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.”

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