Love on the Murder Mile next year?

According to sources Love on the Murder Mile is due to start filimng in the summer so this means if the production goes ahead should come out early 2012! So all those Billie & Tennant fans will just have to wait to next year!

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Bye Bye Belle

Billie Piper’s not feeling well and she’s blaming her two-year old son Winston. “When you have a child it’s really hard to shift illness because they’re continuously bringing it into the house,” says Piper coughing.
Even on an ‘off’ day she’s managing to look glamorous in a short T-shirt style dress, over-the-knee boots and a long woollen cardi.
She’s shorter, more petite, than you’d expect and even the wide mouth and strong brows seem softer in the flesh. Winston aside, it’s understandable Piper’s feeling exhausted. She’s just finished a seven-month shoot filming the fourth and final series of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl — the successful TV show based on the diaries of real-life escort Belle De Jour. Her performance as Belle has been applauded, but when it was first announced in 2007 that Piper, former pop princess turned Doctor Who assistant, was to play the high-class hooker, people were up in arms.
“Outraged,” says Piper, sipping a cup of tea. “I didn’t think it would be as shocking as it was, and I didn’t really think that me being in it would be shocking. I just thought I’m an actor and it’s just acting.” She admits the furore hit her hard. “Yeah, it always does. It really upsets me that people go, ‘What is she thinking’? And also that they think it’s slightly distasteful and insensitive.
“There are loads of women out there who have a horrid time of it (prostitution) but in my mind, it’s a very different thing because there are women out there who genuinely enjoy it.
“Women go out and have casual sex and talk about it endlessly and Sex And The City is a really good example of that. That show’s sometimes quite shocking and yet people also applaud it, but as soon as money changes hands then that changes everything.” It was the chance to address these double standards that interested Piper in the first place.
“To play a prostitute who doesn’t see herself as a victim and hasn’t been forced into it but has chosen to do it, I find all of that quite interesting.” Given Belle’s profession, it’s little wonder Piper’s had to spend the majority of her time in compromising positions — as she puts it “endlessly prancing around in your knickers trying to be sexy”.She’s now so comfortable doing sex scenes that at times she’s had to remind herself that the actors cast as her numerous clients can require a little cajoling.

“I have to remember to be sensitive and tactful because they don’t know the crew and I obviously know and love the crew and have a big support system. But then at the end of a really hard week on set you’re just like, ‘C’mon, mount me’!” she laughs. As for preparing to strip off, she says she “works out a bit”, adding: “I also really watch what I eat when I’m filming so I don’t have those moments where I think ‘I can’t do this’ because I don’t feel physically confident enough’.” The final series may, as she says, be “less about flesh”, but the client requests are no less shocking, with ‘Adult Baby’ and ‘Count Dracula’ among the upcoming scenarios. Even after three years, Piper admits to being “a bit shocked” when she first reads the script.

“I mean I like to have fun but I find some of these ideas…” she says, trailing off. I just think, ‘Well that seems a bit far- fetched’, and then I meet the people who are telling their stories and it would be rude to go, ‘Well, that’s a bit much, don’t you think’? It’s someone’s life (so you can’t) suddenly be sitting there going, ‘I think you need to go to a doctor’.” The sense that the series has explored all the potential client/ escort avenues is largely why it’s been decided to bring Belle’s tale to an end. She says: “I think we’ve pretty much been everywhere with the stories and as that’s at the heart of every episode, you wouldn’t want to exhaust it to the point of just complete ridiculousness and seediness. I really like this job but you always want the story to have legs and not be that you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel. I think if we go any further then we might be guilty of that.” Since the first episode, viewers have witnessed Belle’s attempt to keep her professional and personal life, including her potential relationship with best-friend Ben, separate. But in this final series those two worlds merge. So what’s next for Piper? She’s not yet 30 but has managed to cram more than most into her life. Born in Reading, she came to prominence as a 15-year-old pop star after being spotted on a Smash Hits campaign. Her marriage to Chris Evans in 2001 raised eyebrows due to their 16-year age gap. After their amicable divorce six years later they have remained resolutely good friends. Professionally, she’s made the seemingly smooth transition from singing to acting and has received rave reviews for her performances on stage in Treats, where she met husband Laurence Fox, and on screen in the likes of The Ruby In The Smoke, Mansfield Park and A Passionate Woman. She adds:

“I think I’ve chosen things that have interested me and then kept trying new and different things. It has worked out well and I can thank Doctor Who for all of that really. It was wholly responsible for giving me a great opportunity.” She wouldn’t mind doing more theatre, she says, and her name has been linked to the lead role in a stage adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.

“I’ve been approached about it but I certainly haven’t said yes to it,” is all she’ll say on the matter. “I just want to do something radically different and I don’t know what that is yet.

Billie Admits Hubby Watches SD

Actress Billie Piper said her hubby really enjoys watching her raunchy TV show Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. The 28-year-old star plays prostitute Belle de Jour in the ITV2 show and she admitted her husband Laurence Fox doesn’t mind watching her sex scenes but her dad isn’t so keen. She said to Britain’s more! magazine: ‘Laurence caught the last series and really enjoyed it. But my dad doesn’t watch it!’ The actress gave birth to her little boy Winston two years ago and said she isn’t sure when baby number two will come along. She said:
‘Who knows? I was lucky, because I had Winston when I was quite young. A lot of my friends are pregnant now, which I’m really pleased about because it’s lovely to do it all together.’

Billie wants next role to be an X Factor judge

Billie Piper has admitted that she would love to be a judge on The X Factor.
The Doctor Who and Secret Diary Of A Call Girl star found fame in the late 1990s as a singer with hits including ‘Because We Want To’, ‘Girlfriend’ and ‘Honey To The Bee’.
Asked if, as a fan of the show, she would like to join the X Factor panel, Piper told Heat: “I would love that more than anything! There are two things I fantasise about: being Beyoncé and being a judge on The X Factor.

“The worry is whether you’d be taken seriously as an actor afterwards. But you know what? I’d deal with it, because it’s all I want to do! I think I’d take it very seriously and end up crying a lot.” When it was suggested that Cheryl Cole may not be picked for the US version of the show because of her Geordie accent, Piper said: “Surely she could just speak a bit more slowly. Or else I can do it, obviously. “Wasn’t Dannii [Minogue] brilliant this time round? I think having a baby really suits her. And it’s given her huge breasts! Massive ones!”

TV Choice Billie Piper Interview

Hannah and Belle’s lives are starting to overlap in the fourth and final series of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl. Billie Piper, who is married to Lewis actor Laurence Fox, with whom she has a two-year-old son, Winston, reveals more about Belle’s exploits and admits she wouldn’t rule out working with her husband…

Is this definitely going to be the last series of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl?
Yes, and it’s all quite weird this year because the drama is very heightened. And the fact that Belle’s two lives are overlapping means she’s losing it a bit. She’s slightly unraveling! But I do love the character.

Did you have to do much research before taking on the role?
Yes because I knew nothing about prostitution, apart from the stuff we’re exposed to, which is so different to what this show is. So it was almost like you had to start afresh really because the real Belle has this attitude towards sex that’s so different to most of us. And you have to meet that person to make this idea human. You can make sense of it. You can see her and work out whether it’s some weird fantastical fallacy, or whether it’s the real deal. You can’t sit there going, ‘Ooh well, I don’t think that’s very nice.’ It’s has to be, ‘Well I don’t care. That’s what I do.’ And she seems to be cool with it.

In her shoes, we might be tempted to snap up a sugar daddy!
I think that happens a lot. Certainly some of the escorts I met when we were doing research told us that they meet guys called ‘lifetime sponsors.’ They’ll finance their entire life and occasionally they’ll have dinner with them or maybe have sex with them.

Belle gets together with her best friend, Ben, in this series. Have you ever done that in real life?
Yes, I did go out with a friend of mine. It didn’t last and we’re not friends anymore. It’s not a winning endorsement. It is quite muddy water, isn’t it? I only did it for a couple of years, but it’s what happens afterwards — the awkwardness and the breakdown of the circle of friends. That’s not something Ben and Hannah have a problem with though, because they don’t have a circle of friends. It’s just them, and it’s quite all-consuming. But I think one of you always loves the other more. Still holds a torch for them. It’s quite hard to let go and quite hard for it to be purely platonic with no sexual tension there.

It seems as though Stephanie’s daughter Poppy may turn into a bad girl in this series?
Yes, she’ll dance with the darkness. She’s a funny little character and I think Belle falls in love with her a bit. She doesn’t go gay for Poppy, she takes her under her wing. She’s a really nice character — someone being exposed to the whole world again through fresh eyes and being shocked and appalled. This is a young girl and it disgusts her and really breaks her heart that her mum should dabble in anything like that. It’s nice to see that side of it because otherwise it’s all singing and dancing.

Does Belle continue to run Stephanie’s business while Stephanie is in prison?
No, just until she gets out. You will see her again.

What can you tell us about Belle’s clients this series?
There’s a guy who likes to dress up like old horror movie characters. But the one that really got me was a guy who liked to dress up as a baby. Remember these are all based on true stories. It’s not really about sex — it’s about someone mothering them while they’re wearing a nappy, with a dummy and a bottle. There are even clubs where people can go dressed as babies and they all ‘goo’ and ‘ga.’

Have there ever been any dark corners of sexuality where you and the writers have thought it was too much to put into the show?
There have been moments where I’ve thought, ‘I don’t get that. I think it’s too far fetched.’ Then through research and talking about how we’re going about it, it’s become more palatable and not massively distasteful to watch. There are lots of discussions about how to address things that could be tricky, and just whether people can watch it. It doesn’t feel very ‘Page 3’ to me. It feels more heightened and taken slightly out of reality. And the sex is very funny as opposed to dirty and suggestive.

Is this the first project that you’ve worked on where you’ve also been the executive producer?
Yes, it’s more of a selfish thing of wanting to learn and cut my teeth in production. And I love the people I work with. I find it so much fun doing pre-production work with all the little teams and finding the right people for the job. It’s great and feels so brilliantly creative.

Is it true that you and your husband Laurence Fox didn’t discuss Belle to start with?
We do discuss it because I get really upset when people miss what it is and just write it off as being a silly, fluffy, light comedy, when it’s actually really dark. That makes me upset. So he has to talk me through all of that, and that’s when we talk about it mostly. He watched loads of it last year, but we don’t really sit down and watch things together. It’s certainly not a subject we can’t talk about.

Does the idea of working together appeal to you?
Yes, we want to, but I’m not sure if that would be acting together. He wants to do some directing, so maybe I could act in something he directs. That could be good — or it could be really bad [laughs]!

New SD Website Open!

You can now visit the new Secret Diary of a Call Girl website to see the newest trailer and a preview of the upcoming series! Missed an episode? You can use the ITVPlayer to watch the latest shows!
Visit it here

The Raven

Series Four Preview

Belle is living the London dream. She resides in the most desirable post code, she frequents the best restaurants, she shops in the funkiest boutiques, she hangs-out in ‘undiscovered’ bars and cafes and her preferred mode of transport? – the incomparable black cab. Belle is glamorous, intelligent and witty, but there is one thing that sets Belle apart from other successful career women her age… Belle is a high class escort.
In Season 4, Belle takes on a new relationship with best friend Ben and the new role of managing Stephanie’s escort business. The stakes have never been higher for Belle – accepting Ben’s offer of a lasting relationship means that Belle has a real chance of happiness; but Ben is her one true friend and if she messes up, she’ll lose him forever. And with Stephanie in prison for her dodgy finances, Belle finds herself being an – albeit reluctant – Madam, whilst also becoming the unlikely guardian of Stephanie’s innocent 19 year old daughter, Poppy.
As Belle starts to manage other girls – including the unmanageable Dominatrix, Charlotte – she still finds time for some new, unmissable clients – The Virgin, The Adult Baby, The Wrestling Fetishist and, don’t miss, Count Dracula himself…. But as Belle exceeds in her professional life, her personal life starts to fall apart …
A series of misunderstandings with loyal, loving Ben, the unravelling and corruption of ‘good girl’ Poppy, and the introduction of dangerous and alluring vice cop Harry, all force Belle to question who she really is and what she wants her future to be.
Will she give up ‘Belle’ for Ben and commit to being just ‘Hannah’ or will she cut all ties and throw herself into the world of prostitution forever?

You can catch the new series on ITV2 on February 1st! Don't miss it!

V Festival

You can see images of Billie at this years V Festival here - thanks to BilliePiperFan.com. We love her combo of shorts and high boots, she looked amazing!

SD Shooting and Update!

Billie has once again been shooting Secret Diary this week! Here is one image and the rest can be found here - thanks to Billiepiperfan.com!
The new series will be shown on ITV2 next year!
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You may have noticed that there havent been that many posts on CBB lately, whilst there hasnt been much happening with Billie anyway we have been very busy however we're back and ready to update you with all the latest Billie goss!

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!”

Secret Diary Series Four?

According to The Daily Star, Billie has agreed to come back as Belle in the 4th series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl:
Telly bosses have stumped up £2million to get Billie Piper to make a fourth series of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl.
The babe has agreed to slip back into saucy outfits and killer heels to play infamous hooker Belle De Jour. Chiefs at ITV were desperate to make another series with producers Tiger Aspect.
Filming for the new eight-part series will kick off later this year, with TV chiefs aiming to screen the first episode on ITV2 on January 27 next year.
The fourth series will see Belle continue to juggle her life as a best-selling author with her secret sex antics in London.
Her adventures have given Billie, 27, one of her biggest TV roles.
The former Doctor Who star says she enjoys playing a “predatory” woman in the show.
She said: “Without getting too serious about it, it’s funny. Inevitably, sex for money is awkward. It’s not some seamless, physical act. The men are really nervous, they end up saying random things. Some are virgins and can’t get laid so they have to pay for it.”
Billie reckons it is one of the best TV roles ever. She added: “It’s so rare that you get to play such a predatory, confident woman.”

Billie wins UK TV Actress of the Year!

Billie and Laurence attended this years Glamour Women Of The Year Awards, she looked beautiful in a floor length black dress and up hair-do, and to top it off, she won UK TV Actress of the Year, which we all know she totally deserved!
Glad to see Glamour readers love her as much as we do!

Billie nominated for TV Choice Awards

Billie and Secret Diary of a Call Girl are nominated for the ‘Best Actress’ and ‘Best Drama Series’, respectively, at this year’s TV Choice Awards! Be sure to go VOTE!

A Passionate Woman Fails to Spark

With a title like A Passionate Woman (BBC1) and with Billie Piper, fresh from Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, in the title role, it seemed fair to expect the screen to steam up with some good old-fashioned post-war rumpy pumpy. But something about this doomed period romance failed to spark. It wasn’t Piper’s fault. She was the picture of let-me-at-’im libido the minute her dowdy Betty clapped eyes on hunky charmer Craze at the local dancehall.
We were in grim-up-North 1950s Leeds, a land of freezing flats,frustrated marriages and small-minded anti-Semitism.
So it was no wonder the rather too perfectly formed Craze (Theo James, with gym-buff body and perfect teeth – not really a 1950s look) caused something of a stir.
To the endlessly repeated refrain of old Johnny Mathis ditty A Certain Smile, Betty and Craze embarked on an affair we knew was ill-fated from the outset, given that he copped a bullet in the opening credits and the whole thing was told in flashback.
Blocking their route to happiness was the fact they were both trapped in entirely implausible marriages to people they didn’t like, let alone love.
Read the rest of the review here

A Passionate Woman - BBC1 9.00

Don't forget you can catch Billie in A Passionate Woman on BBC1 tonight at 9.00pm! Don't miss it!

Embarrassing Pop Career

Billie Piper has confessed that she is embarrassed about her music career.
Piper landed her first number one with ‘Because We Want To’ when she was 15 but revealed that she now refuses to let people listen to her records.
“I don’t play my songs to anyone,” the Daily Star quotes her as saying. “It’s one of those things I lock in a box.”
Piper also ruled out working on more music in the future.
“There’s not enough money in the world to get me singing again,” she admitted. “I would be happy to turn down a million.”

Press Pack Interview

From hooker to housewife, Billie Piper’s latest role finds her as a 1950s newlywed trapped in a loveless relationship in A Passionate Woman, screening on BBC One on Sunday, April 11 at 9pm…

Tell us about A Passionate Woman, your new TV role…
“I play Betty, a young woman. She’s a very poor woman and she’s first-time married, and a mother. She is very much a woman of the time – very ordered, proper, buttoned up. She’s close with her husband but it’s a very old-fashioned relationship – he’s at work all day, he doesn’t talk to her, doesn’t ask her how she’s doing. She is completely bowled over by this polish neighbour, Craze, who moves in. They fall in love and begin this obsessive, passionate affair.”

A true story?
“It’s written by Kay Mellor [Fat Friends] and loosely based on an affair her own mother had in the 1950s, which she never confessed to until the 1980s. The second episode of the story jumps forward to the 80s, where Betty is played by Sue Johnston.”

Did you meet Sue to talk about your character?
“Briefly, we lived next to each other while our parts of the shoot overlapped. She’s lovely, smart and a really savvy actress. I was thrilled to be playing the younger version of her.”

Betty is a far cry from your other role – Belle in Secret Diary of a Call Girl…
“Yes! That’s why I wanted to do it. I get offered a lot of naked roles – feisty nurses, women dressed only in their bras! That’s it for me for now! That’s my life! But I want to different parts, and this is radically different.”

Did you relate to Betty as a young mother yourself?
“Yes. I’ve just had my first son Winston and I’m newly married [to Lewis actor, Laurence Fox], so I could completely relate to Betty. But nowadays we have opportunities to go out and work and socialise and we’re constantly banging on about how we feel. Back then it was a taboo.”

What’s coming up for you? There are lots of rumours that you’re off to America?
“I’m going out there to sniff around and see what there is. I get sent a lot of scripts from America, but I get so spoiled here with meaty, rounded parts, I don’t get that with American scripts. We’re working on what we’re going to do now but I’d quite like to stay at home and be with my son for a bit!”

BBC Breakfast

Billie was on BBC Breakfast yesterday morning talking about A Passionate Woman, the new Doctor Who and more, and looked wonderful!
If you missed it, you can watch it here

Two Years Old

CrazyBoutBillie has now been online and keeping you all updated in the wonderful world of Billie for two years! In that time we have seen her make a comeback to Doctor Who, in series four and again in David Tennant's last episode on New Years Day, we have celebrated the birth of her first child Winston James, and seen her take on many other projects including A Passionate Woman and series three of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. We'd just like to say thank you for everyone that visits this site and hopefully it will keep going for a long while yet!