From The Sun:
THE next Doctor Who will be a WOMAN, according to an insider.
BBC chiefs may even pick an ethnic doctor to take over from David Tennant in the New Year.
Comic Catherine Tate and Goodness Gracious Me's Meera Syal are in the frame to be the first Time Lady in the show's history. A show source said: "The BBC really wants to shake things up. There is no reason story-line wise why the Doctor cannot be a woman and from any ethnic background. The Doctor has morphed before and will do so again."
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Well I don't see it being Catherine Tate, just as I don't see it being Billie Piper; if this is true.