{"id":19433,"date":"2022-07-29T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1688035"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T10:15:12","slug":"david-tennant-and-catherine-tate-pay-tribute-to-bernard-cribbins","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/david-tennant-and-catherine-tate-pay-tribute-to-bernard-cribbins\/","title":{"rendered":"David Tennant and Catherine Tate pay tribute to Bernard Cribbins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Patrick Cremona\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 29 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>David Tennant and Catherine Tate have paid tribute to their former Doctor Who co-star Bernard Cribbins after the beloved actor sadly passed away aged 93.<\/p>\n<p>The pair appeared on ITV News at Ten last night (Thursday 28th July) as part of a longer news item about Cribbins\u2019s life and career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was lovely, I mean he was genuinely lovely,\u201d said Tennant. \u201cHe had a warmth about him and a twinkle about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge takeaway for our lives and certainly our careers to have had him in it,\u201d added Tate. \u201cThere\u2019s a Bernard Cribbins-shaped hole in the world now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;\" data-dnt=\"&quot;true&quot;\"><p lang=\"&quot;en&quot;\" dir=\"&quot;ltr&quot;\">David Tennant and Catherine Tate&#8217;s tribute to Bernard Cribbins, as included on tonight&#8217;s ITV News at Ten ????\u2728 <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/t.co\/M9hyWcjT4Z&quot;\">pic.twitter.com\/M9hyWcjT4Z<\/a><\/p>\u2014 KK\u2728 (@kkthedoctor) <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/kkthedoctor\/status\/1552774479310462976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">July 28, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;\" charset=\"&quot;utf-8&quot;\"\/><p>Tributes came flooding in after the news of Cribbins\u2019s death was made public yesterday, with returning Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies \u2013 who worked with Cribbins during his stint on the show \u2013 among those to post emotional messages online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this man. I love him,\u201d Davies wrote on <a href=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgjG22-tf69\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, before ending his post: \u201cI\u2019m so lucky to have known him. Thanks for everything, my old soldier. A legend has left the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile writer and actor Mark Gatiss wrote on Twitter: \u201cThere was no one quite like Cribbins. A gifted comic actor with an incredible seam of pathos and real heart. From Sellers to Star Turn, Wombles to Wilf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI once gushed to him about his lovely performance in Hammer\u2019s \u2018She\u2019. That afternoon he was off to play 5 aside \u2013\u00a0aged almost 90.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/s411wal01-e5b8600.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/s411wal01-e5b8600.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/s411wal01-e5b8600.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=354%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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Jackanory, and The Wombles, and a memorable guest appearance on Fawlty Towers.<\/p>\n<p>His first Doctor Who appearance came in the 1966 feature film Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD, but his most memorable role on the show was of course as Wilfred Mott \u2013 the loveable grandfather to Tate\u2019s companion Donna Noble.<\/p>\n<p>Cribbins appeared on ten episodes of the series in total between 2007 and 2010 and was spotted filming scenes for the upcoming 60th anniversary special just a few weeks before his death.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Cremona Published: Friday, 29 July 2022 at 12:00 am David Tennant and Catherine Tate have paid tribute to their former Doctor Who co-star Bernard Cribbins after the beloved actor sadly passed away aged 93. 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