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BBC Throws Out Complaints About ‘Bridgerton’-Inspired ‘Doctor Who’ Episode Featuring Gay Kiss
The BBC has declined to uphold a complaint about the 'Rogue' episode of 'Doctor Who' featuring a gay kiss between Ncuti Gatwa and Jonathan Groff.
Two disgruntled audience members took issue with the “inappropriate sexual innuendo” that developed between Gatwa’s Time Lord and Groff’s bounty hunter, Rogue, in a Bridgerton-inspired story. Mischievously flirting throughout the episode, shocking the other guests at the Regency ball with same-sex dancing, their united effort finally saw Rogue sacrifice himself to save the world, but not before he had given the Doctor a goodbye kiss. And Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor had an implied romantic connection with her female companion Yaz (Mandip Gil) but their feelings were left implicit with the odd yearning glance.
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