“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
i am definitely never going to buy the sun anymore
naughty sun! 4 days till martha jones figure
Every person knows that the Sun is a massive lie, its a load of rubbish, only to attract peoples attention by making up false stories
on weak targets such as Freema- The sun & any other newspapers have got nothing better to do than start stupid rumours to manipulate the general public. Thank god that Freema is staying for good, instead of what the sun said: “Exterminated”
The Sun should be ashamed of itself for this outrage against Freema. She has been a fantastic replacement for Billie. Billie was a hard act to follow & Freema replaced her by filling those shoes with great ease. Freema’s a role model to a whole new generation of Doctor Who fans inspirational, intelligent, good looking & very, very talented. Something that most Sun journalists are not!
Most Journalists for certain news papers are pathetic. It takes alot to turn me off a certain people. Freema Agyeman is brilliant actress and The Sun is a load of horse poop
Great news that Freema is staying and Yar-Bolluckles to the sun. The other thing that caught my eye about this article was The Quest idea, the reason; didnt Reggie, the guy who plays Freema/Marthas brother, say something about the Doctor going on a ten week quest during Radio ones Jo Whiley meets Doctor who Xmas day broadcast, perhaps this is were this idea comes from. Martha forever.
I think Freema is brilliant as Martha and was shocked when I read on ITvs teletext that she was too be axed. So glad its false! The Sun seems to delete in causing trouble! Well what goes around come around!
So relieved by the BBCs statement! The Sun is trash!
Dont worry Freema a.k.a. Martha Jones will be staying it was just a rumour becase “THE SUN” was loosing customers because they know dr who had 1.9 million viewers every saturday so they thought “oh lets just put this down about freema leavin” cause they know that would attract customers to buy the sun just ignore it. Im ashamed of “THE SUN” theirs already been 1 million conplaints to the sun about this. Dont worry over dr who fans cause martha jones is staying onboard the TARDIS. Just forget what the sun but down, Did you know that the sun most of the time lies thats why nobody buys it!
PLUS: That news is all wrong cause why are they makin loads of dr who Martha Jones figures and dvds so think about that.
THIS CASE CAN BE CLOSED CAUSE IVE TOLD YOU THE TRUTH
I HATE THE SUN
I never read newspapers anyway - especially the gutter press of The Sun and its ilk. This just gives me another reason to loath and despise them (as if I needed one).
Freema is doing a wonderful job in the show. She has fast become much loved by Doctor Who fans (inc. me) and critics alike. It is so typical of the British pres to build someone up and then try to tear them down.
May she stay with Doctor Who for as long as she wants.
Freema….you rock!
we need to get are own back on the sun im to young to comment but 4 some1 thats 18 or over plz put this website on the comment board ! and evrey1 will c and neva trust dem again
lol and saty how STUPID! they r lol who agres?
lol and say if u r so we know plz!!!plz!!!plz!!! thanx if u r ,and i hope they do an opologising article