After swapping the Coronation Road cobbles for Physician Who’s Tardis, Millie Gibson’s profession is about to go stratospheric. Forward of her first outing within the Physician Who Christmas particular, she chats to Josh Smith for his GLAMOUR column, Josh Smith Meets, about bringing the Time Lord and his companion into our occasions.

How do you image getting the decision that you’ve got landed your dream job? Effectively, when Millie Gibson came upon she landed the function of Ruby Sunday, the brand new companion to the fifteenth Physician Who, performed by Intercourse Training star Ncuti Gatwa – she was in a sticky scenario to say the least.

“I had simply bought a sprig tan,” Millie laughs, telling me from her residence by way of Zoom: “So I used to be simply within the ready room, ready for it to dry, standing there after which my telephone simply saved buzzing. And I used to be like, ‘What’s going on with that telephone?’ It was a bunch name, and whenever you get a bunch name from all three of your brokers, it’s like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve both been cancelled or I’ve bought a very good half.’ So I picked it up. They usually had been like, ‘Can you retain a secret? You bought the half!’ However it was so high secret, I could not inform anybody. I used to be too scared to inform my mum, however clearly I did!”

And identical to that, with the unmistakable scent of biscuit/faux tan wafting round her, Millie’s life modified. Did she handle to maintain it a secret for lengthy? “I bought backed right into a nook a bit bit with concern. They had been actually identical to, ‘Should you inform anybody, it may jeopardise this half.’ No secret is value that,” she shares. “Once I bought introduced on Kids In Want, I had so a lot of my family and friends messaging me, being like, ‘What the hell? Why did not you inform us that you just bought this half?’ It is so humorous as a result of I am too scared to even take footage on set generally, since you simply do not know what is going on to occur if I by accident put it on my [Instagram] Story or one thing once I’m drunk.” Millie actually will get extra iconic by the second whenever you communicate to her, so it’s simple to see why she landed the function.

Earlier than she finds a complete new fandom when she makes her Physician Who debut within the Christmas Day particular, the 19 year-old is at the moment best-known for her four-year stint enjoying Kelly on the nation’s longest operating cleaning soap, Coronation Road. However the place was Millie at in life when Physician Who got here calling? “It was on my very, final day on Coronation Road. My agent rang me up and he was like, ‘Hello, how are you feeling?’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, I am a bit bit put out in the present day. It is my final day. I’ll miss everybody… and questioning if I made the suitable choice or not.’ After which he was like, ‘Effectively, this can cheer up!’”