Personal Life
Tennant neither denied nor confirmed rumours of his sexuality throughout the 1980s, before "coming out" in a 1994 interview for Attitude, a UK gay lifestyle magazine.
In 1998, Tennant was named in a list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party. He has since switched allegiance to the Liberal Democrats, citing disillusionment with Labour's ID card scheme.
He is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
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