind.
“His character, Kazran Sardick, is supposed to be a bit Scrooge-like and has this long cane with a metal tip that he carries everywhere.
“In one place we were filming the crew had to wear hard hats and, Michael being Michael, he’d wander up behind them, whack them on the head with the end of his stick and then quickly turn away like nothing had happened.
“He let me take the blame for that on a number of occasions. He really is a wicked man,” she laughed, adding that she’s now caught the acting bug and would happily do more “provided it involved music in some way”.
And Jenkins added that Smith could easily have similar success if he ever tried his luck at her day job.
“I had a really good laugh with Matt between takes.
“He kept mucking around and singing to me and I couldn’t believe what a great bass voice he has. People really should hear him!”
Acting aside, Jenkins has never been a stranger to taking risks; the stage show for her latest Believe tour featuring nightly feats of daring which see her flying around arenas on a high wire with no safety net below.
“You can blame Tim Gavin for that; he choreographed Take That’s last tour and he wanted to make mine less an ordinary classical concert and more of a spectacle,” she said.
“He was like, ‘Why don’t we have an aerialist zooming around in the air while you’re singing?’ and I told him I loved that idea.
“Then he said, ‘He’s going to come down and grab you and you’ll go up into the air with him’, and I went, ‘You what? I can’t do that!’
“We needed to do it though because it was a perfect visual complement to all the rockier songs in the set, stuff by Evanescence and Queen.
“It would have looked a bit odd me twirling around in the rafters singing Pie Jesu or something.”
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Katherine Jenkins has described a kissing scene involving her character in the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special as the most terrifying moment of her career."He kept doing it on purpose going, 'Oh sorry, I messed it up. You'll have to do it again,'" Bang Showbiz quotes her as saying.
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We've only three weeks to go until A Christmas Carol!They feature Matt Smith as the Doctor, Michael Gambon as Kazran and Katherine Jenkins as Abigail.
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The thrilling adventures of the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) and newlyweds Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) will continue in a Doctor Who fun-filled and heartfelt festive story, A Christmas Carol, this Christmas on BBC One.Ben Stephenson, Controller, BBC Drama Commissioning said: "Matt Smith and Karen Gillan captivated audiences in their debut series, and Doctor Who's clever twist on the much loved A Christmas Carol will thrill BBC One viewers this year with special guest stars Sir Michael Gambon and singing sensation Katherine Jenkins joining Amy and the Doctor for an unforgettable present!"
Amy and Rory are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way The Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser, in a festive edition of the time-travelling adventure, written by Steven Moffat. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?Amy Pond is played by Karen Gillan, Rory Williams by Arthur Darvill, The Doctor by Matt Smith and Kazran Sardick by Michael Gambon.
BBC America has announced on its Twitter feed that this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, A Christmas Carol, is to be broadcast in the US on Christmas Day. This marks the first time that a Doctor Who Christmas special has aired in the United States on the same day as its UK premiere.The episode will be broadcast at 9:00pm Eastern Time; the time of broadcast in the United Kingdom has yet to be announced.
Katherine Jenkins who stars in this years doctor who christmas special 'A Christmas Carol' It will be the first time in the BBC sci-fi show's 47-year history that a musical performance will be integrated into a storyline.
Executive producer and lead writer Steven Moffat is hugely excited about the December special, saying: "It is incredibly Christmassy. That's true of the previous ones but I wanted to go for broke. It's easily the most Christmassy thing you'll ever see. It's a huge, sentimental, lovely, jeopardy-driven story. It's the Christmas special I'd like to see. It's like a compilation of every Christmas movie - a big Christmas treat. But that doesn't mean it's without scares, and that doesn't mean it's without heartbreak. It has genuine tragedy in it."
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