Nineties singer turned actress Billie Piper stepped out for the ELLE Style Awards in London yesterday.
She wore a blue satin swimsuit with a black neck ruffle and big matching hat.
It’s 23 years since Piper dominated the charts as a teen pop star, having fun with a string of hits within the late 90s and early noughties, together with three UK quantity ones. Here in Australia, she scored 5 prime 20 singles, together with the highest 10 hits Honey to the Bee and Day & Night.
But by 2001, along with her final single underperforming, Piper turned her again on music, retiring from her first profession earlier than the age of 20.
She discovered new success as an actor, starring in a number of seasons of Doctor Who from 2006, the TV exhibits Secret Diary of a Call Girl and Penny Dreadful, and extra just lately the acclaimed collection I Hate Suzie.
Now 40, the BAFTA-nominated star has repeatedly mentioned she has no intention of ever returning to the profession that made her well-known.
“It was the most punishing schedule ever,” she mentioned on the Changes With Annie Macmanus podcast in 2021 of her teen pop years.
She mentioned her music profession “made me quite cynical, quite jaded and incredibly paranoid,” and that by the point her hits dried up she was “so angry and so exhausted and burnt out”.
Speaking to the Guardian earlier this 12 months, she additionally mentioned she couldn’t imagine she was allowed to embark on a music profession at such a younger age, having signed her file deal aged simply 14.
“I just don’t know in what world anyone thought that was OK,” she mentioned.
“I know how unbelievably dead set on it I was, and how precocious I was. But really, it’s just so – it’s so young.”
Mum-of-three Piper has been married twice earlier than – to radio DJ Chris Evans, who she wed in 2001 when she was 18 and he was 35, and controversial actor Laurence Fox, who she divorced in 2016, the identical 12 months she began courting present companion Johnny Lloyd.
Source: www.news.com.au
