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It seems the Doctor’s change of gender after 55 years will barely get a mention.

New boss Chris Chibnall says the opening episode of the new series will be about how The Doc (played by Jodie Whittaker) manages to survive following her regeneration.

Last Christmas viewers saw her fall out of the Tardis mid-flight and drop through space towards Earth.

No big fuss will be made about the fact the leading star is now female.

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Chibnall said: “The gender issue is pretty by-passed.

“It’s not really a kind of a gender-related story or anything like that.

“The first story is much more a story of survival for the new Doc.

“The last we saw of her she was falling through the air above planet Earth so it’s less about gender and more about: ‘How am I going to get out of this?’”

However, a source said: “It is odd that one minute Peter Capaldi is The Doc and he turns into Jodie Whittaker and the sex change is barely mentioned.”

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Female fans were glued to their TVs last night when Richard Madden flashed his bum for the cameras in the hit BBC One drama.

Minutes before minder David Budd (Madden) was seen back in bed and enjoying yet another secret romp with the woman he is protecting – Home Secretary Julie Montague (played by Keeley Hawes).

It’s left viewers wondering whether the minister does any work?

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Loose Women is getting a lunchtime rival today.

The BBC is launching a show for brainiacs at 12.15pm and wants to attract younger viewers.

It will clash in the schedules with ITV’s Loose Women at 12.30pm featuring Stacey Solomon and Coleen Nolan, who had an on-air row with Kim Woodburn last week.

Jo Coburn will front the weekday series and guests this week include former Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

She said: “We have drawn inspiration from American television and podcasting to come up with a bright and glossy, yet approachable, new format.”

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Can you spot the difference?

One is the late John Paul Getty III who was kidnapped and held to ransom for £2million in 1973 until his wealthy oil tycoon grandfather J Paul Getty paid up.

The other is little known actor Harris Dickinson, who is portraying JPG III in this forthcoming new BBC Two drama.

They look spookily similar.

And executive producer Danny Boyle says: “If you look at pictures of John Paul Getty III from the time, he’s actually 16 years old – he looked like a young rock star of 20 like a Jim Morrison or a Robert Plant.

“We had to find someone who had the physical attributes.”

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DOCTOR Who and Looking star Russell Tovey wants a “bun in the oven” – but he admits he hasn’t met a boyfriend yet who wants kids with him.

Russell – a guest on tonight’s Great British Bake Off spin-off on C4 at 11.35pm – tells Gay Times: “Now I’m 36, I’m giving myself three years and if I haven’t met someone who wants kids then I'll do it by myself.”