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[[File:That Time I Made a Doctor Who Monster - 2021 Retrospective|thumb|Grantham talks about his entry and ''Love & Monsters'' in 2021.]]
At the age of nine, '''{{PAGENAME}}''' of [[Colchester]], [[Essex]], won the ''[[Blue Peter]]'' "Design-a-Monster Competition". 

His entry, the [[Abzorbaloff]], was featured in ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'' and he was noted as having created the monster in the episode's end credits. He also got to spend a day on set with [[Peter Kay]], who portrayed the alien, and [[Neill Gorton]], the [[prosthetics designer]] who finalised the design for filming. [[Producer]] [[Phil Collinson]] claimed in the commentary that accompanied the episode that Grantham was somewhat displeased with Gorton's rendering, as he had imagined the creature to be "the size of a double-decker bus". However, in the 2010 [[BBC DVD]] documentary ''[[Who Peter]]'', Grantham contradicted Collinson by saying that he had been "stunned" by how ''well''-realised the creature was. [[Andrew Pixley]]'s notes for ''Love & Monsters'' in [[DWMSE 14]] (cover-dated 9 November 2006) offered something of a compromise between the two accounts, claiming Grantham was impressed by [[Millennium Effects|Millennium]]'s realisation of the Abzorbaloff but was also bemused that the no-one realised the creature was supposed to be the size he imagined.

In early 2021, an adult Grantham posted a retrospective on his time with ''Doctor Who'' on his [[YouTube]] channel Channel Pup.

At the same time, as part of the ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!]]'' tweetalong of ''Love & Monsters'', he also helped judge a new monster design competition, whose winner, the [[Krakanord]], ended up appearing in an original ''Doctor Who'' minisode, ''[[The Genuine Article (webcast)|The Genuine Article]]'', facing the Tenth Doctor alongside an [[Abzorbalovian]]. Grantham acted as director and chief animator for the short [[animated episode]], which was written by [[Dominic G. Martin]] and produced by [[Emily Cook]].

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