David Tennant in the Guardian - the irony!

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Can't believe he's so unaware that he thinks the trans side of the debate is the one that's been silenced! (about two thirds of the way down the article).

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/10/david-tennant-tv-baftas-interview

I think it's fairly clear from the context, his creepy "protect the dolls" t-shirt and his previous comments that he isn't concerned about gender critical women being silenced.

@Melonmango70 Blackpool is surreal (although the song and dance routines in doctor who are going a bit the same way these days)!

@rebmacesrevda he does have form from his early career - remember Davina?

Nice people put their view across without telling people to disappear and setting the attack dogs of the trans community on to them. He's not nice.

David, is that you?

Just dropping this here

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/celebrity-news/david-tennant-one-three-most-35204038?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Totally this, and they frequently crop up on Question time looking all serious and self righteous.

Idiots

That's hilarious. Has DT ever turned up on those MN threads about wanker celebrities, though?

People are ‘Terrorised’ into silence - also tells a woman to ‘shut up’ for her views - yeah so self aware!

dripping in male privilege

But @mrstrickland the Scottish paper has people who've known him saying how unpleasant he is. Do you know him personally then, as you say he's a 'thoroughly nice human being'? Because others certainly don't agree with you.

But, delight of delights, he played a transgender barmaid 30 years ago! But I expect he's forgiven himself by now.

Yup, it’s definitely in the ‘decapitate reefs’ arena. How dare he bemoan that the debate is ‘unnecessarily cruel’.

I met him about 12 years ago at a convention - my daughters birthday treat - he asked her name before we came in and then got down on one knee, threw his arms open and shouted her name - he was actually lovely - but he’s since become an uber twat - it’s sad

terfs. Phone is terf phobic 😄

People these days are always claiming they're being silenced. From TRAs to Nigel Farage and GB News.🙄

David, mate, if you're wanging on about it in the papers, on TV and across SM, you're not being silenced or silent.

Yes, I recall someone saying he told their teenager to fuck ff when she tried to say hello to him in a supermarket! Although there were definitely other people saying they'd met him and he was lovely.

Mind you I met Billy Brag a few times in the 80’s and he was nice - fuck all these men hiding their misogyny behind otherwise sound politics - mind you even then most of them didn’t hide it well if at all.

Trying to decide who I dislike more him or Redmayne.

Bloody twat.

From a reformed DT fan

Noooooo! Tom Baker was the best Doctor Who! Tennant is second.

This comment (below) as well. Utterly out of touch. The 1980s were better than the present in many, many ways. Not perfect, obviously but young people leaving school could get stable, permanent jobs. There were way fewer living in poverty and children’s mental health had not plummeted through the floor. Jilly’s worldview was always fascinating because it was so far removed from my personal experience anyway. Hardly normal life for most.
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“When Jilly wrote it, it was the world as she experienced it. Now, we can enjoy the awfulness of the way things were, because we can be slightly smug in the fact that it’s not quite as awful as it was then.”

My opinion of him went down when he married a woman young enough to be his daughter and has been going down further ever since.

Have you met him? Those who have often disagree with you

There’s a 13 year difference between the two. Hardly old enough to be her dad 😂

I didn’t know he’d clashed with Badenoch (as in - in person? Obviously they have erm different views on women’s rights!) I’d pay real money to see that though, she’d wipe the floor with him!

I thought he was really good on that. It was a good episode for me but we all like different things.

I have a daughter who thinks she isn't a girl. Guess what, she's wrong. I am doing everything I can to safeguard my (gay,autistic) daughter.

Celebrities seem to view a child who says they are trans as an accessory. So many of them.

Not in person, no. He was just speechifying about how she should shut up and not exist.

Unemployment was really high in the early 80s. I know because I was looking for work as with mortgage rates at 14% and high inflation I needed more money. i can't remember the whole decade in detail but the first few years were a bloody nightmare.

There was also the miners strike and race riots.