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Matt's Mum is Doc's assistant

Doctor Who's mum will become the Time Lord's latest assistant after deciding to move on from her job at the Chron after 13 years.   Great Billing resident Lynne Smith began work in the Chron's advertising department in 1997 before moving on to work for the newspaper's glossy magazine, Image. But after her actor son, Matt, landed the role of Doctor Who, she decided the time was right to fulfil her dream of opening her own women's accessories shop, while also running Matt's fan club. And despite him only appearing in the hit show for a minute so far, Lynne is already being inundated with fan mail for Matt. She said: "With all the Doctor Who stuff, Matt really needed somebody to run his fan club, so I thought what better than to keep it in the family, because nobody else is going to do it like me. "I think everybody who writes in should get an autograph, because he needs his fans. "And already, we've had loads of stuff coming in. "From the day he was first announced as the new Doctor, people have been writing to him from all over the world. "We've had stuff come from Australia where somebody sent him a T-shirt with a Matt Smith logo on it and he's had hundreds of Christmas cards, birthday cards, all sorts of things." At the moment, the BBC and Royal Mail are working together to manage the flow of fan mail to Lynne, but even before Matt's first series as the Doctor has started, she is receiving a large crate of post every week. To celebrate her new job, Lynne's colleagues at the Chron threw her a lavish party yesterday where she was inundated with cards and gifts. She said: "I've absolutely loved my time working on the Chron and Image. "I've been very proud of what we've done and working for Image was always something that was completely 'me'. "When I first started there was always the joke that almost my entire salary was going so quickly because I was going into all these lovely shops to see customers, and ending up buying things. "But because of the work on the magazines and visiting all those lovely bespoke shops I've always wanted to set up my own accessories business, so this should be a wonderful new start for me." Lynne's shop, The Accessory Room, will run as part of the current Butterflies store in Brookland Road, Kingsley. From a base inside Butterflies, Lynne will sell a range of goods, including handbags, jewellery and clothing accessories. The store will open at the beginning of April.   Source: Northampton Chronicle & Echo

07 Feb 2010 by Simon 0 comments

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