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The Doctor Would Not Approve. And To Be Honest, I'm Not That Comfortable With It, Either

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (19)

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If you’re like me, and you got hooked on the current incarnation of “Doctor Who” late, then I’m sure that after you finished the first two seasons, the first thing you did was to make a mad dash to YouTube to see what Rose Tyler looked like in an undressed state in clips of “Secret Diary of a Call Girl.” Admit it, you felt kind of wrong about it. Because we oughtn’t be looking at Rose Tyler that way.

Of course, that was part of the appeal.

It took me about 30 seconds to sate my curiosity, and I rarely give much thought to the fact that Billie Piper is nightly shagging folks on my premium channels. Once I saw her as Belle, the two identities completely separated. Billie Piper will always be Rose Tyler. That woman on Showtime is someone completely different. But really hot. And she looks like someone who would be on a Showtime After Dark series.

Anyway, other than a couple of clips on YouTube, I’ve never seen a moment of “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” so I can’t vouch for its guilty-pleasure value. But I did enjoy the trailer for the fourth and final season of the British series, for obvious heterosexual reason. I am also led to understand that, in the fourth season, Belle (Piper) has to choose between a life with her best friend or one as a prostitute.

Decisions, decisions.









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Comments

I actually watched Secret Diary of a Call Girl before falling in love Doctor Who, so my love for Rose was deliciously conflicted.

Also ::drool::

Posted by: Patty O'Green at March 9, 2011 12:42 AM

Bille Piper is not a good actress (IMHO). Any nice feeling you have for Rose is because she is pretty and looks good naked, not because she's a good actress. So liking her as a hooker seems fine to me.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at March 9, 2011 12:47 AM

No, she's not the greatest actress. She's not a particularly good interviewer, either, having seen the half-hour that she did with the actual Belle du Jour once Belle decided to reveal herself.

I've never seen a single episode of Doctor Who (heresy, I know), so the only real point of reference I have for Billie Piper is Call Girl, which I watch because I find it quaint, which is, at heart, the same reason I listen to Dan Savage's podcasts. Heterosexuals having the vast frontier beyond vanilla sex in monogamous relationships explained to them amuses me to no end.

As far as Billie Piper naked, the straight men can take this for what it's worth: I've seen better. But what do I know? I didn't think Ashley DuPre's hoo-hah could possibly be worth anything near $10 grand, even if it came with daily privileges for a month.

(BTW, what the hell is all that about? $10,000 for sex? Man or woman, nobody's naughty bits are worth that kind of money.)

Posted by: Jerry at March 9, 2011 1:41 AM

A few months ago I ran out of anything new to watch after catching up on my routine favorites. So I watched a marathon of Doctor Who, and Torchwood all over again. And I watched every Graham Norton episode with anyone that stepped into the Tardis on youtube. I saw Billie and thought hey why not. Rose Tyler was kind of a favorite companion because I started at the beginning and for those of us ignorant of the legacy, she was our window on this cooky fantastic brilliant man (be it in a jumper and leather jacket or a pair of trainers and a striped suit that eventually alternated colors depending on where he was timey-whimey). So of course the natural progression of this addiction was to download every episode of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. I don't know what I expected but it took a few episodes to adjust to seeing her... you know... and the fact that they are only 30 minute episodes and only 8 of them per season seems a shame once you acclimate to what the show is. And really the show gets good once you aren't thinking of her as Rose Tyler and it isn't just gratuitous soft porn scenes.
Definitely the American tv watcher in me thinks "how do these crazy brits get away with 8 episodes of a 30 minute show and call it a season?" But the past couple years have got me less rattled by that just slightly peeved there isn't more when I go binge tv watching.

Posted by: protoformX at March 9, 2011 2:32 AM

Never seen a single episode of Doctor Who, or that Call Girl shit, but she did regularly use the treadmill in the gym I used to go to, and, frankly, I wasn't convinced.

Posted by: zeke the pig at March 9, 2011 4:17 AM

" choose between a life with her best friend or one as a prostitute."

It shouldn't even be a struggle, prostitute wins, hands down.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at March 9, 2011 5:30 AM

She looked good in the first season of Call Girl, but she was preggers for the second season and it's been a body double ever since. Also, she did not take well to pregnancy and motherhood because she has really lost the quirky sexiness she used to have.
Speaking of short British seasons, does anyone remember the show Trinity from a couple years ago? About a college at an elite university involved in secretly turning their rowers into drug-addled "supermen"? They spent eight episodes building up this whole mystery and then just cancelled the show with absolutely nothing resolved. There was some good eye candy on that show too.

Posted by: GCS at March 9, 2011 9:31 AM

If you REALLY want to feel wrong, check out this clip from SDoaCG where Rose nails the 11th Doctor too!

Boy ain't she a Time Lord's slut. Then again technically they're all the same person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8gJvf2a23Q

Posted by: bleujayone at March 9, 2011 9:43 AM

Can someone from Britain please clue me in? I've seen every episode of Dr. Who. I've seen the clip of Prostirose with 11. Has she always had big, fooking lips? I mean they seem so overstuffed that she always sounds like she's mumbling. If find them very unactractive. Your lips have to be big if they are distracting me from your boobs, eyebrows, skin and roots.

Posted by: BWeaves at March 9, 2011 10:04 AM

My theory is that in Rose Tyler, Billie Piper found the perfect role to blend her natural perkiness with a CHAV background. She hasn't been that good in anything else: Call Girl or that series she made set in Victorian England where she solves mysteries. In fact she was so horribly miscast in the Victorian thing that I stopped watching in Episode 2 and I am typically a sucker for anything that involves bustles.
Also, given that she is married to the incredibly hot and interesting Laurence Fox, I assume her real life personality is a lot closer to Rose, which backs up my point about her finding the role where she could play herself.

Posted by: PaddyDog at March 9, 2011 10:37 AM

Does no one remember her as a pop star in the 90s? That was bad...

Posted by: denesteak at March 9, 2011 11:09 AM

Does no one remember her as a pop star in the 90s? That was bad...

That is ALL I will ever remember about her. Because We Want To is arguably one of the worst 90s pop songs in existence.

Posted by: wuggle at March 9, 2011 11:16 AM

Secret Diary is such a crazy stupid guilty pleasure. But I can't stop myself. It's the soft core equivalent of red wine for me.

Posted by: Julie at March 9, 2011 11:29 AM

I, too, am conflicted about this Doctor Hoo-hoo.

Posted by: Odnon. at March 9, 2011 12:36 PM

I think she was so much prettier when she was a bit heavier and didn't have so many teeth. I mean, is it just me, or does she have more teeth than she used to? I'm not trying to be catty here, I swear, I'm genuinely convinced she grew a second row of teeth like a shark.

Sigh. I liked her better as Rose.

Posted by: ZombieNurse at March 9, 2011 1:55 PM

Admit it, you felt kind of wrong about it.

I didn't feel wrong at all. Am I missing some sort of wiring that I should have?

Posted by: DarthCorleone at March 9, 2011 2:15 PM

ZombieNurse: THAT'S IT!!! It's a second set of teeth. That's why her lips keep getting pushed out of her face. She's turning into a landshark.

Posted by: BWeaves at March 9, 2011 2:38 PM

No, Darth, you aren't. Billie Piper, at least in season one of this show, is sexy personified.

Posted by: RobP at March 9, 2011 6:21 PM

I really didn't care for Rose, maybe just a bit to whiny and clinging. Then came Amy and as someone who watched Doctor Who on PBS back in the 80's all I can say is gimme some scotch.

Posted by: clancys_daddy at March 9, 2011 9:07 PM