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==Personal life== [[File:Colin Baker January 2015.jpg|thumb|Baker at the 2015 Magic City Comic Con]] Baker's first wife was actress [[Liza Goddard]] who had appeared with him in the TV series ''The Brothers''. Their marriage lasted 18 months and ended in divorce.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/9960062/Actress-Liza-Goddard-Money-is-made-to-be-spent.html |title=Actress Liza Goddard: 'Money is made to be spent' |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |first=Toby |last=Walne |date=1 April 2013 |at=Marrying Dr Who and a glam rock star β a financially astute move? }}</ref> With his second wife, Marion Wyatt, an actress, whom he married in 1982, Baker has four daughters: Lucy, Bindy (an accomplished singer), Lalla and Rosie.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://colinbaker.webs.com/biog.html |title=Biography |work=Colin Baker Online |access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref> They also had a son, Jack, who died of [[sudden infant death syndrome]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/628670.stm |title=Visits 'would help prevent deaths' |date=2 February 2000 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/theatre/2002/12/colin_baker.shtml |date=24 September 2014 |title=Colin's Major role |work=[[BBC Three Counties Radio]] |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref> His wife and daughters appeared in ''The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot'' as themselves. Baker is a friend of American writer [[Stephen R. Donaldson]], who dedicated his 1991 novel ''[[Forbidden Knowledge]]'' to him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stephenrdonaldson.net/fromtheauthor/gi_view.php?Year=2004&Month=08&NewWindow=yes&Filter=&all=&any=&none= |title=Gradual Interview |work=stephendonaldson.net |last=Donaldson |first=Stephen R.|author-link=Stephen R. Donaldson |date=August 2004 |access-date=29 January 2014}}</ref> Baker is a critic of [[fox hunting]] and was among more than 20 high-profile people who signed a letter to members of parliament in 2015 to oppose [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] prime minister [[David Cameron]]'s plan to amend the [[Hunting Act 2004]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/news/1324609-snp-to-vote-against-tories-on-fox-hunting-ban-in-england-and-wales/ |title=SNP to vote against Tories on fox hunting ban in England and Wales |work=STV |date=13 July 2015 |access-date=17 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715203740/http://news.stv.tv/scotland-decides/news/1324609-snp-to-vote-against-tories-on-fox-hunting-ban-in-england-and-wales/ |archive-date=15 July 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref>
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