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The presenter played herself in the festive special as Ruby Sunday appeared on a Long Lost Family-inspired show in a bid to track down her birth parents.
The festive episode saw this new incarnation of the famous traveller battle an army of goblins intent on causing bad luck for Ruby Sunday, an orphan determined to discover the truth about her past.
The short scene saw Ruby Sunday s neighbour Mrs. Flood nonchalantly brush off the TARDIS disappearing from her doorstep, after her neighbour was stunned to see it vanish.