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A '''boyfriend''' was a male partner in a [[Romance|romantic]] relationship. In the [[Victorian era]], the analogous term was "gentleman friend". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'', ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') The female counterpart was [[girlfriend]].

[[Mickey Smith]] became [[Rose Tyler]]'s boyfriend sometime prior to [[September]] [[2002]] only for her to dump him in favour of [[Jimmy Stone]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flight Into Hull! (audio story)|Flight Into Hull!]]'') They rekindled their relationship by [[2003]], it lasting until [[2005]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet Rose (short story)|Meet Rose]]'', ''[[Rose Tyler (short story)|Rose Tyler]]'', etc.)

[[Geoff Moon]] was an ex-boyfriend of [[Jackie Tyler]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet Rose (short story)|Meet Rose]]'')

Shortly following the [[London UFO crash]] in [[2006]], [[Rachel (Alien landing confirmed)|Rachel]] posted on the website [[Doctor Who?]] to ask if any of the [[alien]]s were [[single]] as she broke up with her boyfriend [[Robbie (Alien landing confirmed)|Robbie]] last [[week]] and she felt it would be a good [[opportunity]] to get back at him, imagining his [[face]] if he saw her [[fly]] off with an alien. She suggested that going to the local [[cinema]] in a [[spaceship]] would be a bit more impressive than being [[driving|driven]] around in [[Robbie's dad]]'s [[Mazda]]. Rachel ended her message by demanding Robbie return her [[Cindy Crawford Workout DVD]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien landing confirmed (short story)|Alien landing confirmed]]'')

[[Rhys Williams]] was [[Gwen Cooper]]'s boyfriend by the time she joined [[Torchwood Cardiff]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') They eventually [[married]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Something Borrowed (TV story)|Something Borrowed]]'')

By [[2010]], [[Rory Williams]] was [[Amy Pond]]'s boyfriend. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')

When the [[Eleventh Doctor]] was discovered by [[Latimer (The Snowmen)|Captain Latimer]] in his household, the [[Time Lord]] claimed to be [[Clara Oswin Oswald]]'s gentleman friend. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')

[[Angie Maitland|Angie]] and [[Artie Maitland]] considered the Eleventh Doctor to be [[Clara Oswald]]'s boyfriend, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'') referring to him as such after their trip to [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')

On their final adventure together, Clara would ask the Eleventh Doctor to pretend to be her boyfriend for her family's [[Christmas]] dinner. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') Not long after [[Regeneration|regenerating]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] clarified that he ''wasn't'' her boyfriend. When Clara said that she never thought he was, the Doctor stated that it wasn't her mistake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') A few weeks after that claim, from Clara's perspective, [[Danny Pink]] would become her boyfriend, to the Doctor's visible displeasure and [[jealousy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'')

Whilst speaking to the [[Half-Face Man]], [[Missy]] referred to the Twelfth Doctor as her boyfriend. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')

After he had known [[Charlie Smith]] for some time, [[Matteusz Andrzejewski]] declared his romantic desire ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightvisiting (TV story)|Nightvisiting]]'') and they became each other's boyfriends. ([[TV]]: ''[[Detained (TV story)|Detained]]'', etc.)