Billie Piper

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

Best of pals - Nov 04
Billie Piper said that she will always be best mates with former hubby Chris Evans. The pair split earlier this year, and Billie told Marie Claire magazine ’We’ve gone our separate ways as husband and wife. But we’re still very much a part of each other’s lives and always will be. "Chris is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could never not have him in my life. First and foremost, he is and will remain my best friend. "Our relationship just ran its natural course. We just wanted to do different things in the end. It’s really that simple. And it is sad. But we’re just getting on with it." Billie is currently filming the new Dr Who series opposite Christopher Eccleston.

Divorce - Oct 04
It’s all over between Chris and Billie after reports of affairs and bust ups. Billie Piper has called time on her marriage to millionaire Chris Evans after months of arguments over his lack of support for her acting career. The ex teen popstar has been working on the new series of Doctor Who while Chris, is seems has been sitting in pubs getting drunk and flirting with Harriet Scott. Although Chris has been begging Billie to reconsider it seems that the honeymoon is well and truly over and that the fledgling actress is finding solace in the arms of ex boyfriend Danny Dyer.

Billie’s on-screen kisses with Orlando - April 04
Billie Piper found herself kissing heart-throb Orlando Bloom on their first day of shooting her new film.

The Brit flick movie is called The Calcium Kid, and Billie stars as Orlando’s love interest in the film, a girl called Angel. She said ’He’s a lovely boy. We did the screen kiss on my first day. I thought my heart was going to come through my chest."

Billie’s use of the word ’boy’ for Orlando is rather odd, as at 27 he is six years older then her, but anyway. Talking to magazine Elle Girl, Billie revealed more of her thoughts and feelings on older hubby Chris Evans "Younger men can be irrational and jealous - older men are more relaxed in themselves. I live in an adult world and I’m used to it now - but I still have teenage tantrums!"

Billie on the Beeb - 02/01/04
Billie Piper has landed a top role in a new gritty BBC drama, following rave reviews of her appearance in The Canterbury Tales.

The 21 year old is to play Bella, a troubled teen who grows up in a care home in the drama that is as yet untitled. The show will be the flagship for a campaign to highlight the problems faced by kids in care, reports The Sun.

Billie will be starring opposite Jane Lapotaire, and it should be screened in February.

Billie’s naked debut - 27/08/03
Billie Piper is set to make her small screen debut by romping naked with James Nesbitt.

In the BBC1 drama ’The Miller’s Tale’, Billie plays a karaoke singer married to an older man - Dennis Waterman. Hmm. Singer married to an older man - ring any bells at all?

James plays a con man that she seduces and has a wild sexy affair with. Billie was not worried about her sexy scenes. She said ’When you’re doing it, you’ve got pieces of tape round your breasts and an ugly tan thong thing on - not sexy at all"

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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