Single White Who Fan: The Life & Times of Jackie Jenkins
Single White Who Fan: The Life & Times of Jackie Jenkins was a collection of the The Life & Times of Jackie Jenkins, a humourous slice-of-life Doctor Who Magazine column in the vein of Bridget Jones' Diary. The column was a faux diary written from the perspective of young Doctor Who fan "Jackie Jenkins," a fictional persona created and written by Vanessa Bishop, and chronicled Jenkins' exploits in and around Doctor Who fandom as well as episodes from her mundane life which she always connected back to Doctor Who.
The book's foreword was written by Gary Gillatt, Doctor Who Magazine editor during the column's run.
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The collection was first published by Hirst Books in 2011. A second edition was published by Chinbeard Books in 2017 which added additional material expanding the story to Doctor Who's 50th anniversary in 2013.
The second edition of the book was later adapted into a full-cast audio drama of the same name.
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The Life and Times of Jackie Jenkins, as featured in DWM (1997-1999), plus exclusive new material.
Doctor Who Magazine's flirty female diarist is back! Jackie Jenkins: cool, sexy and a little bit naughty. Jackie is a girl who views the world through TARDIS-shaped windows. She loves Doctor Who. She's sassy and holds down a busy PR job, but her real thoughts swim with string-vested sea monsters and silly ideas about who her antiquated Tom Baker doll really looks like (she’s long plumped for Starsky and Hutch's Paul Michael Glaser but recently spotted flashes of Michael Sheen). To Jackie, colours come in 'Police Box Blue' or 'Time Warrior Green,' a reference to the gorgeous shade of Pertwee's velvet jacket. She loves parties, vodka and belting out Bonnie Tyler numbers. She's never settled the question - Which is better - Inferno or Ambassadors of Death? or why the only man she’s ever fallen for seems to have all the dark-hearted qualities of the Doctor's own arch enemy The Master.
Now the fan-girl with attitude returns to present the best of her popular, funny Doctor Who Magazine column, which began its three-year run in 1997. Re-live the old and enjoy the new as Jackie updates her story with some brand new material. From pub nights out to TV nights in, incompetent friends to entangled relationships, follow Jackie and co as they ponder life, love and the Doctor, and address pressing issues such as “If the Doctors were Spice Girls, which ones would they be?"
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- Jackie Jenkins
- Chas
- Nigel
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