Welsh First Minister Mistaken for a Monster

[Dave]

from Ananova

Minister mistaken for Dr Who baddy

The First Minister of the Welsh Assembly was mistaken for a Doctor Who villain.

BBC staff thought Rhodri Morgan was an actor set to play a tree-like monster on the sci-fi show.

The First Minister was actually due to appear on BBC Wales political show Dragons Eye.

But he arrived at the BBC's Llandaff studios at the same time as a large group of actors appearing in Doctor Who.

The First Minister was initially ushered into the Doctor Who make-up room until staff realised their mistake.

A spokesman for the First Minister said: "They were filming Doctor Who at the time and there were loads of extras at the BBC Wales studios.

"A meet-and-greet guy from London obviously did not recognise him. A young make-up artist then came in and said to Rhodri: "Oh are you one of the trees?".

"Rhodri then twigged and had a good chuckle about it. He thought it was really funny. Viewers will have to watch Doctor Who to see if Rhodri is in it."

Apparently, if you were vertically challenged and Welsh you could have had full employment in Cardiff from Doctor Who all last year.

 

[ray gower]

Don't blame them. I wouldn't recognise Rhoddri in a crowd of one either and I've met him!

The whole of Google can only provide 4 pictures and one of those is a duplicate