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10. Jodie Whittaker - The Poisonous Spider

The Doctor faces up against all manner of deadly creatures on their journeys through time and space, from the rampaging Daleks to the terrifying Weeping Angels. But it was Jodie Whittaker, the current incarnation of the Time Lord, that had a real-life encounter with a deadly beast right here on planet Earth.

While filming Series 11 of Doctor Who in South Africa, some of the South African crewmates had spotted a highly venomous sac spider crawling on a nearby tree and were filming it in amazement. Jodie was unaware of this and came running out of a nearby building just as the spider landed right on her head.

Jodie flailed to get it off to the horror of the South African crew and one of the English producers casually picked up the deadly creature and threw it further into the wilderness, to even more horror.

The non-South African members of the crew, including Jodie, were only informed later how close to death they came. Or at least, how close the human members of the team came. For Jodie, it would’ve simply been a matter of a quick regeneration, of course.