The Odds On The Next Doctor Who Shorten For Olly Alexander

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Those outside the UK will look upon the odds on the next Doctor Who with bemusement. It’s like gambling on who’ll be the next host of the Price is Right. However, Brits see this as a cornerstone of their culture. They also know it’s a great excuse for a flutter at online betting sites in the UK like Bet365. So, they mull over the possibilities and listen to the digital rumour mill which right now is tipping Olly Alexander for the role, causing sub-editors to add a salient word.

Journalists and sub-editors rarely get on. Journalists think sub-editors are out of touch old men who bah-humbug far too much. For their part sub-editors, many of whom used to be journalists, have a far more accurate view of their younger colleagues. It’s unprintable, but it’s accurate. So sometimes there’s a little clash of cultures. The perspective of age granting subs a view the youth do not possess. The odds on the next Doctor Who suddenly favoring Olly Alexander for instance.

Many a young journalist bounced into the office reporting this good news. They were overjoyed the odds on the next Doctor Who tipped a gay man for the role. You can’t bet on sports in the UK to start accepting everyone, but Television sure will. Their words rang with victory. Then every sub-editor in the country, read their words, peered into their own memories of Doctor Who from their childhood and carefully added the word “Openly” to every single article on the subject. 

Michaela Coel 4/1 In Odds On The Next Doctor Who

Of course, the odds on the next Doctor Who don’t actually favor Olly Alexander. Not really. He currently gets 6/1, the same price as the far more likely Michael Sheen. You get the impression Michael Sheen would gnaw his own leg off to get the part. If only to compete with friend David Tennant. The favorite right now is Michaela Coel at 4/1, although many fans are rather hoping Richard Ayoade will get the job. He’s an 8/1 outsider though, alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge. 

Odds On The Next Doctor Who

• Michaela Coel 4/1
• Michael Sheen 6/1
• Olly Alexander 6/1
• Kelly MacDonald 6/1
• Vicky McClure 7/1
• Richard Ayoade 8/1
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge 8/1
• Maxine Peake 8/1
• Natalie Dormer 8/1
• Kris Marshall 10/1 
• See more at bet365…

Perhaps that’s why, despite those short odds on the next Doctor Who, his representation were quick to nix the rumours. He doesn’t want people to think he places himself in such company. “As nice as it is to see interest in this story regenerate, it just isn’t true.” Posted his manager Martha Kinn with Whovian touches. “As Ood as it might sound, Olly is focusing on his music, for the time being.” So perhaps online sportsbook sites in the UK like Bet365 are just a bit wrong.

Bet On The Next Doctor Who At Bet365

They have been wrong before. Just like, if we’re all honest about it, Doctor Who has been gay before. Jon Pertwee wore a cape, Tom Baker looked distinctly ac/dc and no straight man would swan about the galaxy in what Sylvester McCoy wore. The Peter Davidson regeneration even went to pieces over the death of Adric his young male companion. Need we really say more? So much as the odds on the next Doctor Who tipping Olly Alexander are great, it’s nothing new.

“Olly would make a marvelous Doctor Who.”

• Russell T Davies – Former Show Boss

Plus we do have to note that this is all based on a rumour Jodie Whittaker has quit the job. In of itself this seems a little unlikely. She’s only done it for five years, that’s barely anything for a time lord. Still, perhaps she doesn’t want to get type-cast. Perhaps she’s just bored. Either way, UK gambling laws permit you to wager on such irreverence and so people will. So whilst you may see the odds on the next Doctor Who at Bet365 as strange, for Britons, they’re a tradition.   

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We take a look at the odds on the next Doctor Who and how Olly Alexander probably wouldn’t be the first gay man in the role.