Sunday People

Don’t you know... Dr Who I am? Time Lord Jodie’s bid for Glasto freebie

- By Halina Watts SHOWBIZ EDITOR

DOCTOR Who star Jodie Whittaker thinks it is high Time Lord she had a free VIP pass to Glastonbur­y.

Jodie, 36, claims she has previously been snubbed by music festival bosses when she tried to score a freebie.

Now her new high- profile sci-fi stardom should make that a thing of the past.

The actress, who is the BBC’S first female Doctor Who, 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 now that she is the biggest British TV female actor, she said: “You never know I’d go every year but this is the problem blem with a filming schedule. ule.

“It doesn’t esn’t acknowledg­e your social life. It’s ’ s so rude.”

Jodie, who features in a Doctor octor

Who special episode pisode on New Year’s Day, has had two previous vious

Glasto jaunts. .

She recalled: “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 and got on a coach from Huddersfie­ld. It took about 20 hours.

“It “It was my birthday and it topped records reco of rain, which was great. We were camping on a hill a and it was just like a river u underneath.

“But you’re 15. You don’t ca care.”

She a added: “I once spent eigh eight hours staring at the festival festiva wall trying to get

a free ticket.”

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