[NEWS] Doctor's new companion revealed

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SPOILER SPACE (for those still bothering to watch this travesty of a show)
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Out goes (sort of) the blonde white girl, and in comes a middle eastern / Indian girl to appease the checkboxes on the quota lists ...
    Who is Varada Sethu Playing in Doctor Who? New Companion Name Revealed
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    The name of the next Doctor Who companion has been announced.
    Varada Sethu will be playing Belinda Chandra.
    She'll be travelling in the TARDIS alongside the Fifteenth Doctor
    (Ncuti Gatwa), and later joined by Millie Gibson's character, Ruby
    Sunday, who temporarily left the Type 40 TT ship in Empire of Death,
    the Series 14 finale.
    Showrunner, Russell T Davies, says: "I first worked with Varada on a
    BBC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and it's a joy to welcome
    her on board the TARDIS. Right now in the studio, shooting for 2025,
    we've got Ncuti, Millie, and Varada fighting side by side - we need
    all three, because the stakes are higher than ever!"
    Sethu had been seen on location filming with Gatwa, leading many to
    speculate that Gibson had been dropped from the show; fortunately,
    those rumours were wrong so in Series 15, the Fifteenth Doctor will
    have two companions, likely from the third or fourth episode of the
    run.
    Varada was last seen as a different character in Boom, but Belinda is
    apparently unrelated to Mundy Flynn. Davies clearly likes the surname
    Chandra, however, as that was also the last name of Rani in The Sarah
    Jane Adventures.
    Doctor Who Series 15 is now in post-production, and is due to air in
    2025. But before that, we have Joy to the World, the Christmas special
    written by former showrunner, Steven Moffat.
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