Ryan Gosling’s Bootleg Doctor Who T-Shirt Is Now a Thing You Can Buy

In a brand new spherical of what can solely be described as leisure business information Madvert Libs, the unique artist behind a design showing on a bootlegged Doctor Who t-shirt depicting Ncuti Gatwa’s new Doctor has made the design obtainable correctly, after it went viral this week being worn by Ryan Gosling on the set of the Barbie film.

Yes, that’s one sentence, and all of it’s one way or the other true. Gosling went viral earlier this week—past set photos of him as Ken alongside Margot Robbie’s tackle the long-lasting Mattel doll exhibiting the duo in neon-bright skater outfits whereas taking pictures Barbie—because of a candid shot of the actor carrying a Doctor Who shirt celebrating Gatwa’s latest announcement as the most recent incarnation of the Time Lord. Gatwa, who’s set to seem alongside Gosling and Robbie in Barbie, is proven in a mockup of a possible costume for his Doctor, above the present model of the present’s brand. But right here’s the factor: he’s carrying what was clearly a rapidly made bootleg of the design, as a result of you’ll be able to nonetheless see the unique artist Matthew Purchase’s watermark over it:

Purchase determined to make the design—full with watermark for full “Ryan Gosling on the set of Barbie” cosplay accuracy—obtainable on the market on Redbubble, donating 50% of the gross sales of the shirt to the Goboka Rwanda Trust, a UK-based charity supporting help reduction for Rwandans. Naturally, the BBC wasn’t maybe too happy at first about what’s a really bizarre flip of occasions, pulling Purchase’s shirt from sale. But now that not solely has incoming/returning Who showrunner Russell T. Davies and the the present’s official accounts commented in regards to the state of affairs on social media, it seems like issues have, for now at the very least, been re-resolved, as Purchase’s shirt is once again available to buy.

Fingers crossed it stays that manner, so Purchase will get to lift cash for a very good trigger, and we proceed to get what needs to be one of many weirdest bits of viral promo for the arrival of a brand new Doctor Who star ever. And that’s saying one thing!

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