Product Description

This is an astonishingly candid insight into the world of Billie Piper. Famous since the age of 15 – first as the face of Smash Hits, then as a pop singer with three No.1 hits in less than three years – Billie Piper has won over the critics and the British public for a second time by re-inventing herself as an actress in BBC productions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Canterbury Tales and, of course, Doctor Who.

And that's just the professional Billie. In this book, for the first time, she talks honestly about her whirwind romance and marriage to Chris Evans, about her battles with anorexia and the dark side of teen fame. Moving, funny and honest, this is a page-turning read by one of the nation's favourite stars.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #114004 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-19
• Released on: 2006-10-19
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Synopsis
'I'm in the process of writing my first book due for release this Christmas. It may sound ridiculous being just 23 but I've a few a good stories I'd like to share. I'm hoping the book will be honest, funny, insightful and above all life affirming. This is a chance for me to talk openly about other areas of my life. Things that people won't know. Things that I'm hoping lots of people can relate to and maybe even be inspired by.' From her childhood in Swindon to the nation's 'Most Popular Actress', via a pop career and a Las Vegas marriage to Chris Evans, this memoir will be an astonishingly candid insight into the world of Billie Piper. Famous since the age of 15 -- first as the face of Smash Hits, then as a pop singer with seven top five singles (including three No.1s) in less than three years -- Billie Piper has won over the critics and the British public for a second time by re-inventing herself as an actress in BBC productions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Canterbury Tales and, of course, Doctor Who . So how did she get from there to here? This is the funny, honest and insightful story of an extraordinary young life.

About the Author

Billie Piper was born in Swindon in 1983. In her first career, starting at age fifteen, she had seven top five hit singles in five years, including three number ones. At eighteen, she married TV presenter Chris Evans in Las Vegas. She has recently appeared in BBC productions of The Canterbury Tales, Much Ado About Nothing and most famously, as Rose in Doctor Who. She was voted Most Popular Actress at the National Television Awards in 2005 and won The Times' Breakthrough Award in 2006. Billie lives in North London.

Customer Reviews

A decent read
Billie comes across as someone who doesn't want to appear to be a name dropper but is. I would have liked her to have given far more praise and credit to her parents (who seem to have pandered to her every whim in respect of her early career) than to the showbiz people she gushes over. Chris Evans, however, comes across as a thoroughly likeable and an extremely intelligent person who enlightened Billie in many aspects of her life.

Genuinely Moving and Interesting, but...
For me, the book was enjoyable, as it flitted between aspects of her life, that I really could identify with, her unhapiness at school, (for example, the picture of her and her brother on their first day at school, Billie looked how I felt on my first day), her wanting her parents to take her away from her unhappiness, and how this resembled how Rose Tyler felt and what the Doctor provided for her. It also painted a picture of a girl, I would have been envious of at school, with the acting and dancing, and utimately stage school. It also provided a real nostalgia trip, and probably because Billie's my generation, and like someone previously mentioned, the reference to Lynx Africa and other things, took me back to when I was her age. It also help me (and probably others) see what she saw in Chris Evans, and now I understand why she married him.

However, I have only given the book three stars, because of the rather glaring consistent factual errors that peppers the book. Off the top of my head, there were many instances where names were given incorrectly, for example, a passage refered to 'Lucy Amy who played Chardonay in Footballers' Wives', she is actually Susie Amy. Luke Mably was refered to as Luc Mabbley, and even Christopher Eccleston's name was mispelt. Other factual errors included stating that Andi Peters presented on Going Live, he didn't, he presented Live and Kicking.

Whilst, this may seem petty, it's frustrating as this is supposed to be an autobiography from an actress, yet she couldn't get her peers' names right. In particular as this is supposed to be an updated version, and these errors are also in the hardback version, all it would have taken for Billie or her Ghost Writer to get this right, would be a quick glance on the internet, and I think this could have been a truly excellent autobiography.

LOVE ME SOME BILLIE
I must admit, being a pop music fan I've always liked Billie. Especially her tracks "Day And Night" and "Something Deep Inside".
What a brilliant book, Billie seems to talk and think in much the same way as I do. What I love about her, is that she is so honest, and isn't victim to her own hype. She calls a spade a spade, and you get the feeling most of what she is saying is more like a one on one conversation with a friend. I would be very interested to meet her in the flesh, I think she would be very cool.
I never knew what went on behind the scenes of her pop career, and never understood until now why she never made a pop comeback.
Love her, she is awesome. After reading this and watching "The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl" I want to see everything she's in.
Billie rocks!