SCOTS star Karen Gillan will be able to keep an eye on Doctor Who after her last scene as his assistant … because she stole binoculars from the Tardis.

The 24-year-old admitted taking the memento from the set of the BBC’s most famous series when I spoke to her yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival.

She’s in the French resort to publicise her first movie, Not Another Happy Ending, which will begin shooting in Glasgow in July.

In her first interview since shooting her final Doctor Who scene as Amy Pond last Saturday, Karen admitted there were buckets of tears at the end.

Emotions were running high as Karen, Matt Smith, who plays the Doctor, and Arthur Darvill (Amy’s husband Rory) did their last scene.

Karen, who is staying tight-lipped about what happens to Amy, admitted: “It was a weird, serene day where everyone was feeling it.

“We don’t film in chronological order so the last shot we filmed was me, Matt and Arthur going into the Tardis.

“Then Matt closed the door for the last time and we were in darkness.

“We hugged and started crying. It was kind of tears of happiness.

“It was a feeling of ‘Look at what we’ve done’. It was lovely.”

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Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has admitted that she would love to appear in Community.

The cult NBC comedy features a spoof of the BBC’s sci-fi drama, titled ‘Inspector Spacetime’.

“I’ve seen a lot of Community,” Gillan revealed in a BBC America interview. “I watched one of the episodes and got hooked and now I really, really love [the show].”

The actress added that she would love to appear in an episode, calling the ‘Inspector Spacetime’ scenes “kind of brilliant”.

“I love Inspector Spacetime, it’s so funny,” she said. “I wasn’t familiar with it until recently when my flat-mate said, ‘Do you realise there’s a Doctor Who spoof in a show over in the States?’”

Community was recently picked up for 13 more episodes by NBC.

In the UK, the series airs on Tuesdays at 10.30pm on Sony Entertainment Television. NBC recently confirmed that the show’s fourth season will move to a new Friday night slot in the US this fall.

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Yes guys, that sad day came today – today was Karen’s final day of filming on Doctor Who, along with on-screen husband Arthur Darvill. Several Twitter accounts confirmed the news and tweeted about it, including Karen and Arthur themselves, Benjamin Cook and many more.

Whilst the end of another Doctor Who era has occurred, we wish Karen and Arthur the best of luck, as they move onto new projects, including Not Another Happy Ending for Karen!

Doctor Who’s seventh series will be screened for the first time at the Edinburgh International Television Festival 2012, when the Doctor will take on the Daleks once more.
The festival takes place from August 23 to August 25 and last year saw the premiere of series six episode Let’s Kill Hitler.

The BBC has yet to confirm when the new series of the cult sci-fi drama will hit our screens, though it is likely to follow the festival in the autumn.

Doctor Who co-creator Steven Moffat will attend the annual event, appearing on a ‘Masterclass’ panel for his other series Sherlock, alongside the show’s other writers Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue.

The Doctor’s sidekicks Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) are set to leave the show midway through the next series, and Moffat promises there will not be a dry eye in the house.

He also revealed that he considers the companions to in fact be the central characters of the series, saying: ‘The story of Doctor Who is always the story of the companion, it’s always their story.

‘It was Rose Tyler’s story, it’s Amy Pond’s story – the story of the time they knew the Doctor and how that began; how it developed and how it ended.’

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Who’s hot?: Scottish star Karen Gillan.

Karen Gillan, from Inverness, is Scotland’s sexiest woman according to a poll by FHM Magazine. The ‘official’ ranking of the hottest women on the planet sees Karen at number 36.

The list is topped by X Factor judge Tulisa with former X Factor judge Cheryl Cole in second place.

But Karen, who is due to bow out of her role as Amy Pond in the Doctor Who series, has certainly got striking looks with long slender legs and red hair.

She has been nominated in the Scottish Fashion Awards for this year’s Scottish Fashion icon, up against Tali Lennox and Tilda Swinton.

Meantime, she has been filming the final scenes for her departure from Doctor Who along with her on-screen husband Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill).

Heiress Paris Hilton is just ahead of Karen and The Help actress Emma Stone is just behind her.

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The Scottish Fashion Awards, sponsored by InStyle and hosted by Alexa Chung, have announced the nominees for Scottish Fashion Icon 2012!

The Scottish Fashion Awards, sponsored by InStyle, have announced this year’s nominees for Scottish Fashion Icon 2012, and the list includes Dr Who actress Karen Gillan, model Tali Lennox and Hollywood stars Tilda Swinton and Gerard Butler.

Nominee and model Tali Lennox, who also scooped a nomination for Scottish Model of the Year, said “I am so excited to be attending the awards this year, and to be nominated for two is so overwhelming and flattering. I am really proud of my Scottish roots, and can’t wait to spend some time in Glasgow”.

The Scottish Fashion Fashion Icon 2012 nominees:

• Barrie James O’Neil
• Karen Gillan
• Tali Lennox
• Emeli Sandé
• Tammy Kane
• Amy MacDonald
• Louise Linton
• Gerard Butler
• Tilda Swinton
• Calvin Harris
• Iain De Caestecker
• Emun Elliott

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I already posted this via our Twitter account @karengillanfan, but if you missed the delightful news…

The actress, who plays Amy Pond in the BBC1 show, has already amassed a whopping 53,000 followers after signing up to the microblogging site less than 24 hours ago.

Upon her arrival she tweeted: ‘Hello twitter…nice to meet you.’

Before adding: ‘Thanks to everyone following me!!! Argh this is really exciting. Oh, and by the way…WE ARE IN NEW YORK!!!!’

After being inundated with notifications from welcoming online fans, she later joked: ‘Someone could have told me to turn off my email notifications when i joined twitter today. Plus side? That many cyber friends.’

And 29-year-old Darvill, who plays her on-screen husband Rory Williams, found the rookie error particularly amusing.

He tweeted: ‘So @KarenGillan2 has NOT turned off her email notifications and her battery has died. Cue 50000 emails. Today just got so much better.’

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So in case you missed it – Karen is now on Twitter. Her account is @KarenGillan2 – please make her welcome (be nice!). Her account has not been verified yet, but is confirmed by Arthur Darvill and Steven Moffat!

Also – I added a bunch more HQ On Set images from Central Park too – Enjoy!

Last weekend the first-ever Doctor Who convention was held at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. It was the first of its kind since the show returned in 2005. Stars Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, along with Executive Producer Caroline Skinner, shared their thoughts on conventions, action figures and the forthcoming series.

What are your thoughts on this weekend and conventions?

Matt Smith (MS): It’s been wonderful. I’m really impressed with the way it’s been organised and run. From my point of view it’s nice to get to touch base with some of the fans. I would do it again. I think it’s been great.

Arthur Darvill (AD): Yeah, because we’re in the middle of filming so you’re concentrating so much on trying to make it really good and you forget that what you do is being seen by so many people and so many people care about it. It’s really nice to meet people.

Karen Gillan (KG): I really love meeting the fans so much, I’m really getting into it. Like I’ve drawn tally marks on myself and everything. Whoo hoo!

Have you been given any unusual gifts by fans?

AD: We had to sign a pair of pants.

KG: TARDIS underwear. Also, I met a guy who has actually changed his name to River Song by deed poll. And I was like ‘no you haven’t’ and then he got the ID out and yeah it’s real.

MS: It’s quite a cool name for a guy, River, isn’t it? Like River Phoenix, stuff like that. I’ve just been really infused by it – because often in America they’re really vocal – but they’ve been really cheery. Like hey!

KG: Also, there are just people from all over the world, it’s amazing.

How sad are you to be leaving?

KG: I am so sad to be leaving, it’s weird to be moving on from this. We’ve been doing this for quite some time now. But that’s really cool because we’ve had a long run at it and it’s really cool because we’re the longest running companions of the new series which is really nice. But I am really sad to be moving on but it kind of feels like the right time. You want to leave on a high.

AD: It’s strange, it’s happy and sad in equal measures really because we’ve had such a good time doing this and we get to work with some of our closest friends all the time. The scripts are incredible but there’s nothing worse than outstaying your welcome. It’s going to be very emotional when we leave.

KG: I couldn’t get through the read through.

AD: But one thing we’ve been talking about is that the show’s much bigger than all of us and it’s all about change constantly, so we go out on such an amazing storyline. We’re so privileged to have that anyway but yeah, it’s also going to be really sad.

KG: It’s just the nature of the show.

AD: The nature of the beast.

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As you all know, this weekend Cardiff played host to the first ever Official Doctor Who Convention! It was a resounding success, with fans able to experience a TARDIS set-visit, meet the stars (including Karen, Arthur and Matt!) for photograph sessions and autographs, and also talks with the cast and crew!

Some interesting tit-bits were revealed this weekend, including some regarding Series 7 – underneath the cut is the round-up for you! It does contain spoilers, so beware!

Article is under the cut as it may contain spoilers to anyone who didn’t hear the news earlier regarding how and when Amy and Rory may depart from Doctor Who!