0x1 - Billie and the Real Belle Bare All

January 25, 2010

Billie Piper meets the real Belle de Jour, Dr Brooke Magnanti in an intimate and revealing conversation about her time spent as a high class call girl. In her first full length television interview Brooke discusses her reason for becoming a call girl, her clients' bizarre requests and her motivation to reveal her identity after six years of anonymity. The show also gives viewers a chance to see footage from the forthcoming third series of the drama inspired by her story. Billie gives Brooke the chance to talk openly about her work as a prostitute, and Brooke explains how it felt the first time she met a client, some of the outrageous scenarios she was involved in and finally her decision to give it all up to concentrate on becoming a bestselling author and a research scientist. Billie and Brooke also discuss the accusations directed at them for glamorising prostitution.