Less than 12 hours after David Tennant announced that he was stepping down as Doctor Who, and already the bookies having started to put up prices on who is going to be the next iteration of the world famous Time Lord.

According to Paddy Power, the running favourite is currently Patterson Joseph, whose agent put down the earlier rumours to us of his being linked with the part. David Morrisey, shortly to appear in the Christmas special, is currently running as second favourite, with James Nesbitt, John Simm and Russell Tovey following in quick order. At the other end of the scale, the long bets are Christopher Eccleston at 40/1, Hugh Grant (again!) at 100/1 and Robbie Williams at 150-1.

The full list of current Paddy Power prices is…

3/1
Patterson Joseph

5/1
David Morrisey

6/1
James Nesbitt

8/1
John Simm

10/1
Russell Tovey
Anthony Head

14/1
Richard E Grant
Robert Carlyle

16/1
Alan Davies

18/1
Jason Statham (how cool would that be?!)
Aidan Gillen
Harry Lloyd

20/1
Ben Wishaw
Julian Walsh
Nigel Harman

25/1
Bill Nighy
Stephen Fry
Chiwetel Ejiofor

33/1
John Barrowman
David Suchet
Marc Warren
Paul Bettany

40/1
Christopher Eccleston
Joel Beckett

50/1
Dean Lennox Kelly

66/1
Christopher Villiers

80/1
Ricky Gervais

100/1
Vinnie Jones
Hugh Grant

150/1
Robbie Williams


For purposes of comparison, when speculation was rife back in June that David Tennant was about to flee the Tardis, these were the odds offered then by William Hill:

2/1
Robert Carlyle

4/1
Jason Statham

6/1
James Nesbitt

7/1
John Simm

10/1
Julian Walsh

12/1
Daniel Radcliffe

14/1
Nigel Harman

16/1
Bill Nighy

25/1
Catherine Tate

33/1
Billie Piper

Gambling, of course, is a terrible thing to do. But we might go and have a sneaky fiver on Aidan Gillen anyway…

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