Yesterday John Barrowman set Doctor Who fans’ pulses racing when he told ITV’s This Morning that he had been in contact with the BBC concerning the 50th anniversary special.
Today, however, things are slightly different.
First of all was the backtracking, which came later on Friday:
Re 50th I didn’t say in what capacity or what medium so stay calm and carry on . Jb
— John Barrowman News (@Team_Barrowman) March 1, 2013
Today, John Barrowman went further.
Speaking on Graham Norton’s BBC Radio Two show (concerning the latest co-written book with his sister Carole E. Barrowan, Bone Quill
In fairness to John, he didn’t really give anything away, did he?
Eventually, Carole told Norton that “The BBC are mad at him.” John Barrowman himself is apparently unaware as to why what he said has caused any problem.
It’s an interesting scenario, one that might explain why Louise Jameson said so very little about it…
Barrowman is renowned for having a big mouth and is a big gossip so if he wasn’t supposed to say anything, the BBC should have said “John, say absolutely nothing. If you blab, we can always not include you!” I would think that might shut him up. If they did tell him to not say anything—and he did—then yeah, they should be mad.
I could easily see Barrowman being a huge spoiler-machine. The media’s obviously not going to stop asking the questions though. The actors should just play dumb.
John is being a bit dim about that. They WERE his words. He said them on TV. It’s not like a newspaper article with a quote spliced in.
It is all quite amusing though. All these rumours being `leaked’ and guess work by the rest of us.
Fantastic publicity for the show in the end.
If Cap’n Jack is indeed in the special (s) they could include a scene of him getting shafted by a Dalek-just as a little in joke and to teach him a lesson.