“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
Thank Goodness for that. I read the Sun comment & felt totally let down by the BBC. Freema is the best companion they’ve had in a long time and her acting in the show is fantastic. I only wish the BBC Site would publish the headline “Sun Reporter to be axxed for lousy storywriting”.
Freema, you rock!!!
I knew it! I just knew all that bile that the Sun printed was utter tripe. Onward Freema! We have your back!
The whole point of tabloids is to create nonsense.
Most times you read about things happening in showbiz you take with a HUGE pinch of salt. Just like when the Sun etc reports fake hookups and showbiz “romances” that are not happening, the same often happens with casting/career gossip.
Journalism in this country has hit an all-time low whereby people do not bother to check facts or even hold back on printing just in case a thing may not be true. Remember that every time you read an article that says ‘A SOURCE SAID…’ think about just WHO that source would be and WHY they would even speak to the papers. Where they print ‘A PAL SAID…’ or ‘A FRIEND SAID…’ it is either at best a PR rep plant or most likely a made up pack of ****.
My advice is to never blindly follow anything said in the papers or magazines. Most of them are psychological tricks to try and dupe people. Most people believe that stuff because they never think to question it but you should always question things.
I hate The Sun even more now. Martha is clearly the best companion the Doctor’s had in ages - Freema Agyeman has absolutely and totally won me over. I just wish the Doctor would be a bit nicer to her…
I’d like to throw the Sun Newspaper into the Sun now. Grr.
Human Nature was pretty good. Although the cliffhanger could have been better.
Is there anyone left in the world who takes The Sun seriously? They may call their random splotches of ink a newspaper, but I don’t think it fools anyone really, does it?
I’ve boycotted the Sun since 1989 after what they called us after Hillsborough in our city they r still not forgiven
knew it was a load of rubbish!
I sat and watched Human Nature , Part 1 , last night and enoyed it immenseley . Terrific script , photography , acting, everything. I thought , wow , this is shows Freema at her best and how right it was to cast her in the show.
And then I saw the news article about her being taken off. I couldn’t believe it .
Freema , if you read this , we still love you x x x x
This is a load of **** - I hate The Sun now - I used to buy it all the time, now Im not going to bother.