Frost magazine have interviewed Billie about A Passionate Woman. There is also one with Kay Mellor, the writer of A Passionate Woman, about casting Billie and much more.
Click here to read Billie’s interview, and here for Kay Mellor’s.

I would like to apologise for not uploading the scans of the Hello magazine article. The reason for this is that there are many other articles that I will be uploading with it; several other magazines and I’m also going to upload scans of the ‘Reasons to be Pretty’ programme so that anyone that didn’t get to the theatre can have a look at it. Sorry about the delay!

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Don’t forget to enter our competition to win A Passionate Woman on DVD! Click here for details of how to enter!

Just before Christmas The Guardian launched an iPhone and Kindle book entitled ‘Who’s Who? The resurrection of the Doctor’. I haven’t yet read it but I’ve bought it, and it features the history and revival of Doctor Who and of course entails lots about Billie Piper and her character Rose. Here is an excerpt from The Guardian launch review. You can read a few pages and preview it on the Kindle purchase page, click on the below link to view it.

But articles and features about the people behind the show have proved just as compelling. The book contains lengthy interviews with Eccleston, Tennant and Matt Smith, as well as Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat. John Barrowman’s thoughts on being a role model for his sexuality, or Billie Piper’s on the misery of her pop career provide an insight into their personalities and they way they had played their roles.

Click here to read more of the review on The Guardian’s website.
Click here to view or purchase the Kindle version of the ebook.
Click here to view or purchase the iPhone iBooks version of the ebook.

David Walliams is a busy man. Not only is he flying around the UK to judge talent as the new Britain’s Got Talent judge, he is also working on several projects and doesn’t get a lot of free time…..

He is also working on a new BBC1 detective drama about a male/female detective duo which he has written and will play the lead. Reports suggest that he hopes to cast Karen Gillan or Billie Piper as the female lead.

Just a rumour. Probably untrue….but you never know.

Source

There’s a page about Billie’s pregnancy in this week’s Hello! Magazine. When I get a copy I’ll add it to the gallery, otherwise get your copy out now in shops!

As you all requested, here are the pictures of the fan book. I decided to do it like this rather than a book so it’s more of a parcel thing. Hope you all approve, she seemed really chuffed with it!

I would like to take this time to congratulate Billie on a fantastic run of performances as Carly in Reasons to be Pretty at the Almeida Theatre. Having seen the production twice; absolutely everyone deserves a round of applause; Billie Piper, Kieran Bew, Siân Brooke and Tom Burke all gave stella performances. The staging, venue (Almeida Theatre), lighting, sound, directing, everything was absolutely fantastic. Everyone involved did an amazing job, congratulations and let’s hope something similar is brought up in the future!

Status about purchasing tickets from Almeida’s facebook;

Reasons To Be Pretty closes this Saturday – if you haven’t seen it already and you haven’t booked a ticket, remember you can book Day Seats in person from 11am!

So if you live in the London area and want to see Billie, might be worth a try!

Further congratulations to Billie and Laurence who are now expecting a baby boy!
Click here to read more.

Reasons To Be Pretty is the final part of Neil LaBute’s trilogy of plays that explore our perception of beauty and image interplaying the relationships between men and women. It’s been said that it’s the more humane play out of the trilogy. We have a Talkback during each run of a production at the Almeida where the audience can discuss the production with the cast. Here we have some highlights from the Reasons To Be Pretty Talkback. 

What is it that Carly’s attracted to in Kent?

Billie Piper (Carly): I think its one of those things that on paper makes perfect sense, he’s like a prize boyfriend. Where they’re from, things like that really matter. They’re two good looking people and you know I think that he is quite different with Carly to how he is amongst his friends,  I’m not sure she really knows who he actually is. I think its quite fake, their relationship.

Was it difficult learning the accent?

Billie Piper: TheMidwest, that’s all we really knew…

Read what the rest of the cast had to say over at:

http://almeidatheatre.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/reasons-to-be-pretty-talkback/

I’ve been thinking and talking to some fans and I decided that it would be a really nice idea to make a book with loads of messages for Billie. I’m meeting her on the 14th of January so I can give it to her then, I’m sure she would love it. Obviously I’ll need quite a few messages so if I don’t get enough it’ll look a bit rubbish but I’ll still give it to her. If you want to submit anything then either leave a comment below or email contact@billiepiperfan.com
You can submit messages, pictures, photos, anything you want. If you want to add something physical, hand made things or something then email me and I’ll sort out an address for you to post it to. Be aware that these need to be in as soon as possible! If you don’t want your name to be included then please say, or if you want a different name then please put one, otherwise I’ll use the name that comes with the comment/email. And let me know if you have any particular image you want to go with it. I’m paying for it to be professionally printed and created so I need lots of messages to put in!

I was also thinking about the front cover being loads of pictures of her with you guys, so if you email me pictures of you together then I can put it on the cover!

Thanks guys!

The first picture from Love Life has surfaced!
Click here to view the picture!

Q&A: BILLIE PIPER

When were you happiest?
My son’s second birthday. It was a typical autumn day – bright sky, cold fingers. He was dressed as a skeleton and we ate chilli in the garden.

What is your earliest memory?
Eating chips on the way home from playschool, looking forward to an episode of Puddle Lane, age three.

Which living person do you most admire, and why?
My mother. She raised four children pretty much on her own. My father was around, but always out at work.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My obsession with time.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
People who point when they talk.

What is your most treasured possession?
My old love letters and pen pal correspondence.

What would your super power be?
Perfect grace.

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There’s a Billie interview in tomorrows ‘Guardian’ newspaper. If anyone could get scans it would be highly appreciated.

Keep a look out for it.

Daily Mail’s reported about Billie already filming the pilot for ‘Tom and Jenny’ and is soon to start filming ‘Truth about Lies’  in December?

After Billie gave birth to her first child Winston in 2008, she took a career hiatus to look after the latest addition to the family.She dabbled with a comeback in 2010 with a role in BBC One’s A Passionate Woman, before retreating back to family life again.

But despite expecting her second child in April 2012, Billie is back in the showbiz world with force.

Not only can she be seen on stage, she has also filmed a pilot episode for BBC Three’s Tom & Jenny, and has been reunited with Doctor Who actor David Tennant for television series Love Life, also for the Beeb.

An impressive host of British names join the star-studded cast, with Jane Horrocks, Ashley Walters, David Morrissey, former EastEnder Lacey Turner and Skins teenager Kaya Scodelario taking part.

Piper has also signed up for feature film Truth About Lies, alongside British actress Ruth Wilson, which will begin shooting this winter.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2062566/Bille-Piper-looks-stunning-despite-unflattering-costume.html

Thoughts? Hopefully more Billie news soon, please note, these aren’t official, its just a rumour about the filming.

* * * * “Tom Burke [gives a] delightfully wry, wisecracking performance as Greg…Billie Piper’s mixture of courage and grief in the role is deeply moving and it is wonderful to see the old bruiser LaBute writing with such tender humanity.”

Charles Spencer, The Telegraph, 18 November 2011

* * * * “Fiercely funny and incisively acted production…Kent, a serenely smug and obnoxiously sexist meathead [is] hilariously played by Kieran Bew…Billie Piper’s excellent Carly adroitly crumbles into a mass of tearful anxiety and suspicion”
Paul Taylor, The Independent, 18 November 2011

* * * * “Siân Brooke’s Steph is raw and impassioned. Kieran Bew does a superb job of evoking Kent’s particular brand of mundane villainy…And Burke is dry, wry and reflective, making Greg likeable in a beautifully unshowy fashion… this is smart, funny and humane, as well as skilfully acted.”
Henry Hitchings, The Evening Standard, 18 November 2011

* * * * “In Michael Attenborough’s brilliantly acted, beautifully designed production it’s a funny, moving piece – not least because of LaBute’s unerring gift for crackling dialogue and his memorable central character.”
Simon Edge, Daily Express, 18 November 2011

* * * * “Reasons To Be Pretty is at once another darkly comic excavation of the battle of the sexes which also charts a stark, highly moralistic male learning curve. It is sharp-shooting, eminently entertaining and often painful to watch.”
Carole Waddis, The Arts Desk, 18 November 2011

Source: http://www.almeida.co.uk/event/reasons/press

There are links to the full reviews at the source. Seems like the play is getting great publicity and reviews!

Neil LaBute is haunted by the American obsession with physical beauty.The Shape of Things showed a shambolic geek getting a ruinous makeover. Fat Pig attacked the idea that we all have to conform to a perfect shape. And now LaBute shows how a chance remark about a lover’s features can destroy a relationship. The result is a rueful, intelligent comedy that suggests we should all stop defining ourselves, and each other, by our outward appearances.

LaBute starts with the noisiest domestic quarrel I’ve heard for some time. Steph walks out on her long-time lover, Greg, after his reported remark that her face, in comparison with that of another woman, is just “regular”. Greg, who works the graveyard shift in a factory, is puzzled by Steph’s rage and irked by the fact that his casual remark was passed on by a work colleague, Carly, who is the wife of his best friend, Kent. But, in the course of a complex series of confrontations, Greg discovers that every one is hooked on appearances. Carly, a pregnant security guard, is worried that she may be losing the affections of Kent, who is besotted by an apparent stunner working in another part of the factory. Isn’t there more to life, LaBute implicitly asks, than simply how one looks?

Sometimes LaBute puts symmetrical patterns and point-scoring above plausibility. Steph’s initial rage gets the play going but seems wildly disproportionate. You also wonder how Greg, who rather ostentatiously reads Poe, Hawthorne and Swift on the night-shift, has managed to stay friends with a philistine bully like Kent. And, although LaBute is clearly putting in a plea for the average-looking, morally decent guy like Greg, you feel he does this only by making all the other characters appear, at various times, contemptible.

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For those who were following an account claiming to be Billie, we’d like to report that it’s a fake! Both Laurence and Gemma Chan have confirmed that @misspiedpiper is indeed a fraud.

has insisted that there is nothing provocative about her role in Love Life.

The Wuthering Heights star will play Karen, the love interest of teacher Holly (Billie Piper) in the semi-improvised BBC serial.

“[Each episode is] half an hour long, for five nights on the BBC,” the actress told Digital Spy. “It’s [about] different situations of love [and] that’s why I wanted to do it.”

She continued: “It’s very hard to get two female actors, put them together in a… relationship and not make it about sex.

“[This story] was more about the connection that they share as women [and] the points that they’re at in their lives.”

Scodelario also admitted that she had been a fan of Billie Piper’s music as a child.

“The first album that I ever bought was hers,” she revealed. “But I didn’t tell her that, because I thought it might put her off a little bit!”

From: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a350031/kaya-scodelario-billie-piper-lesbian-scenes-in-love-life-not-sexual.html

Video of Kaya at the source.

Pop star-turned-actress Billie Piper has only patched up her distant relationship with her parents since becoming a mother, because they were “redundant” when she shot to fame as a teenager.

The Brit became a chart sensation in the U.K. when she was just 15 and landed her first solo number one single in 1998. She moved into her own apartment and travelled the world as she released two hit albums.

Piper then abandoned her pop career and enjoyed a short-lived, booze-fuelled marriage to U.K. TV star Chris Evans, which her parents found out about on a radio show.

And she reveals she only recently became close to her mum and dad again after putting her wild days behind her and welcoming a son in 2009 – admitting she felt she didn’t need them when she was riding her first wave of success.

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TV beauty Billie Piper has revealed she thinks she has a “frightening” face.

Billie – expecting her second child – said: “I have always felt clumsy and awkward and self-conscious.

“I’ve got these enormous features, and as a childthey were the last thing I wanted. I have always thought of myself as frightening-looking.”

Billie, 29, who has three-year-old son Winston with actor hubby Laurence Fox, 33, is now preparing to face her demons – in a play about appearance.

Reasons To Be Pretty opens in London’s West End on Thursday.

The former Doctor Who assistant said: “I’m trying to get to a place where I can believe that I am really ­attractive. It’s a big leap of the imagination.”

 

http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2011/11/06/billie-piper-s-frightening-face-102039-23541034