DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM NOW?
Jodie hopes TV role will get her Glasto pass
Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is hoping her role as the Time Lord will mean a free VIP pass to Glastonbury.
Jodie, 36, claims that when she previously tried to blag a freebie, festival bosses told her she wasn’t famous enough. The actress said: “I asked a couple of years ago and I think it was like, ‘Absolutely not. You’re not counted as a VIP’.
“So I think if being the Doctor can get me anything, I’m like, ‘ Please let me’.”
Asked if she is optimistic about getting a ticket now she is the biggest British TV female actor, Jodie added: “You never know.
“I’d go every year but this is the problem with a filming schedule – it doesn’t acknowledge your social life. It’s so rude.”
Jodie has gone to the famous festival twice before.
She said: “I did it just before my 16th birthday. My mum and dad were very liberal. Me and my three lad mates from school – we’d just done our final GCSE – got in a coach from Huddersfield and it took about 20 hours.
“It was my birthday and it topped records of rain, which was great. We were camping on a hill and it was just like a river underneath. But you’re 15 – you don’t care where it is.
“I once spent eight hours staring at the festival wall to get a free ticket.”
Jodie previously said that if she had a Tardis for real, she would go to all her favourite gigs, stopping first to watch Arcade Fire at Glastonbury in 2014.
She will star in a Doctor Who festive special at 7pm on BBC1 on New Year’s Day.