‘Doctor Who’s’ latest companion, Jenna Coleman, vacates the TARDIS

The Doctor will have to say goodbye to yet another companion because Jenna Coleman, who played the impossible girl Clara Oswald, is saying goodbye to “Doctor Who”

After many rumors surfaced that Coleman was hanging up her key to the TARDIS, the actress broke her silence on the matter on BBC Radio 1. “I have left the TARDIS,” Coleman said. “It’s happened. I filmed my last scenes. It was emotional, it was.”

Host Nick Grimshaw was fairly shocked, but as it turned out, the exit wasn’t a shock and was being worked on for over a year.

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“It’s been in the works for a very long time,” Coleman said. “[Producer] Steven [Moffat] and I sat down a long time ago -- a year ago, a year and a half ago -- and tried to work out the best place to do it. And the best place to do it, and the best place to tell a really good story. Hopefully that’s what we’ve done. I think it’s really, really cool. Obviously we’re not going to give away any details. But it will happen at some point this season.”

But the actress who played the companion who threw herself into the very timeline of the Doctor, traveling back in time to save him (and all the other Doctors before him), is rather sad about leaving: “[There’s] not a lot of jobs where you get to go to work and have a spaceship and an alien as your best mate, and also run away from monsters. ... It’s been so much fun, I love it. It’s a unique beast.”

So it looks like this year will be one of goodbyes on “Doctor Who,” but here’s hoping that Peter Capaldi, who plays the Doctor, finds another companion who he meshes with as well as Coleman. The actress had great chemistry with him and the previous actor who played the Doctor, Matt Smith.

Now we can only wonder who will join the long line of companions next?