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MY CULTURAL MOMENT OF THE YEAR

NCUTI GATWA

Star of Sex Education and Barbie, now the 15th Doctor

Oh, my cultural highlight of 2023 was the pink Tardis at the Barbie premiere! My roles in Doctor Who and Barbie are quite linked in my head. I got cast in both of them very close together and was filming Barbie when I was announced as the Doctor. So for the Barbie premiere there was a pink Tardis floating around. It was amazing. So that’s my cultural moment of the year – because it combines both of my projects, hahaha, it was double Ncuti!

MATHEW BAYNTON

Star of Ghosts and Wonka

was criminally overlooked at the theatre awards. Daniel Rigby gave the funniest performance I’ve ever watched in a play. The adaptation by Tom Basden was incredible. There was a richness to every single line and it was so funny, but also really, righteously angry,

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