Doctor 'marries' in next 'Who' series

The Doctor "gets married" in the next series of sci-fi hit Doctor Who, actor David Tennant has said, tentatively.

According to the Daily Mail he is thought to be seen marrying a character played by comedy actress Jessica Stevenson in an apparent flashback scene.

"Yes. He gets married," admitted Tennant. "Well, he doesn't not. Actually, it's quite difficult to answer that question truthfully."

Clips of the upcoming episodes also apparently show Tennant kissing his new assistant Martha Jones (played by Freema Agyeman) on the lips. However, he adds: "It means nothing, it was just a genetic transfer."

Meanwhile, Agyeman admitted it was hard not to be influenced by Billie Piper's portrayal of the assistant.

"Hands on heart, I didn't have Billie's character in mind when I took this on but looking at it now I can see there are similarities," she explained. "But the Doctor is always going to look for the same sort of thing in an assistant. There's got to be a feistiness, you're going to get a happy-go-lucky, bolshy kind of person."