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Billie Piper

Profession: Actress
Place/Date of Birth: Swindon, England, 22 September 2020
Associated with: Chris Evans

But the Daily Mail has reported that Billie has told friends to keep December 31 clear.

"The cat’s out of the bag," a source reportedly said. "Billie had to announce the date because her friends were making plans for New Year’s Eve."

It wouldn’t be Billie’s first wedding - the former Doctor Who star, who shot to fame as a pop star when she was a teenager, married DJ Chris Evans in Las Vegas when she was just 18.

The pair are now divorced but remain close, and Chris and his new wife Natasha Shishmanian are reportedly going to be guests at the wedding.

"Billie wants Chris there and Laurence is fine with that," the source said. "She wants it to be the mother of all parties, so she’s having it on New Year’s Eve."

Raunchy drama boosts ITV2’s ratings - Sept 29 2007
Billie Piper’s new drama, The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, gave ITV2 some of its most successful viewing figures on Thursday night.

The debut of the raunchy drama, attracted an average of 1.8 million viewers and an 11% audience share.

More viewers tuned in to the drama than to programmes showing at the same time on BBC2, Channel 4 and Five, giving ITV2 one its biggest audiences since its 1998 launch.

The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl is based on the online diary, written under the pseudonym Belle de Jour, and is ITV2’s first original commission.

Piper plays Hannah, who has a secret double life as a high-class prostitute.

The drama peaked at 2.1 million viewers and a 12.7% share at 10.05pm.

To date, the highest-rated show on a digital channel was a live Premiership football match between Manchester United and Arsenal on Sky Sports 1 in 2004, with an audience of 2.77 million.

Footballers’ Wives Extra Time holds the record for the most viewers on ITV2, attracting 1.9 million in May 2005.

Belle is cool, says Billie - Sept 19 2007
Billie Piper is one of the few people who has learnt the secret of who the real Belle Du Jour is - and she insists "she’s cool".

The actress is set to bring the author’s tales of being a high-class hooker to life in new ITV2 drama Secret Diary Of A Call Girl - which is adapted from Belle’s real life blog and two popular books.

"I definitely did meet Belle, and she’s sweet and she’s interesting. She’s very clever as well," Billie says.

"She’s cool, incredibly well read, witty and her writing style is not out of character. When you meet her, it’s definitely her voice. It all feels very real to me.

"I don’t know what it’s like to be a hooker. It’s such a taboo subject, you just hear all these horror stories, so it’s quite hard to get your head around the fact someone has done it out of choice and they actually enjoy it, love sex and love getting paid loads of cash for it."

"That’s quite a hard concept to get your head around initially," she continues, "because you think, ’Well, obviously there must be something quite tragic in your life’, you know? So it was really helpful, meeting her, seeing her. She’s so well turned out, graceful, elegant."

Secret Diary Of A Call Girl starts on September 27 on ITV2.

Billie: I Was Endlessly shocked - Sept 7 2007
Billie Piper thinks viewers will be shocked by her new ITV drama Secret Diary Of A Call Girl.

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Biography

Billie Piper was born September 22 1982 and propelled into stardom at the young age of 15.

Her fame began when she became the youngest female solo artist ever to debut at number one in the UK charts, with the feisty ’Because We Want To’ in the summer of 1998. Three months later she repeated the feat with the follow-up ’Girlfriend’, a slower R&B-tingle tune, which proved that this was one pop baby who could sing. In October 1998, the platinum-selling album ’Honey To The B’ took Billie’s career a step on and silenced the cynics who had said her success was sure to be short lived.

Throughout 1999 she took a step out of the limelight to work on her second album, whilst playing house with Five singer Ritchie Neville. Then in early 2000 Billie made her comeback with the single ’Day & Night’, an up-tempo song that hit the top of the charts.

Accompanying this comeback was a total image overhaul that offered up a far raunchy and overtly sexy individual. However, still in her late teens, the new image created quite a lot of press, and not all of it good, launching the debate as to whether it was suitable for young girls to copy her style.

Billie’s rock’n’roll lifestyle continued at great apace with a stalker, suspected drugs issues and her eventual marriage to, 16 years her senior, Chris Evans. The relationship that followed saw Billie’s demise from the public eye and the couple became more famous for their extreme partying, which as well as costing Chris his job at Virgin, also saw Billie flounder about with seemingly not much to do other than get drunk.

In 2003 she returned to her roots and polished her acting skills in the sunny climes of Los Angeles. On her return to the UK she quickly earned roles in television and film productions, her first being The Canterbury Tales that stunned viewers and changed their perception of her from a young pop princess to that of professional actress.

She later appeared in The Calcium Kid, Spirit Trap, Much Ado About Nothing, The Ruby in the Smoke and Mansfield Park, however it was her character Rose Tyler that awarded her the most acclaim.

In 2004 Billie signed to work on the new series of Doctor Who, as sidekick and companion of the good Doctor. She won Most Popular Actress category 2005 and 2006 for her work on the series, alongside Best Actress at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards 2006 and Breakthrough Award at the Southbank Show Awards 2006, however on June 15, 2006, it was announced by the BBC that she was to depart in the final episode of the second series.

In October 2004 Billie and Chris began a trial separation that was to end in divorce, however the couple remain close friends, living just two houses away in the desirable Belsize Park area on London.

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December 2007