Thank you to the mousey over at wank_report for this write up. Did do some minor editing to work in the links.



In January Doctor Who star Jenna Lou Coleman joined Twitter (@JennaLouColeman), and immediately started tweeting photos of herself, and answering fan questions. Hooray! said fandom.

But twas not to be. The official BBC account tweeted it were an imposter.

Doctor Who's Brand Manager and another DW actress also tweeted it was fake, and requested fans tweet and ask them to stop.

@JennaLouColeman struck back, angrily tweeting over and over that they were the real Jenna, calling anyone who accused her of being a fake "rude, liars, creepy stalkers, and haters" and claiming she was in the process of getting the account verified by Twitter.

In March, the real Jenna gave three interviews saying that she was not on Twitter.

JennaLouColeman also upset fans by repeatedly stating that Matt Smith would be returning in series 8, which the BBC have since confirmed is not true.

Several fans started tweeting to warn others the account was fake. The two main ones were @HannaBanana9 (who claims to have a teen daughter who was sexually assaulted by a catfish she met online) and @CallieWalnuts. JennaLouColeman immediately reacted angrily, calling them "rude" and "creepy stalkers" and insisting that she was the real Jenna. HannaBanana later tweeted she had reason to believe the account might be run by a man who had been bombarding the real Jenna with fanmail. Some fans noticed that the fake Jenna primarily followed and interacted with preteen or teen girls, and debated whether it was a man, and what their motives for impersonating Jenna were. JennaLouColeman made a tweet requesting all their followers try to get HannaBanana's account deleted by reporting her for spam, which resulted in Twitter suspending her account. HannaBanana then set up a new account, @PLeia2013.

In early April, a Doctor Who fan account emailed the Twitter helpdesk that investigates sexual exploitation (Twitter doesn't reply to questions and complains about fakers unless they come from the person being impersonated, but they do reply to questions about sexual exploitation) to say there was a rumour the faker might be a man using Jenna's name to prey on underage girls. Twitter replied stating they were aware of that account and were investigating it.

The next day, JennaLouColeman went back through months of tweets and deleted all tweets where they explicitly stated they were Jenna, and changed their profile info to remove the claim that they were the real Jenna. But they continued to tweet as though they were Jenna, and to interact with fans who believed they were her (e.g. fans tweeting, "I love you Jenna, which episode is your favourite?" and them replying, "Aww thank you! My fave episode is blah blah"). Any questions as to whether they were the real Jenna were ignored.

Time to introduce the third player. @KarenGillanUK has for years run a fansite Twitter for the previous Doctor Who actress, Karen Gillan. Her Twitter account states it is a fan, but she also runs an Instagram that doesn't, and she does not correct people who believe she is Karen. Still, nothing odd about that? Not her fault if people don't read the profile info. When the fake Jenna started, several fans asked KGUK tweet her followers to warn them about the fake Jenna, but she ignored them. KGUK frequently re-tweeted JennaLouColeman, was re-tweeted by her, and they often had friendly conversations. What's weirder is that JennaLouColeman often tweeted as though KGUK actually was the real Karen Gillan (encouraging "all my fans" to follow KGUK, for example), and never interacted with or followed Karen's real account (@KarenGillan2).

In late April, a fan who apparently is a mutual follower/friend of HannaBanana's tweeted KGUK thinking she was Karen. HannaBanana sent the fan an @ message saying they'd made a mistake, and pointing them to Karen's real account. None of the tweets were tagged with @KarenGillanUK and she does not follow either HannaBanana or the fan, so it's unclear how she saw the tweet in the first place. But she did, and sent HannaBanana angry tweets calling her a "creepy stalker" and accusing Hanna of stalking her (KGUK's) @ mentions. These tweets were nearly identical to the tweets JennaLouColeman sent HannaBanana in January. Hanna replied that she was blocking KGUK. (I haven't been able to get screencaps of that but this is a copy&paste taken with permission from a private Doctor Who Facebook group.)

[Redacted] Dear @KarenGillanUK, I love you! You're my favourite actress. Please follow?
HannaBanana9 @[redacted] Hey, that's actually a fansite. Karen's real Twitter is @KarenGillan2.
[Redacted] @HannaBanana9 Cheers for that
KarenGillanUK @HannaBanana9 Please stop stalking my @ mentions it is very creepy!
HannaBanana9: @KarenGillanUK?? I tweeted one friend of mine who made a mistake. I've never looked at your @s! I didn't @ you so how did you see it??
KarenGillanUK: @hannabanana9: Leave me alone you stalker. You're being very rude and creepy.
HannaBanana9 @KarenGillanUK Blocking you now.

Enter player 4, @AnnabethColeman. The account only has a handful of tweets and most are defending JennaLouColeman and attacking those that tweet that it's an imposter account. Annabeth also claims to have met the owner of the JennaLouColeman account in person. On May 25, Annabeth sent HannaBanana a series of tweets calling her a "creepy stalker" and claiming that JennaLouColeman had tweeted that she was a fansite and not the real Jenna (which is a lie). HannaBanana tweeted back to Annabeth saying if the FakeJenna wrote "fan account - not the real Jenna" or something similiar in her profile info she and the others would stop tweeting that it was a faker.

Within literally 60 seconds seconds of this tweet exchange, KGUK had risen to Annabeth's defence, posting a tweet requesting all her followers try to get HannaBanana's account deleted by reporting her, because of her being so "rude" and such a "creepy stalker" towards Annabeth. Neither KGUK nor Annabeth follow each other, and KGUK was blocked by HannaBanana - so how did KGUK see their tweet exchange in the first place? Especially to be able to rally her followers in support of Annabeth so quickly. And why does she care that Hanna was rude to Annabeth, a new account she doesn't follow and has never communicated with? A couple of other fans pointed out that HannaBanana was only saying that JennaLouColeman was a faker, which she is, and what's the big deal. KGUK replied claiming that JennaLouColeman had never pretended to be Jenna, which is a whopping lie.

Screencaps of KGUK asking her followers to help get Hanna/Leia deleted for being rude to Annabeth:
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Screencap of KGUK lying that JennaLouColeman had never claimed to be the real Jenna:
http://s7.postimg.org/cig72qxxn/karen.jpg

A few hours later, KGUK deleted all her tweets on the subject. The following week, Twitter suspended JennaLouColeman's account, and unsuspended HannaBanana's. HannaBanana has since deleted most of her tweets on the subject. Annabeth has not tweeted since.

Three different accounts who promote a fake account and angrily jump to its defense. Three accounts that use identical words and always use the same insult "rude, creepy stalker". Three accounts that have all been busted lying about the same thing. Two of whom try to get accounts that accuse JennaLouColeman of being fake deleted, by requesting their followers make fake spam reports. Three people who appear to monitor each other's @ mentions so closely they can jump to each others defense within minutes of the other receiving an @ message that is rude or accuses them of being fake, despite not following each other. I don't have concrete proof that @JennaLouColeman, @KarenGillanUK, and @Annabethcoleman are all the same person, but I'd bet my remote control TARDIS they are.

The fake Jenna is still actively impersonating Jenna on Instagram, and still bullying anyone who says she's a fake.

(It's the same person, @JennaLouColeman had a link to http://jennastumblings.tumblr.com/ in her Twitter profile and tweeted it was her real official Tumblr blog, and now that Tumblr links to that as her Instagram account.)

Tweet from Doctor Who's brand manager confirming the Instagram account is fake.



TL;DR Faker impersonates one of the stars of Doctor Who, continues even after the BBC and the real actress make announcements that it's a fake, and calls anyone who says she's not the real actress a "creepy stalker". They create an obvious sockpuppet, and is most likely the owner of a longtime fansite for another Doctor Who actress. After being suspended from Twitter, she's currently impersonating the actress on other sites.