The Twelfth Doctor was a teenage superfan
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Peter Capaldi's casting as the Doctor must have been all the sweeter for an actor who set his sights on Whovian world domination aged 14. According to the book The Official Doctor Who Fan Club Volume One (!) the teenage Capaldi, already a vigorous writer of letters to the BBC and the Radio Times, was incensed at being passed over for the presidency of the show's fan club after a rival, the 13-year-old Keith Miller, got the gig instead. Sarah Newman, the Doctor Who producer's secretary, became so cross at the subsequent deluge of Capaldi letters that she wrote to Miller: 'I think he's the end and I wish the Daleks or someone would exterminate him.' Presumably, all is now forgiven.
