In a dark, secluded corner of a Cardiff television studio, Catherine Tate and David Tennant are in tears. “I haven’t even talked to you about my portable milk frother,” Catherine is saying, crying with laughter.
“No, you haven’t,” says David. “For all the coffee you don’t drink?”
“Ha! For all the coffee I don’t drink.”
Catherine is cachinnating her way through a list of the gadgets (“Some high-tech, some low-tech”) that she buys online (“And then doesn’t use,” splutters David). It’s causing a bit of a commotion here in the shadows, on Stage 4, at Bad Wolf Studios. “I’m absolutely a compulsive shopper,” she explains. “I absolutely get… is it the dopamine hit? Like a gambler gets. I mean, 100% I’ve got a problem.”
“Do you have clear-outs, though?” asks David.
An intake of breath. “I do, I do.”
“Or do you just buy another house and live in that?”
“No, well, ha! No, I recently…” She can barely get the words out. “I recently got rid of my Malibu pilates table.”
“How troubled had it been by actual pilates?” enquires David.
“It was still in its box,” she confesses, propelling them both into another fit of the giggles. Two kindred spirits, rocking back and forth on their canvas chairs, corpsing helplessly. It’s not even 10AM.
If you’re wondering why Catherine and David are in such a giddy mood, it’s because it’s Monday, 9 May 2022, and this is their first day back together on the set of Doctor Who in 13 years. So this… let’s call it an interview – yeah, no, let’s – might be a little chaotic.
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