Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan pregnant with first child as she debuts baby bump

Former Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has revealed she is pregnant with her first child.

The actor, who hasn’t officially announced the pregnancy, appeared on the red carpet at the Toronto film festival cradling a growing baby bump.

Gillan, who is married to writer and comedian Nick Kocher, was in Canada for the premiere of new film The Life of Chuck.

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Guardians of the Galaxy star Karen Gillan and stand-up Kocher married in 2022 at Castle Toward in Argyll, Scotland.

The couple exchanged their vows in front of family, friends, and even Karen’s former Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat.

Kocher, who has worked on the likes of Saturday Night Live and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, met Gillan after she messaged him on Twitter, now X.

“Oh gosh. I slid into his DMs on Instagram!” Gillan said on Live with Kelly and Mark in 2023. “He popped up on my recommended friends list on Instagram.

“The algorithm is tearing the country apart but it brought me together with my guy.”

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She went on to say that he never got back to her, so she reached out to him on Twitter instead. “I DMed him on Twitter saying, ‘Hi, your tweets are really funny. I’m Karen, by the way’, It wasn’t very interesting. I hadn’t really read his tweets.”

Gillan, who was recently on screen as Madeline in TV series Douglas is Cancelled will next be seen on the big screen in The Life of Chuck.

The movie, which is based on a short story by Stephen King, stars Tom Hiddleston in the lead role of Charles Krantz, whose life story will be told in reverse.

The film will begin with Chuck’s death at the age of 39 from a brain tumour and will then look backwards through his life.

The Life of Chuck does not yet have a theatrical release date.

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