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Katherine Jenkins in the Doctor Who story A Christmas Carol
In a way, we should all have seen this coming. The Welsh opera singer Katherine Jenkins, who only recently split up with her fiancé Gethin Jones – an alumnus of the UK’s Strictly Come Dancing – has signed up to appear in the U.S. equivalent, Dancing With The Stars.
And of course, as a former Doctor Who actress (she appeared as the singing Abigail in the 2010 Christmas special A Christmas Carol), the stars will undoubtedly be very dear to her heart.
Katherine will take part in the 14th season of the celebrity dance-torture show, alongside other celebrity hopefuls such as Martina Navratilova, Jaleel “Steve Urkel” White, Gladys Knight, Donald Driver, Jack Wagner of Melrose Place, Melissa Gilbert of Little House on the Prairie, and, er, Derek Hough, best friend of Cheryl Cole. I know!
The new season of Dancing With the Stars starts with a live two-hour event on Monday, March 19 on ABC, but if you can’t wait that long, A Christmas Carol is available for download on iTunes and on Blu-Ray and DVD in the BBC America Shop.
And here’s a preview, to jog your memory:
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How in the world does one forgettable role on Dr Who make her a “Dr Who star”??????? omg u stupid writers!
Forgettable, Christina? She was in one of my favorite Christmas special actually..
She was a guest “star” for the Doctor Who Christmas special. So yes, she is a Doctor Who “star.” If you get your name in the credits before the episode airs, you definately qualify as a star.
Yes, her fame comes from her singing moreso than her appearance in 2010 in Doctor Who, but she certainly has Doctor Who ties.
I’m usually all ready to jump over internet bloggers for gross writing, but this one of those cases that the columnist/writer of this story didn’t butcher anything.
Hurray for me!
I don’t watch DWTS, but I hope Katherine Jenkins does well. I enjoyed watching her in the Doctor Who Christmas Carol. I just hope her being a contestant doesn’t make it more likely that this season will end up on BBC America one day.
I didn’t know who Katherine Jenkins was until the Christmas special. I liked her, but I am not sure I would qualify her as “a Dr. Who Star”. I would qualify her as a companion!
She was actually a guest performer on DWTS a while back. They were doing some classical music theme or something and it took me by surprise when I saw her on there.
I had to go back and read the episode description to even remember WHO she is.
She was a “Guest Star” maybe. Not an altogether alien term.
Do BBC producers ever go to opera? If so, maybe they could enlighten us in which opera theaters have Katherine Jenkins ever performed? Which roles? Do they teach classical music in Britain these days?
Here is a thought. Since BBC completely forgot the definition of “opera singer” or for that matter “opera”, maybe they should look up the terms in a dictionary?
Katherine Jenkins is NOT an opera singer. She has never performed in operas, she never will perform in operas. Her voice why pretty and clearly is enjoyed by a lot of people isn’t strong enough for opera, she’ll simply not be heard there. Her technique is not operatic. Simulating quasi-operatic sound with the help of a microphone doesn’t make one an opera singer. Even singing a few arias doesn’t make one an opera singer. Selling a lot of records makes one popular, but popular singer is not the same as opera singer. Performing IN operas where there is no amplification does.