Grant’s Doctor—making his appearance about 16 minutes into the special, and born from Broadbent’s Doctor managing to electrocute himself trying to re-wire a superweapon gifted to the Daleks by the Master—is exactly what you’d expect out of a 1999-era Hugh Grant, an immediate romantic hearthrob. His first and last act as the Time Lord is to flirt with Emma, only to be promptly shot by the aforementioned superweapon, which is capable of disrupting the Time Lord regeneration process.
Yes, Grant’s Doctor is meant to be the final Doctor—just another plot point Moffat would revisit two and a bit decades later!—until the Doctor magically revives from Fatal Death, this time as the first on-screen female Doctor, Joanna Lumley, and Fatal Death ends with the Doctor no longer longing for Emma, but flirting with the Master.
Alas, weird rumors or not, it’s probably the only time we’re likely to get to see Grant attempt to be the Doctor, even for only about a minute. But given the current silliness revolving around the very long wait for Doctor Who’s return—and its impending re-transformation under returning showrunner Russell T. Davies—it’s perhaps a good reminder to maybe not take all things pertaining to adventures in Time and Space quite so seriously.
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