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Doctor Who star Matt Smith has insisted the show is not sex-obsessed – but admitted it keeps hiring “hot” female actresses.

The 31-year-old will be starring alongside Jenna Coleman and Billie Piper in the film The Day of The Doctor to mark the show’s 50th anniversary.

Waris Hussein, who directed the first ever Dr Who episode, has recently said the show has become too sexualised.

But Matt hit back, telling the Mirror: “I strongly disagree. Dr Who is just rollocking good fun with the odd snog here and there.

“For sure, Karen (Gillan) is hot, so too Billie and Jenna but is that a bad thing? I don’t think so.

“What’s he want us to do, put everyone in straitjackets?

"Look at the history of the show, there were women in Tarzanian outfits, were there not, back in the early days?”

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The new film, which will also be shown in 3D, has David Tennant returning as another version of the Doctor, as well as John Hurt also playing a third incarnation of the Time Lord.

Billie, 31, stars again as Rose Tyler and Jenna is Matt’s sidekick Clara Oswald, but Karen - who was at the LA Baftas at the weekend with her hair growing back - is not involved.

Matt said it was “brilliant” to work with David and explained: “There aren’t many of us who have played the doctor and it is a unique experience which I’ve been reluctant to share with other people because it sounds as if I am bragging when I talk about all the amazing things it entails.

"I can talk to David about it, about all the line-learning, the way in which you get thrust into the limelight. We’ve had lots of chats together.”

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Doctors Matt and David will work together in a storyline in 2012 when something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery and in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England.

Elsewhere, somewhere in space an “ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion.”

Matt will leave the show in the Christmas episode, when the Time Lord regenerates into a new Doctor played by Peter Capaldi.

He said because of the role. he was spotted all around the world on holiday and people even approached him in toilets to try to talk to him, which was a little uncomfortable.

“This guy followed me and asked me if I would speak to his wife on the phone - as I was making use of the facilities.

“I said: ‘this isn’t the best time, dude.’ But when I’d finished doing what I was doing, I did speak to his wife!”

Asked if he had any advice for Capaldi, Matt said: “Enjoy it, man. And be prepared to learn an awful lot of lines.

“The best thing about the show is pretty much everything! The storylines, the guest stars, just the honour of playing the doctor.

"The worst is all those lines! Sorry to hark on about it but it really is extraordinary how much you have to learn.”

* The Day Of The Doctor will be show on BBC One on 23 November and in selected cinemas nationwide