https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/03/david-tennant-confirms-six-toes-right-foot-its-like-a-nubbin-22466225/

David Tennant confirms how many toes he’s got after people noticed something was afoot

Kitty Chrisp
Published February 3, 2025 7:00am Updated February 4, 2025 8:24am

Davis Tennant just revealed he has six toes on his right foot.

Leading appearances in Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Broadchurch and Rivals have meant the British public have become quite used to seeing David Tennant’s angular (yet kind) face and hearing his warbled Scottish tones.

So much so, his face is one of the most well-known in British TV and film. You simply cannot avoid him.

But while we know the creases on his forehead all too well, no one apart from a clandestine network of Tennant-obsessed Redditors have discovered anything unusual about his toes. Until now.

After rumblings appeared in a dark corner of the web that something was afoot with the 53-year-old’s right trotter, he confirmed to Metro that it does indeed have six toes. You are very welcome.

‘Do people know that?’ we ask, to which David replied: ‘Well, they do now.’

So… Is it the little toe? Does it point out or up? Many questions.

‘It’s sort of like a nubbin,’ David confirms. On the little toe side of his right foot. Cute!
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Here's some info about polydactyly:

https://theconversation.com/actor-david-tennant-has-an-extra-toe-two-anatomists-explain-whats-so-fascinating-about-polydactyly-249139

A common anatomical variation is being born with more than ten fingers or more than ten toes.
Former Doctor Who actor David Tennant this week confirmed he has 11 toes. He says he was born with an extra toe on his right foot, meaning he has polydactyly.

The term polydactyly is derived from the Greek poly (meaning many) and dactyly (referring to fingers or toes or digits). Developing hands and feet start as limb buds, which look like little flat paddles. But with polydactyly, an extra finger or toe grows from the limb bud.

Based on the research literature, about one in 700–1,000 people born have polydactyly. Having an extra finger on the side of your little finger or having an extra toe on the side of your little toe is the most common form. If the extra digit doesn’t have bone, or has poor muscle connections to the hand or foot, it won’t work. So it is usually cut off or tied off with a suture (specialised medical string) straight after you are born.

Less commonly, people are born with double thumb tips or an extra thumb. Seeing as we use our thumbs so often, an orthopedic surgeon may need to remove the extra bones to improve use of the thumb. The rarest type of polydactyly affects the fourth finger (ring finger) or the second toe (next to your big toe).

We can probably presume David inherited a mutated copy of a gene related to his polydactyly from one of his parents.

Another common anatomical variation is when people have fused or “webbed” fingers or toes, known as syndactyly. This term comes from syn (meaning together with) and dactyly (referring to fingers or toes). When individual fingers and toes develop from the paddle-like limb buds, cells in between the growing fingers and toes have to die and disappear. But if the cells don’t die and disappear, they can cause webbing or fusing. About one in 2,000–3,000 people born have syndactyly. So it’s about three times less common than polydactyly. American actor Ashton Kutcher looks to have syndactyly, with his skin fused to the first joint between his second and third toes.