Personal Life
Tennant married actress Georgia Moffett, who played his Doctor's genetically-created daughter in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter" (and is also the real-life daughter of Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison), on 30 December 2011. Tennant and Moffett have a daughter, Olive, born in March 2011, and he adopted her then nine-year-old son, Tyler, in September 2011. Tennant does not discuss his personal life, especially his relationships, in interviews. "Relationships are hard enough with the people you're having them with, let alone talking about them in public," he said in December 2009. He believes that religion "must have" shaped his character, and he is an occasional churchgoer.
In 2008 Tennant was voted "Greenest Star on the Planet" in an online vote held by Playhouse Disney as part of the Playing for the Planet Awards. Later that year he underwent surgery for a prolapsed disc. Tennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005. In 2010 he declared his support for then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in April 2010 he lent his voice to a Labour Party election broadcast and in 2012 introduced Labour leader Ed Miliband at the Labour Party Conference. He is a celebrity patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.
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