British actress Catherine Tate entertained fans in an amusing and often chaotic question and answer session at Fan Expo Boston on 8 August 2025.

She spent the session traversing the audience while taking questions, then taking questions from people queued at microphones, then finally inviting the remainder on stage to ask her questions.

I had borrowed a camera with a zoom lens from a family member in an attempt to take better photos at the session than I could with my phone but my choice backfired with Tate standing among the audience on the theatre floor mere feet away from me.

“Get that camera further away, Madam. That’s a very unflattering angle,” Tate joked.

“You, you’re not giving up are you, on this double-chin photo? Oh, go on. I just don’t want a photo like this,” she quipped as she pulled a face.

Yes, I must work on focus, but that is difficult in close proximity with a zoom lens on such a restless and animated subject.

When she was asked if she could have her character Donna Noble meet any other character in Doctor Who whom she hasn’t already met, her choice was inspired.

“I understand the assignment. It would be Chris Eccleston’s Doctor. Yes, because she’s as feisty as he is. And let’s have his northern energy meets my southern energy. That’s who I’d have!”

Not forgetting her Doctor, Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor actor David Tennant, she described how it was to work with him again on the three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials.

“It was like getting into a warm bath. It was like meeting an old friend again, you know? So, even though so much time had passed and the stories we were telling were different and we were both kind of different characters to where we left them, hugely. But it was just joyous as well! It was like [Donna] never left me. I didn’t realise it, you know?”

“The most challenging [thing about being on the Doctor Who set again] was getting up in the morning. They get you up at very early.”

“But I did like working with David [Tennant] the best!,” she added.