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On 15 January 2007, [[BBC Radio 1]] DJ [[Chris Moyles]] started a campaign to get "[[Honey to the Bee]]" back into the Top 100 on download sales as a way of testing out new chart rules that favour download sales.<ref name="adverchart">{{cite web|url=http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindonnewsheadlines/display.var.1128777.0.billie_in_the_charts_again.php|title=Billie in the charts again|date=2007-01-17|accessdate=2007-01-17|publisher=[[Swindon Advertiser]]|first=Stephanie|last=Tye}}</ref> The campaign was highly successful, with "Honey to the Bee" re-entering the official UK singles chart at no. 17, eight years after it was first released.
On 15 January 2007, [[BBC Radio 1]] DJ [[Chris Moyles]] started a campaign to get "[[Honey to the Bee]]" back into the Top 100 on download sales as a way of testing out new chart rules that favour download sales.<ref name="adverchart">{{cite web|url=http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/swindonnewsheadlines/display.var.1128777.0.billie_in_the_charts_again.php|title=Billie in the charts again|date=2007-01-17|accessdate=2007-01-17|publisher=[[Swindon Advertiser]]|first=Stephanie|last=Tye}}</ref> The campaign was highly successful, with "Honey to the Bee" re-entering the official UK singles chart at no. 17, eight years after it was first released.

====June 2010 Campaign====
In April a campaign was started to get Billie Piper's third single, Honey To The Bee, back in to the charts. You can join the facebook group [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106340212721131 here]. The group has over 400 members and has had a lot of support including DJ Chris Moyles. The result is yet to be announced.


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Billie Piper
Piper in October 2006, at a book signing for Growing Pains.
Born
Lianne Piper
OccupationActress/Singer
Years active1998–present
Spouse(s)Chris Evans (2001–2007) (divorced)
Laurence Fox (2007–present)

Billie Paul Piper (born Lianne Piper,[1] 22 September 1982, in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English singer and actress.

She began her career in the late 1990s as a pop singer and then progressed to acting. Her most famous role is as Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2006, a role she reprised in 2008 and 2010.[2] In 2007, Broadcast magazine listed Piper at no. 6 in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, the top woman on the list.[3][4] Since 2007 she has starred as the high flying escort Belle de Jour in the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, based on the real life experiences of Dr Brooke Magnanti.

Career

1998–2003: Honey To The B and Walk of Life

Piper's first break in the entertainment world came as a teenager, when she was selected to appear on the Saturday morning children's television show Scratchy and Co. Piper later landed a role in a television commercial promoting the pop magazine Smash Hits. Piper was offered a record deal at the age of fifteen, and in 1998 became the youngest artist ever to debut at number one in the UK singles chart with "Because We Want To", released under the stage mononym "Billie". Her follow-up single "Girlfriend" also debuted at number one and her first album, Honey to the B (released immediately afterwards) debuted at Number 14 in the UK album charts.

At the 1998 Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, she was nominated for Best New Act (She came 2nd. It was won by B*Witched) and won Princess of Pop (Additionally she was the first to win this award as 1998 was the first year to host this award). She then released "She Wants You" as the third single from the album. The song reached no. 3. Piper then released her album in the U.S. However as Britney Spears's album, ...Baby One More Time had only been released one month earlier, the album almost went completely unnoticed, peaking at no. 17 on the Heatseekers. "Honey to the Bee" was released as the fourth single from the album, like the previous single, it reached no. 3. At the same date, "She Wants You" was released in the USA. It reached no. 9 on the "Hot Club Dance Play" chart.

In 1999, Piper was nominated for two BRIT Awards and won 2 awards at the 1999 Smash Hits Poll Winners' party, although at the latter ceremony she was reduced to tears after being booed by fans of Ritchie Neville, member of boy band Five, whom she was dating at the time.

Piper then started to tour and release in Asia. The singles and the album were released during mid to late 1999. The Taiwanese edition was notable as it had a completely different cover for unknown reasons. On the 10th of August that same year, the follow up to "Because We Want To" was released in Japan, a single comprising "Girlfriend" " and "She Wants You" combined. Her debut album was released in Japan on 25 April 2000.

During that time, she recorded her second album. She decided to release further records under her full name, Billie Piper. She returned to the Singles Chart in May 2000 with a new, sexier sound. She hit the Number 1 spot with "Day & Night". She waited until the following September to release "Something Deep Inside", which reached no. 4, but her success wasn't to continue. In October 2000, Piper released her second album, Walk of Life, which reached Number 14 in the UK Album Chart. The song "Walk of Life", the final single off this album, was released in December 2000 and reached Number 25 in the UK Singles Chart.

On 17 February 2001, Piper appeared in court to testify against a woman named Juliet Peters. Peters was charged with, and eventually convicted of, stalking as well as making a number of threats against Piper and members of her family. Peters received psychiatric treatment as part of her sentence. According to her autobiography, Piper was reluctant about the court case, but was pushed by her parents and her label. She also stated in the book that this was why "The Tide Is High" wasn't released as a single, writing "The court case succeeded in doing what I alone could not: cutting the ties. Without it I might have been tempted back. To quote a line from the epic Sopranos: 'Just when you think you've got out... they drag you back in.'" (The line actually originated in Godfather III (1990)).[5]

On 15 January 2007, BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles started a campaign to get "Honey to the Bee" back into the Top 100 on download sales as a way of testing out new chart rules that favour download sales.[6] The campaign was highly successful, with "Honey to the Bee" re-entering the official UK singles chart at no. 17, eight years after it was first released.

June 2010 Campaign

In April a campaign was started to get Billie Piper's third single, Honey To The Bee, back in to the charts. You can join the facebook group here. The group has over 400 members and has had a lot of support including DJ Chris Moyles. The result is yet to be announced.

Notes

  • Despite having limited success outside the UK, all of Billie Piper's singles reached the top ten in New Zealand except for "Something Deep Inside" which peaked at no. 19 and "Walk of Life" which failed to chart in the top 40. Also, while Piper's debut album reached no. 14 in the UK it reached no. 3 in New Zealand. Piper's 2nd album reached no. 18 in New Zealand.
  • Piper preferred lip syncing during performances. She backs this up with the reason that she is afraid she would not be able to sing live. However, in 1999 she decided to try actually singing during her tour in America. The audience loved it[citation needed], but Piper said it was too nerve-racking to do in Britain, where her much larger fan base lives.
  • She recorded a song for Pokémon: The First Movie titled "Makin' My Way (Any Way That I Can)".[7]

2003–present: acting career

After an extended break, Piper decided to end her pop career in 2003 and return to her original ambition, acting. She took acting lessons while living in London. Piper gained very positive reviews for these appearances, critics seemingly feeling that she was a far better actress than she was a singer.

In 2004 , Piper appeared in the films The Calcium Kid, as the romantic interest of Orlando Bloom's character, and Things to do Before You're Thirty. Shortly before starting work on Doctor Who, she filmed a starring role in the horror movie Spirit Trap alongside Russian pop star Alsou, released in August, 2005 to generally poor reviews.

Doctor Who originally ran from 1963 to 1989. In May 2004, it was announced that the series would be resurrected beginning in 2005, and that Piper was to play the character Rose Tyler, a travelling companion to The Doctor, (to be played by Christopher Eccleston). Piper won the Most Popular Actress category at the 2005 and 2006 National Television Awards for her work on Doctor Who.[8] BBC News named Piper as one of its "Faces of the Year" for 2005, primarily due to her success in Doctor Who. At The South Bank Show Awards on 27 January 2006 Piper was awarded The Times Breakthrough Award for her successful transition from singing to acting. In March 2006, the Television and Radio Industries Club named Piper as best new TV talent at their annual awards ceremony. In September 2006, Piper was named Best Actress at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards.[9]

In November 2005, Piper starred as Hero in a BBC adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, updated for the modern day in a similar manner to the Canterbury Tales series in which she featured, with Hero now being a weather presenter in a television station.

After the completion of the very successful first series of the revamped Doctor Who, the British media regularly released conflicting reports about how long Piper would be staying with the programme. In March 2006, she claimed that she would continue on Doctor Who into its third season in 2007.[10] On 10 May 2006, however, she was reported to be considering quitting the series, although she did express an interest in playing a female version of the Doctor in the future (possibly related to a proposed Doctor Who spin-off series about Rose which was later dropped).[11] On 15 June 2006, the BBC announced that she was to depart in the final episode of the second series, "Doomsday".[12] Piper's decision to leave had been taken a year previously, but remained a secret until news of her departure became public.[13]

Piper has completed work on two stand-alone television productions. In the first, a BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's historical novel The Ruby in the Smoke broadcast in December 2006, Piper played protagonist Sally Lockhart, a Victorian orphan. The BBC plans to film all four of Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels, with Piper continuing in the role in The Shadow in the North which was shown in December 2007. In 2007 she appeared as the main character, Fanny Price, in an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, screened on ITV1.[14] This was her first acting role on television for a broadcaster other than the BBC.

On 27 November 2007, the BBC confirmed that she would reprise her role as Rose Tyler in the fourth Doctor Who series for three episodes. Later, it was confirmed by Russell T Davies in Doctor Who Magazine that this return had been planned since she left. It was also revealed in the "Turn Left" Doctor Who Confidential that Billie had made arrangements to return as Rose since she decided to leave.

The series began in April 2008,[2] and after several cameos, Piper made her official return as Rose in the series four final episodes "Turn Left", "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End". She did not initially state whether she would be reprising the role again. Interviewed on Doctor Who Confidential, she commented that "it's never really the end for the Doctor and Rose", but "it's certainly the end for the foreseeable future".[15] On 16 May 2009, however, it was reported that Piper would reprise her role as Rose Tyler in the last of the 2009–10 Doctor Who specials.[16]

Piper has provided voiceovers for various television commercials, including one for Comfort Fabric Softener airing in June 2007.

Piper also stars as Hannah Baxter/Belle de Jour in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, an ITV2 adaptation of Belle de Jour's The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, a memoir detailing the life of a high-class prostitute. The series, which aired from 27 September 2007, saw Piper in several semi-nude scenes, including one scene featuring her saddling a client and riding him like a horse.[17] As part of her preparation for the role Piper met the real life Belle some two years before her identity as a research scientist was revealed in a Sunday newspaper: "I absolutely had to meet the person behind the words to be able to take the part ... People did ask me about her and I just had to smile, to avoid giving anything away ...".[18] A second series, with Piper in the starring role, started filming in May 2008, during which two body doubles were hired in order to hide Piper's pregnancy during the sex scenes.[19][20] The third series began airing in January 2010, with Piper dispensing with the body doubles, performing all her own sex scenes.[21]

Piper has also shared the role of Betty with Sue Johnston in the TV adaptation of A Passionate Woman, screened on BBC 1 on the 11th and the 18th of April 2010.[22][23]

Theatre

Piper made her stage debut in a touring production of Christopher Hampton's play Treats, which opened in early 2007 in Windsor. Treats was to have ended its tour in the West End, at the Garrick Theatre, starting on 28 February 2007 with previews from 20 February. The play officially finished as of 26 May.[24]

Personal life

Piper was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK, to Paul Piper and Mandy Kent. Piper has one younger brother, Charlie, and two younger sisters, Harley and Ellie.[25]

Piper married businessman, DJ and television presenter Chris Evans in a secret ceremony in May 2001 in Las Vegas after six months of dating. Their marriage attracted much comment due to the sixteen-year age gap between the two.[26] The couple separated in 2004 and later divorced in May 2007.[27] They have remained friends.[28]

A story in The Independent on 27 June 2006 stated that Piper has declared that she does not wish to claim any money from Evans' reported £30m wealth or his £540,000 salary from Radio Two. "I'm not taking a penny from him," she told the Radio Times, "I think that's disgusting." Piper also revealed in her interview with Radio Times that she left her pop star career with very little money.[29] Evans has admitted that the age gap was a reason in seeking the divorce.[30]

Piper dated and lived with law student Amadu Sowe from 2004 to 2006.[28]

Piper married actor Laurence Fox, son of James Fox, on 31 December 2007 at St Mary's Church in Easebourne, West Sussex.[31] They live in their home in Easebourne, Midhurst in West Sussex.[32] Their first child, Winston James Fox, was born by an emergency Caesarean section at 1am on 21 October 2008, following a 26-hour labour.[33][34] In a later interview Piper revealed that medical staff were concerned that Winston would suffer from oxygen starvation if the birth was to continue as planned. Piper said, "they were worried about him losing oxygen to his brain. I was like, 'Cut him out now!'"[34]

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role
1996 Evita uncredited bit-part
1996 The Leading Man uncredited bit-part
2004 The Calcium Kid Angel
2005 Things To Do Before You're 30 Vicky
2005 Spirit Trap Jenny

Television

Television
Year TV series Role
2003 The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale (BBC One) Alison Crosby
2004 Bella and the Boys (BBC Two) Bella
2005–2006, 2008, 2010 Doctor Who (BBC One) Rose Tyler[16]
2005 ShakespeaRe-Told: Much Ado About Nothing (BBC One) Hero
2006 The Ruby in the Smoke (BBC One) Sally Lockhart
2007 Mansfield Park (ITV, 2007) Fanny Price
2007 The Shadow in the North (BBC One, 2007) Sally Lockhart
2007– Secret Diary of a Call Girl (ITV2) Hannah Baxter
2010 A Passionate Woman (BBC One) Betty

Awards and nominations

Awards

  • 1998 – Smash Hits Awards: Princess of Pop
  • 1999 – Smash Hits Awards: Best Female
  • 1999 – Smash Hits Awards: Best Dressed Female
  • 1999 – Smash Hits Awards: Best Female Act
  • 2005 – The National Television Awards: Most Popular Actress
  • 2005 – BBC Face Of The Year
  • 2005 – BBC Drama Awards: Best Actress
  • 2006 – The South Bank Show Awards: The Times Breakthrough Award – Rising British Talent
  • 2006 – TV Choice/TV Quick Awards: Best Actress
  • 2006 – The National Television Awards: Most Popular Actress
  • 2006 – BBC Drama Awards: Best Actress
  • 2006 – Tric Awards: Best New Talent
  • 2006 – GQ Magazine Awards: Woman of the Year
  • 2006 – BBC Drama Awards: Exit of the year

Nominations

Discography

For a comprehensive listing of all Billie Piper releases, see Billie Piper discography.

Albums

Number one singles

Year Single Peak positions
UK[36] IRL[37] Australia[38] SE[39] SW[40] NZ[41]
1998 "Because We Want To" 1 9 19 8 - 9
"Girlfriend" 1 12 35 22 - 2
2000 "Day & Night" 1 13 8 52 62 6

References

  • Cook, Benjamin (4 January 2006). "Billie". Doctor Who Magazine. pp. 13–21.
  • McLean, Craig (5 November 2005). "Why we fell under Piper's spell". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2006-01-03.
  • Piper, Billie (2007). Growing Pains. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 9780340932803
  • "Faces of the year – the women". BBC News. 30 December 2005. Retrieved 2006-01-03.
  • Searchable index of UK chart positions, including Piper's hits
  • List of all #1 songs (including Piper's) from The Official UK Charts Company
  • Chris Evans Saved My Life

Footnotes

  1. ^ Piper, Billie (2007), p.74.
  2. ^ a b "Billie Piper to return to Doctor Who". BBC News Online. 2007-11-27. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
  3. ^ "Hot 100: Talent" (free registration required). Broadcast. 2007-12-18. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
  4. ^ "Ross Tops Tv Talent". Daily Record. 2007-12-21. Archived from the original on January 10, 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-22.
  5. ^ Maslin, Janet (1990-12-25). "Review/Film; The Corleones Try to Go Straight In 'The Godfather Part III'". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-01-27. The actual line is "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in", and was quoted by the character of Silvio Dante in Season 1, episode 2 of The Sopranos
  6. ^ Tye, Stephanie (2007-01-17). "Billie in the charts again". Swindon Advertiser. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
  7. ^ allmusic – Pokemon: The First Movie > Overview. Retrieved 2009-10-08.
  8. ^ "Dr Who scores TV awards hat-trick". BBC News. bbc.co.uk. 2006-10-31. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
  9. ^ "Doctor Who lands three TV awards". BBC News. 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2006-09-05.
  10. ^ Dermody, Nick (2006-03-30). "Third series for Dr Who and Rose". BBC. Retrieved 2006-03-30.
  11. ^ "Billie Piper to be the first female Doctor Who?". Fametastic. 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2006-06-02.
  12. ^ "Billie Piper to leave Doctor Who". BBC. 2006-06-15. Retrieved 2006-06-15.
  13. ^ "Cover Girl Billie". BBC. 2006-06-27. Retrieved 2006-06-27.
  14. ^ Dooks, Brian (2006-08-16). "Historic hall to host Austen adaptation". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 2006-08-16.
  15. ^ "The End of An Era". Doctor Who Confidential. BBC. Episode 56 (Season 4, No. 13), BBC Three, 2008-07-05.
  16. ^ a b "Billie Piper returns to Doctor Who to see David Tennant bow out in all-star show". Mail Online. 2009-05-16. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
  17. ^ "Call-girl Billie's steamy onscreen ménage a trois". Daily Mail. 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-09-26.
  18. ^ Radio Times, 23–29 January 2010
  19. ^ Sullivan, Shannon. "A Brief History Of Time (Travel): Rose (article on Billie Piper as Rose in Doctor Who)".
  20. ^ Harry, Jon (2008-09-07). "A Baby In The Piper Line". Wales On Sunday. Retrieved 2009-12-14. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  21. ^ O'Donovan, Gerard (2010-01-28). "Secret Diary of a Call Girl, ITV2, review". Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  22. ^ Fletcher, Alex (29 September 2009). "Billie Piper to star in 'Passionate Woman'". Digitalspy. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  23. ^ Cawley, Christian (30 September 2009). "Passionate Billie". Kasterborous. Retrieved 2009-10-03.
  24. ^ Calvi, Nuala (22 December 2006). "Piper breaks into the West End with Hampton's Treats". The Stage.
  25. ^ Drew, Mark (2001-06-19). "I'm happy about the wedding". Swindon Advertiser. Retrieved 2006-04-04.
  26. ^ "Billie Piper and Chris Evans (section)". The Independent. 2005-01-31. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
  27. ^ "Divorce given to Piper and Evans", BBC News, 2007-05-27. Retrieved on 2007.
  28. ^ a b Knight, Kathryn & Moodie, Clemmie (2007-06-04). "Chris Evans and Billie: A very bizarre divorce". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
  29. ^ Noah, Sherna (2007-06-27). "I won't take cash from Evans split, says Piper". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
  30. ^ "Evans: Age gap caused marriage split". 2005-02-28. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
  31. ^ "Piper and Fox arrive for wedding". BBC News. BBC Online. 31 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
  32. ^ "Billie and her beau Laurence quit the city for country life". Hello Magazine. 2007-06-04. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  33. ^ "Billie Piper gives birth to son". BBC News. 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
  34. ^ a b Barbara Ellen (2010-01-10). "Billie Piper: the modern-day Moll Flanders". The Observer. Retrieved 2010-01-14.
  35. ^ Staff writer (February 28, 2008). "Nominees Announced for Rose d'Or Festival". World Screen. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
  36. ^ "www.billie-piper.net". www.billie-piper.net. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  37. ^ Jaclyn Ward - Fireball Media Group - http://www.fireballmedia.ie. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 2010-04-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |author= (help)
  38. ^ Steffen Hung. "Billie Piper - Day & Night". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  39. ^ Steffen Hung. "Discography Billie Piper". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  40. ^ Steffen Hung. "Discographie Billie Piper". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  41. ^ Steffen Hung. "Discography Billie Piper". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
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