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Karen Gillan cleaned up at the National TV Awards so it’s no surprise she’s going to keep her prize – by her bath.
The Inverness-born actress won the Best Female Drama Performance gong on Wednesday night for her role as Amy Pond in Doctor Who. Karen – who pipped Suranne Jones, Eve Myles and Jaye Jacobs to the award – said: “I’m going to put it in the bathroom.
“I could keep it on the side of my bath next to the shower gel.
“It’s fantastic I won on Burns Night. My parents are going to be so proud of me.
“I wasn’t expecting that and then to stand in front of that many people in the O2 Arena just screaming, I was trembling afterwards.”
Karen, 24, revealed she only just made it on stage.
She said: “I was late because of the crazy traffic in London. So I got there and then they called out my name. So there wasn’t a second to spare.”
Winning the award is a nice goodbye for Karen, who will leave Doctor Who this year.
She said: “I am so sad to be leaving Doctor Who. I have had the best years of my life on this job
“But it’s time to go on to other things and all stories come to their natural end.”
Karen will film in Scotland for the first time since becoming a star when she shoots a Glasgow-set rom com Not Another Happy Ending. She said: “I play an eccentric writer.”
The first batch of images from this evening’s National Television Awards have been added to the gallery – this is a selection of MQ and HQ images, with hopefully more to come soon!
Karen looked stunning, and congratulations to her again on her award win! Also congratulations to her co-star Matt Smith for winning Drama Performance (Male) too, although sadly Doctor Who lost out to Downton Abbey for Best Drama!
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Events and Appearances > 2012 > January – National Television Awards (NTA’s)
Karen Gillan won the award for the Best Drama Performance (Female) at tonight’s National Television Awards, for her role as Doctor Who’s assistant.
The Scottish star beat off competition from worthy competitors including Suranne Jones (Scott & Bailey), Eve Myles (Torchwood) and Jaye Jacobs (Waterloo Road).
Looking stunning in a short black dress with her deep red locks left free-flowing over her shoulders, an excited Karen ran up to the stage to receive her gong.
Presenting the gong was Hugh Bonneville from period costume drama Downton Abbey, who said that the fact that each award is selected by the public proves that the winner is truly “striking a chord with the audience”.
Karen – whose dulcet tones can be heard on the current series of Scottish Passport on STV – was clearly overwhelmed with her win.
“Hello” Oh my good God, thank you so much, this means so much to me, this is amazing but I am terrified right now!,” the Inverness-born actress said.
As well as starring in Doctor Who, Karen can also be seen tomorrow night in the BB4 show We’ll Take Manhattan, in which she plays the role of 60s supermodel Jean Shrimpton.
This year’s 17th NTAs were held at the 02 Arena in London, with over a thousand famous faces from the world of TV in attendance.
The annual awards ceremony sees the cream of the TV crop honoured for their performances over the last 12 months, with every winner in each of the 14 categories chosen by the public, who vote in a nationwide poll.
Huge congratulations to Karen on her win! So proud of her!! Pictures coming soon! 
I’ve added the Radio Times photoshoot to the gallery, in which Karen looks absolutely beautiful – a spectacular collection of images!
I’ve also added a small selection of HQ Events images from 2010 and 2011, which we previously only had in MQ.
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Photoshoots and Sessions > Professional Shoots > 017 – Radio Times
Events and Appearances > 2010 > April – Who’s Next, The New Era of Doctor Who – New York – HQ
Events and Appearances > 2011 > July – 2011 Summer TCA Tour – Day 2 – HQ
I’ve managed to add all of the images from the Ovation Panel at the TCA’s again, but this time in lovely shiny HQ!
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Events and Appearances > 2012 > January – Ovation at TCA’s Winter Tour – HQ
HQ Scans have been added from this week’s issue of the Radio Times.
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Magazine Scans > 2012 > January – Radio Times
We’re finally able to add these to the site – some rather stunning HQ promotional images and stills from We’ll Take Manhattan. A handful of On-Set images have also been added to the gallery!
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On Screen > 2012 – We’ll Take Manhattan
Tomorrow see’s the release of the latest issue of the Radio Times, and it excites me that Karen is going to be the cover star! There will also be a new photoshoot enclosed, and featured on the Radio Times website from tomorrow! See the preview below -
Karen Gillan stars as 60s fashion icon Jean Shrimpton, embarking on a New York affair with photographer David Bailey, in We’ll Take Manhattan on BBC4 next week.
RT did a photoshoot of its own with Karen, featuring some suitably sultry 60s styling. For more exclusive pictures, buy the new issue of Radio Times magazine – available from tomorrow – and read what happened when Karen met the real David Bailey for a Vogue shoot.
See Karen Gillan’s photoshoot in the new issue of Radio Times magazine, on sale Tuesday 17 January
Scans will be added to the site as soon as we can!
A three-minute promotional clip from We’ll Take Manhattan has been found over at Play.com – it’s been uploaded to our Youtube page!!
EDIT – Just realised that this clip has no sound unfortunately 
Am trying to fix this, and find a new copy, but until then, it’s still some nice clips to look at!
More photos from Karen’s appearance at yesterday’s Ovation panel for the TCA’s have been added to the gallery, plus the rest of the photoshoot from yesterday’s posted article!
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Events and Appearances > 2012 > January – Ovation at TCA’s Winter Tour
Photoshoots and Sessions > Professional Shoots > 016
PASADENA – Karen Gillan came to press tour to discuss her new TV-movie “We’ll Take Manhattan,” but as often happens at this event, the first question for her was about her more famous role on “Doctor Who,” which she will leave sometime during the British sci-fi series’ next season.
“I feel sad,” she said of saying goodbye to the role of Amy Pond, “because I am gonna leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end. It was a mutual decision with me and (‘Doctor Who’ showrunner) Steven Moffat. We had this lovely dinner and decided when the best time for me to go was, and it’s been decided. So I’m excited and slightly scared.”
Asked later how much of the new season she would be in, she laughed and said she couldn’t tell us, but, “There’s going to be a few episodes. A few really good episodes.”
“We’ll Take Manhattan,” which will debut on Ovation on March 3 at 9 p.m., stars Gillan as Jean Shrimpton, who was discovered by British Vogue photographer David Bailey (played by Aneurin Barnard) in the early ’60s. The duo traveled to Manhattan for what became an iconic photo shoot involving Shrimpton, a teddy bear and various New York buildings.
Gillan is a former model herself, and says she knew of Shrimpton well before she was approached about the film, discovering her while reading up on Bailey as part of her interest in photography.
“My boyfriend at the time showed me this picture,” she recalled, “and goes, ‘This is the most beautiful woman that’s existed!’ And I thought, (sarcastic) ‘Oh, that’s great.’ So when this came along, I went, ‘Yes!’”
And the movie not only allows her to lean back on skills from her former career, but provides her with a clear break from time travel, Daleks and Oods.
“What’s really nice is it’s such a contrast to the character I play in ‘Doctor Who,’ Amy Pond. It’s completely different. This is a coming-of-age story, and it’s about a girl figuring out life, and then something completely extraordinary happens to her. It’s just so different, which is what I want. I want variety.”
