{"id":2219499,"date":"2026-01-02T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2219499"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:08:12","slug":"doctor-who-casting-rumor-gets-definitive-response-from-erin-doherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/doctor-who-casting-rumor-gets-definitive-response-from-erin-doherty\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Casting Rumor Gets Definitive Response From Erin Doherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Rumors have been swirling online about who the next titular character of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3010558\/\">Doctor Who<\/a> could be, with many names being thrown into the ring. However, one star finally offers a definitive answer on whether she&#8217;ll be the Sixteenth Doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation around Doctor Who casting is practically a tradition in between seasons, and the latest round of rumors predicted that Adolescence star, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8732963\/\">Erin Doherty<\/a>, could be the next in line to play the iconic Doctor. While she was a popular candidate when it came to fan casting, in reality, the actor unfortunately had to disappoint her fans by revealing that she is not going to be the next Doctor.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0105925\/\">RadioTimes<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors have been swirling online about who the next titular character of Doctor Who could be, with many names being thrown into the ring. However, one star finally offers a definitive answer on whether she&#8217;ll be the Sixteenth Doctor. Speculation around Doctor Who casting is practically a tradition in between seasons, and the latest round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2219500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2219499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Doctor-Who-Casting-Rumor-Gets-Definitive-Response-From-Erin-Doherty.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219501,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219499\/revisions\/2219501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}