In 2011, David Tennant, who portrayed Doctor Who’s tenth and fourteenth incarnation, wed Georgia. They have five children, including actor Tyson.
Georgia Tennant has told how she and husband David navigate their family life with two neurodiverse children.
The 40-year-old actress gave a candid interview about her domestic setup with the former Doctor Who, stating the clan only eat together as a family once a year. Two of the couple’s fibe children have special requirements, Georgia explained in a recent podcast.
“I don’t understand how people gather around and eat together,” she said. Many of the children in our family are neurodiverse, so some don’t enjoy eating with other children. They eat in separate rooms, according to Georgia, who met David, 54, while working on Doctor Who in 2008.
Ty, the 23-year-old Georgian son of a previous relationship, was adopted by David and Georgia, who also adopted Olive, 14, Wilfred, 12, Doris, 10, and Birdie, age 5, from Georgia.
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On Russell Howard’s podcast Five Brilliant Things, Georgia, the daughter of Peter Davison’s ex-Denver star, discussed her children. We must prepare a different meal for them because a few of them won’t eat the same food, she continued. I spend two and a half hours a day serving various people in various rooms around the house. “
The actress, born in Hammersmith, west London, explained the different requirements mean her family rarely eat together at home, with Christmas the significant exception. Her experience mirrors that of other parents across the country after a recent survey found screen time is threatening to put play to chat at the dinner table.
Georgia, who was in BBC drama The Way last year, candidly described scenes at her home – at pubs when sh does manage to get her clan out together. She said: “We never [eat together]. Christmas, I think we do. Every now and again, we’ll go to a pub and we’ll all sit down and it’s just a f***ing nightmare. I just want to go home. They’re crawling on the table, one’s got headphones on. It’s just like, no.”
Georgia, who was 16 years old, dated Ty from a previous relationship. Ty, who David has adopted, has previously played in roles in television shows like House of the Dragon and War of the Worlds. Georgia and the BAFTA-winning Scottish actor have four children since they married and have four children.
Gushing about her husband and kids, Georgia also said on the podcast: “I like how different they are. It seemed weird that two people can keep creating such a different smorgasbord of humans. And that’s really fascinating.
