William Grantham

At the age of nine,  of Colchester, Essex, won the Blue Peter "Design-a-Monster Competition". His entry, the Abzorbaloff, was consequently featured in Love & Monsters, and he was noted as having created the monster in the episode's end credits. He also got to spend a day on set with Peter Kay, who portrayed the alien, and Neill Gorton, the prosthetic designer who finalized the design for filming. Producer Phil Collinson claimed in the commentary that accompanied the episode that Grantham was somewhat displeased with Gorton's rendering, as he had imagined the creature to be "the size of a double-decker bus". However, in the 2010 BBC DVD documentary, Who Peter, Grantham seemed to contradict Collinson by saying that he had been "stunned" by how well-realized the creature was.