Georgia Tennant admits assumption she made before meeting future husband David

Georgia Tennant has admitted that she held assumptions about her now-husband, Scottish actor David Tennant, when they first met.

The couple were famously introduced when Georgia was cast as the genetically engineered daughter of David Tennant’s character, the Doctor, in the fourth series of Doctor Who.

Georgia, whose father Peter Davidson played the fifth incarnation of the Doctor between 1981 to 1984, married David in 2011. He adopted her son from a previous relationship, Ty, and they share four more children together: Olive, 14, Wilfred, 12, Doris, nine, and Birdie, five.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Georgia recalled meeting David for the first time in a cafe when he was dressed as the Doctor.

“He bounded in,” she said. “Initially, I thought, oh, he’s going to be a wanker, because that’s my slight default position with the number one on the call sheets.”

Evidently, this turned out not to be the case: she and David have been married for 14 years. Last December, David got the letter “G” tattooed on his wrist as a surprise tribute for her 40th birthday.

In the same interview, Georgia joked that she dined out on the sentence, “He played my dad,” because it made her husband feel “old and it makes me feel young”.

She also spoke about her and David’s vocal championing of transgender rights, explaining: “I want all my children to grow up in a world where they can be who they are, and evolve from who they are now to who they may end up being, without judgement or fear or attack.

“I have to fight for the future world that they go into and, as the adult in the situation, you have a responsibility to do that.”

Georgia is currently starring in the second season of The Horne Section TV Show – a meta-comedy with Alex Horne, Greg Davies and guest stars including Tim Key and Martin Kemp – on Channel 4.

David appeared at MCM Comic Con in London this weekend, where he opened up about how a superhero role he’d been coveting went to fellow actor Pedro Pascal.

He is known for his performances in hit sci-fi series including Doctor Who and the Netflix show Jessica Jones, as well as his more recent role as the villain Tony Baddingham in Disney+’s hit show Rivals.

It has now emerged that he was keen to play the character of Reed Richards, aka Mister Fantastic, the leader of Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four.

“In terms of superheroes, I don’t know, I did slightly have my eye on Reed Richards, and unfortunately, it looks like they’ve gone in a different direction,” Tennant said during an appearance at MCM Comic Con in London this weekend.

“Although if it has to be someone, I’m happy for it to be Pedro Pascal, frankly.”