Alex Kingston reveals she lost front teeth in fall

Alex Kingston reveals she lost front teeth in fall
Alex Kingston reveals she lost front teeth in fall (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Alex Kingston has revealed how she bashed in her front teeth after trying to save face following an earlier knock. The 48-year-old TV star, who plays River Song in Doctor Who, began to feel dizzy after playing down a head injury and ended up falling face-first. Speaking on Friday's Graham Norton Show, she said: "I was jet lagged, working with comedians, and I walked into a lamppost. "It was a comedy moment, but I was so embarrassed because I thought I would be the butt of their jokes so I pretended I was fine and that night I started to feel really woozy and I fell flat on my face. "I bit through my lower lip and knocked out my front teeth. It was really awful. I was doubly concussed and had to go straight to ER," the former star of TV's ER tells Graham. Alex, soon to be seen in Upstairs Downstairs, said she may well reprise her role as Dr Song in Doctor Who. "You may see her again. Let's just say, Upstairs Downstairs and Doctor Who don't film at the same time." The Graham Norton Show is screened on Friday at 10.35pm.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.