Billie set for 'callgirl' role

Billie Piper is set to play a callgirl in a TV adaptation of the best-selling book Belle de Jour, it was revealed today.

Belle’s adventures, which started life as an anonymous internet blog, are being turned into a Channel 4 drama.

The series is in development and should hit screens later this year.

Piper, 24, is best known as Rose Tyler in the BBC’s Doctor Who.

She quit the sci-fi show last year and appeared in the Victorian period drama The Ruby In The Smoke.

Her next role will be as Fanny Price in an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.

A Channel 4 spokeswoman said: “The Belle de Jour drama is in early development and Billie Piper is attached to star in it.”