Billie Worried about Call Girl Taunts

The 27-year-old played high-class hooker Belle de Jour in Secret Diary Of A Call Girl.
Piper, who has a 15-month-old boy called Winston with her husband Laurence Fox, said motherhood had changed her attitude towards her work.
The former Doctor Who star said she was not sure that acting leads to a “wholesome family life”.
Piper started filming the ITV2 show in 2007 and a third series is about to air.
The actress told Radio Times: “I feel like there were the carefree, reckless years when all I had was a boyfriend and I wasn’t the face of a family.
“Now I’m a mum, and this time round there were definitely more moments when I questioned what I was doing, whereas before I didn’t really give a ****, it was just a role.”
“But now I had to go home and feed my son, and it’s a radical shift in your brain from being this provocative, man-eating person by day to this new mum at night.
“I’m all too aware that, one day, he’s probably going to be teased about it, tormented even. So there were these moments of: ‘Oh my God, what am I doing?”‘
Piper said she might one day prefer a future outside acting.
“I think that if I was to have more children and holding a family together, I would need to think about branching out into other areas, maybe producing or writing,” she said.
She also revealed her husband was “surprisingly relaxed” about her filming steamy scenes.
“It’s very different from who I am normally, that’s the thing. I don’t wear minuscule outfits. I’m a real cover-up tomboy,” she said.
“He knows that and he’s grown-up enough not to marry those two worlds and get confused by them.
“And it would be such crap to play a prostitute without getting your kit off, wouldn’t it?”

The Return of Belle

The Secret Diary of a Call Girl star talks sex scenes, motherhood and the new Doctor Who.

What’s in store in the new series of Secret Diary..?

“It’s quite radical. Belle’s now an author, and her editor Duncan, played by James D’Arcy, wants her to find more outrageous clients to fuel her writing. I couldn’t do sex scenes for the second series because I was pregnant, so I suppose I’m paying for it this time around.”

Is there any romance on the horizon?

“Her relationship with Duncan is weird and complex. He doesn’t judge her, he encourages her, and she finds that confusing. Apart from her friend Ben, he’s the only guy Belle can confide in.”

How did you feel about the real Belle, Brooke Magnanti, losing her anonymity last year?

“It must have been liberating to unburden herself of that secret, but also frightening because now people will recognise her as this woman who had sex with loads of men. It’s nice for me to share the load with someone though, because I feel I have become the face for prostitution.”

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'My New Sex Scenes are so Naughty. I love it!'

The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl star, 27, on the new series of the show, how she’s loving being a mum, and losing that baby weight (amazingly quickly)…
Billie Piper has come a long way since those all-day benders with ex-hubby Chris Evans. Arriving for our interview today at London’s trendy Covent Garden Hotel, she is in high spirits and boasting that trademark wide-mouthed smile. She insists on playing hostess and pours drinks as we settle down on the sofa for a candid chat.
The mum – to 15-month-old Winston – looks incredible, dressed in a black figure-hugging jumper dress, leggings and high-heeled boots which show off the tiny pre-baby frame she regained in just six weeks.
There’s no denying Billie seems to have found what she was looking for on her rocky journey from wild child to wife and mother. She freely admits to a life lived in the fast lane. From finding fame as a teenage pop star, marrying Chris Evans (she was 19, he was 35), divorcing him, moving from pop music to acting after landing a role in Doctor Who, dating a man who loved ‘tantric sex’ then finding love with a fellow actor, Billie’s choice of career and men has sometimes courted controversy. Read more here

Billie: I'm A Selfish Person

Billie Piper suddenly walks into the office. The room is instantly the last word in glamour. The actress is dressed in full-on Belle de Jour mode for the latest series of her ITV2 drama series, Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Done up in her costume – a dazzling blue satin dress, vertiginous heels, high-class jewellery and war-paint make-up – she looks like she has already won Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
And yet, despite being dressed to kill, the actress is very far from intimidating. Piper radiates warmth and wit – that, surely, is why at the age of just 27 she is one of our most in-demand actresses. Both men and women are drawn to that rare combination of attractiveness and accessibility. She is grounded girl next door and gorgeous sex symbol rolled into one.

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Billie and Belle

As Billie Piper prepared for the launch of the third series of ITV’s Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, she was presented with an offer she couldn’t refuse… a chance to meet the real-life Belle Du Jour.
Dr Brooke Magnati, 34, is the high-class escort whose blog became the bestselling book on which the show is based.
As a forerunner to the series, the girls were brought together for a TV show entitled Billie And The Real Belle Bare All, with Billie, 27, cast in the role of interviewer.

Face to face: Belle de Jour Brooke Magnati and Billie Piper have a chat in ITV2 documentary Billie And The Real Belle Bare All!

Billie Piper: When did you decide to write a blog?
Belle de Jour: I had a funny experience and I thought, well, I’ll write about it and if anyone else wants to read it they might find it funny too. There are some people who do this job who are racked with guilt about what they’re doing. I’d say get out of it. No amount of money in the world is worth feeling that you’ve betrayed yourself. I didn’t feel that way.
The more I did it, the more I came to enjoy being good at it. It’s like that in a lot of jobs. You must feel, when you’ve absolutely nailed a scene, “That was great! I’ve done it.”

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Billie And Belle Bare All

Billie Piper meets the real Belle de Jour, Dr Brooke Magnanti in a new documentary for ITV2! In her first full length television interview Brooke discusses her reason for becoming a call girl, her clients` bizarre requests and her motivation to reveal her identity after six years of anonymity. The show also gives viewers a chance to see footage from the forthcoming third series of the ITV2 drama inspired by her story.
Billie and the Real Belle Bare All will air on ITV2 on Monday 25th January at 10pm so make sure you tune in!

BBC Drama Promo Video

BBC has released a trailer promoting it’s drama lineup for Spring 2010. ‘A Passionate Woman’ is featured as one of the offerings which stars Billie Piper!