On an early summer evening, Billie Piper is sitting in the back garden of a pub near her country home.
She's talking about sex and a city girl - the London-based professional escort Belle, whom she portrays in the Showtime series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," premiering June 16 in the United States.
In Canada it runs on Showcase and premiered last fall. "I was thinking it was quite racy for America," says Piper as she ponders just how the series will come across in the United States.
In the United Kingdom, when it first aired last September it was blasted in the media for glamorizing prostitution."I thought it was a side to prostitution that we are not normally exposed to, and I thought there was a story worth telling there," Piper says in defence. "I kind of knew it was going to cause a bit of an uproar, especially because I was playing the part. People are always so used to me doing children's shows or family drama."
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