Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith has revealed that he doesn’t want to see River Song appear with Peter Capaldi’s Doctor.

Smith joked at a Q&A panel at New Orleans Comic-Con last weekend: “I’m really possessive over Alex [Kingston]. I said this to Steven [Moffat]. I was like, ‘Listen, just don’t! Just not Alex. Anyone else, but don’t give [Capaldi] River.’ But Peter is the Doctor now so hey, what can I do?”

He added: “I think that Steven will be planning things that are going to unfold over years and I think he’ll reinvent the folklore, and it will become Peter’s folklore. But I am really proud of the fact that Alex was part of number Eleven’s life. My wife!”

The pair appeared together in 12 episodes during Smith’s era.

It was announced yesterday that Alex Kingston will join Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke alongside The League of Gentlemen‘s Reece Shearsmith in Chasing Shadows, a new ITV crime drama about a missing persons field unit charged with tracking down serial killers.

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