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Andrew Ross Hay, is a radio presenter from the Portsmouth area of Hampshire in the United Kingdom. He has been a fan of Doctor Who since he was a child of three watching The War Games in 1969. He wrote numerous Doctor Who short stories in his childhood for inclusion in various magazines and related articles, all of which were heavily influenced by the Dr Who comics that were around at the time. From 1983 onward his stories first focused on him being, "One potential aspect of one potential Doctor", then as being an alternate thirteenth Doctor. 1983 was also the year he began attending conventions and meeting an abundance of Doctor Who related stars. His first was at the 20 Years Of A Timelord convention at Longleat in Wiltshire.
In 1985, he was The Man In Blue in the audience of the televised Children In Need appeal, on the occasion that 20 Doctor Who stars were also present. In that same year he was part of two locally produced video productions, "Manifestation" where he played Detective Hughes and "Holding Out For A Hero", where he played The Thirteenth Doctor. The following year, as a member of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, he formed a Blackpool branch called The Good Companions Society.
In 1996, Andrew Ross Hay was among the specially invited guests at BAFTA in London, for the premier showing of the Paul McGann movie, in the presence of, among others, Paul and his brothers, Sylvester McCoy and writer Terrance Dicks.
In 1999, Hay played The Thirteenth Doctor again in a short video story called "Nightmare", which was set just after his regeneration in the Matrix on Gallifrey. In 2008, he put 110 of his favourite self written short stories together in a project he called "Tales From The Tardis" [Not to be confused with any other project of the same name]. This provided an ongoing timeline from his earliest writings as a potential Doctor, to his character's ultimate demise. As a radio host Andrew Ross Hay interviewed several Doctor Who stars for his "Newsweek" and "Community Matters" programmes.
In 2018, Andrew attempted to put together an internationally produced online audio series but sadly it never materialised. He did however eventually come up with scripts for four full length, six part stories entitled "The Thirteenth Dimension", "The Vines Of Death", "Time Of The Quarks" and "Circus Of Death". The Dr Who comics of his childhood had continued to influence most of his stories, and in these scripts The Thirteenth Doctor has as his companions, Mary Stone and his grandchildren John and Gillian.
Outside of the world of Dr Who, the royal enthusiast was the first member of the public to file by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother's coffin in Westminster Hall in 2002 [As confirmed by numerous media outlets]. He gave live radio commentary on Prince William's Wedding in 2011, having spent the previous night outside Westminster Abbey, and went live again for two special programmes covering Prince Harry's wedding, on the streets of Windsor in 2018.