‘Doctor Who’ Star Jenna Coleman on Clara’s Fate For Season 9 + Steven Moffat on the Doctor’s Marriage to River Song: ‘It Didn’t Happen’

There’s no going back for “Doctor Who” companion Clara Oswald, actress Jenna Coleman revealed the fate of her character for season nine. Also, executive producer Steven Moffat said the Doctor isn’t really married to River Song.

Since the new Doctor Peter Capaldi has been introduced in 2013, there have been rumours that Jenna Coleman would only be appearing for one more season before she exited the show. She refuted the reports, telling BBC before the Christmas special aired that she just “couldn’t walk away with the story being unresolved.”

Jenna Coleman Staying in Show as Clara Oswald + ‘Last Christmas’ Revelations

By the end of the special episode title “Last Christmas,” it was apparent that Clara would be staying. And just in case it isn’t clear yet, Coleman herself said that her co-dependent relationship with the Time Lord is what keeps Clara come back for more adventure with him even after her boyfriend Danny Pink’s death.

“But they are a bit addicted to each other, and to the dynamic that they share,” Coleman said in the new issue of Doctor Who magazine when asked if the Doctor and Clara can finally move on. “It’s getting so that one can’t go without the other, and I think that’s definitely what Clara’s realised. In a way that’s quite dangerous now, because she realises there is no going back for her…”

In the same issue, Moffat has addressed the question of the titular hero’s many marriages. Whovians can easily recall how the tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant, got tied to Elizabeth I in a hasty wedding, or when the eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith, had a Hollywood wedding with Marilyn Monroe. The first Doctor was also married before, presumably in Gallifrey, though the time-travelling alien never mentioned or discussed her.

And of course, there’s Eleven’s wedding to River Song, the daughter of his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Their wedding happened at a different timeline, which got erased when – Spoilers! – River got to “kill” the Doctor as she should have.

Moffat easily dismissed the Doctor’s marriages to his first unnamed wife, Elizabeth I and Marilyn. For Wife #1, she must have died a long time ago even before the first Doctor travelled to Earth. His marriage to Elizabeth was unconsummated, and therefore must not be valid. His wedding to Marilyn might not even happen at all. Moffat has a “suspicion” that the blonde bombshell was just teasing him, and the event did not really take place.

But his marriage to River is a debatable one. As Moffat insisted, there was no marriage.

“A point that no one seems to have noticed is this: in The Wedding of River Song there is no wedding and River Song doesn’t get married,” he said. “The Doctor never whispers his name to her, and is, in any event, miniaturised inside a robot replica of himself (Which even by bloke standards, betrays a certain reticence about commitment).”

“Doctor Who” will be back for its ninth season with Capaldi and Coleman this year.