Billie Piper

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

"The rubber dress for the dominatrix stuff looked great but it was a real b**** to wear. We were working under hot studio lights and there’s me wearing a tight rubber dress, long sleeves, tights, plus I had a leather corset and big old hair.

"I’m not good in heat, it makes me a bit angry."

And Billie revealed she had to cover herself in talcum powder to squeeze into the outfit.

"You end up stinking because you sweat so much. But once you’ve done corsets for period drama you can handle anything."

Billie Treated At Eye Hospital - Aug 10 2007
Billie Piper has been treated in hospital following a sudden bout of impaired vision, ITV has confirmed.

The brunette actress awoke yesterday morning (August 9) unable to open her eyes normally and was seen as an outpatient at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

She was discharged shortly after tests. Doctors said the symptoms were not permanent.

A spokeswoman for ITV, where Billie has just finished filming Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, said: "The doctor told her to rest for a few days and avoid the light.

"We don’t know what the cause was, but she is okay and will be resting over the weekend."

Billie, 24, began her career as a pop singer in her teens with the hit track Because We Want To, but is now best known for playing Rose Tyler in hit sci-fi series Doctor Who, a role she enjoyed from 2005 to 2006.

Billie and Chris to sell off cars - June 13 2007
Billie Piper and Chris Evans are auctioning off their luxury cars.

The newly divorced pair are each selling a motor at the annual Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed sale on June 22.

Radio star Chris is getting rid of his black 1964 Daimler V8 Vicarage Convertible, which cost him £135,000 and is expected to fetch up to £70,000.

Billie has also decided to part with one of her cars, a white 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe.

Chris gave her the Porsche three years ago and she has driven it regularly since.

It is expected to fetch up to £17,000.

The DJ famously wooed the pop star turned actress by giving her a Ferrari filled with roses the day after they first met. She was 18 at the time and had not yet learned to drive.

Billie, now 24, and Chris, who is 16 years her senior, were granted a "quickie" divorce last month but remain the best of friends.

The couple married in Las Vegas in May 2001 and separated in October 2004.

Radio 2 presenter Chris is now dating golfer Natasha Shishmanian, while ex-Doctor Who star Billie has found love with fellow actor Laurence Fox.

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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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October 2007