“It is absolute rubbish that Freema Agyeman has been axed or sacked from Doctor Who. However we do not comment on future storylines.”
On a day where Freema should be celebrated in the press for her lovely first appearance on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, it instead has been horribly ruined by the cruelty of a tabloid desperate for attention by any means. While we are not an official voice for Freema, we would like to at least express our outrage against The Sun’s nonsense.
Having failed to cash in on their attempts to damage her established co-star, David Tennant, by trying to ignite and ride on rumours of his impending departure from Doctor Who, “The Sun” has turned their eye to a far easier target, an actress who has just barely gotten her momentum going in mainstream media and therefore can less easily defend herself.
Freema had been their darling until recently and they could not print enough nice things to say about her. But she seems to have outlived her usefulness to them since every other paper was also praising her and their voice was being drowned out. So “The Sun” has changed their tactics, now forming their words into a knife and trying to plunge it into her career for no apparent reason but for their own depraved gossip and readership numbers.
Rest assured, there is an ever growing list of logical reasons why what they say is hopelessly incorrect and full of falsehoods, including a recent statement* by Russell T. Davies that he hasn’t even written the Christmas Special yet, let alone any of series four. But The Sun made one glaring mistake in their attempt to trash Freema: there is no-one in the BBC that high in authority who would ever talk to them on that kind of topic. It just wouldn’t happen. Such a person would lose their lucrative job in a heartbeat, it wouldn’t be worth risking discovery.
To attempt to poison Freema’s fanbase by eroding the will to commit to her character emotionally is nothing short of a crime in our book. It’s bad behaviour expected from a bully, not from any entity claiming to be “press”.
So in conclusion, all we can do is ask you to boycott The Sun. There is simply no reason to read it anyway and if this is going to be their new trend why do you need such negativity in your day? Entire towns have successfully boycotted The Sun, we dare say a fandom can do so as well. We are compiling a list of their associated products and companies to boycott, as well as previous claims by them that were complete fabrications so that you may more readily defend yourself against their rubbish and will publish it as soon as reasonably possible. Ask your friends and family to join this action.
We thank you for your loyalty to Freema.
Update: The BBC have now given us a short statement Saturday morning strongly denying The Sun’s claim, which has been placed at the top of this page. In addition at the end of the day we received further confirmation from other solid sources (which unfortunately we cannot name) who assure us that The Sun’s article is untrue.
* Russell T. Davies told Ariel in an interview at the end of April:
“Don’t be stupid, I haven’t even written the script yet ”
The Daily Star reports on 2 June: Freema’s agent confirms she is in series 4
Bob your the blind one Freema is fab and to be honest i think she’d be laughing at the sun rather than crying. She wouldn’t let a stupid tabloid paper get to her. She has the best job in the world and she knows wats goin on not the sun.
I was like =O “whaaaat?” when i read that, especially given that only last night she was talking about when they start filming again on Jonathan Ross!
I sure hope she isn’t leaving, I love ten/martha!
So where did you get this official BBC reply from then? There’s nothing on their site or press site about it. Just curious.
I’m in America, so I don’t get The Sun, but I avoid any and all tabloids anyway, so you have my support.
Never read The Sun. Waste of money.
Freema does her acting very well.
How annoyed was i to see freema dropped from doctor who without her first series in the bag yet!!! I was annoyed that we cannot let a charater develop before it has even got going!!!! I am so glad its untrue and as true to form the Sun gets a news article made up of complete rubbish!! If this is what they do over a tv show iamgine what they do over current affairs!!! Scary!!!!!
We love Freema!!! So far, this has been the best Dr Who series ever, due to Freema’s role (+ fantastic scripts)
How dare they make such a derogatory article about hte lovely Freema. Why would they axe someone that popular. It doesn’t make sense- then again the Sun are a bit Thick! Shame on them i hope their sales plummet and they stop printing. Life is just, those who are mean get the just desserts. Don’t worry Freema we’re behind you.
I am glad to here that she isnt leaving. The sun just make up all this stuff to get viewers. I wonder why they always pick DOCTOR WHO to lie about? I think that the BBC should take The Sun editors to court for the way they’ve behaved towards doctor who. I didn’t like the way they picked on David Tennant about quitting Doctor Who in the middle of series four and I dont like the way they’re picking on Freema now. I think the sun should shove their newspaper and their lies up their backside! (sorry about the languange, I just had to get it out of my system!)
a load of rubbish!