Friday 11 June 2010

A Secret Movie of a Call Girl?

Billie Piper’s raunchy telly series Secret Diary of a Call Girl is being made into a Hollywood movie – after becoming a smash hit in America.
The 27-year-old beauty, who plays unshockable high-class hooker Belle in the show, is currently working on a fourth and final series for ITV2.
But she now looks set for Stateside stardom with a silver screen debut after it took off on US channel HBO. The movie promises to break even more sexual taboos than the TV series – based on the books and blog of real-life escort Belle de Jour – which features bondage, threesomes and S&M orgies.
Mum-of-one Billie, named Glamour magazine’s Actress of the Year this week, told TV Biz: “I’m about to start filming the fourth series and then that will be it.
“I’m not sure it has legs past four seasons so we’re trying to develop a movie.”
A source added: “The book has been a worldwide success and the TV show has been a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, a movie is the next obvious step.
“Billie’s career would skyrocket if the movie took off. It’s the springboard she needs to take her talent to the States.” Hollywood bosses hope it will ape the success of Sex And The City, which also began life as a book before becoming a hit HBO show then spawning two movies.
Billie said she has even managed to talk her actor husband Laurence Fox round to the idea of a movie after he got used to seeing her strip off and romp with 30 to 40 men per series.
She added: “We didn’t watch for ages, then recently we watched an episode or two.
“It was actually a lot more palatable than I thought, and certainly more than he thought it was going to be – so that was a relief!”

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