viewers will get a chance to see Magnanti this Monday evening as Showtime will air a half-hour conversation between Piper and Magnanti ahead of the launch of Season 3 of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, set to begin the following week. “I always knew she was a bright, well-cultured woman but I had no idea about how her mind worked and how clever and intellectual she actually is.” “We filmed this third season before she outed herself, so I was still none the wiser when it came to her current profession,” said Piper, who acknowledged that the revelation did challenge some of the preconceptions Piper had about Belle de Jour. Piper hasn’t yet had the opportunity to reconcile her portrayal of Hannah with the truth of Belle de Jour’s identity as the upcoming third season was written and shot before Magnanti publicly outed herself.
I think that’s what made it easier to be a call girl and live with this enormous secret.” “It’s amazing isn’t it that all of these years of… work as a call girl financed her time to study and now it’s come to fruition? It helped me to understand how she’s able to compartmentalize so easily because she works in numbers and sums, so everything is kind of organized and has its own place. “I didn’t know really anything about her job as a scientist,” said Piper. But Piper certainly didn’t realize that the woman she knew as Belle de Jour was in fact a child-health researcher at Bristol University. Piper said that when she met Magnanti she knew that she was no longer employed as a call girl. “It was strange and covert… I felt slightly on edge about the whole thing, to be honest… Since she’s basically outed herself, she’s quite a different woman… She’s as ever insightful and candid and funny and it was to sit in front of her and hear her stories.” “It was good actually because the first time I met was before we filmed the show and I could see she was trying to maintain her ,” Piper told The Daily Beast. Since Magnanti went public with the identity, the two have spent time together, which Piper said was a great experience.
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Piper met the real Belle de Jour once before shooting the first season of Secret Diary but was unaware of her full bio. It was a double life that Magnanti allegedly kept secret from everyone around her. thesis by working as a high-class call girl. Brooke Magnanti, a 34-year-old University of Bristol research scientist who supported herself while writing her Ph.D. The pseudonymous author Belle de Jour was unexpectedly revealed to be Dr. One plot thread that won’t be explored this season is Hannah outing herself as the real-life Belle de Jour did this past November. “Since she’s basically outed herself, she’s quite a different woman,” said star Billie Piper. But the secret is further complicated by her new job as a famous author operating under the pseudonym of Belle de Jour, following the publication of a steamy book based on the titular call girl’s diary. Hannah is still living a double life her family believes she is a legal secretary, while only her closest friends, including the jealous Ben (Iddo Goldberg) and ditzy fellow call girl Bambi (Ashley Madekwe), know the truth about her profession. 28) and starts with a behind-the-scenes special with Piper and the actual Belle de Jour. Season 3 of Secret Diary of a Call Girl debuts at 10 p.m.
Based on a blog by real-life call girl “Belle de Jour,” the show doesn’t glorify prostitution, presenting it merely as just another career choice for ambitious young women. Showtime’s answer to Sex and the City is the British-accented comedy Secret Diary of a Call Girl, which stars former Doctor Who star Billie Piper as Hannah, a tartly voiced university graduate who makes her living as a high-class call girl named Belle.
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