Billie Piper's New Role

Billie Piper, aka Rose Tyler in Doctor Who, is to make a return to the BBC in a TV version of Kay Mellor's successful stage play, A Passionate Woman. Piper will play a young wife and mother who has a relationship with a Polish Neighbour in 1950s Leeds. The drama also sees Billie playing the main character 'Betty' during various stages in her life, including both the 1950s and 1980s. The programme starts filming in Leeds this month and will be broadcast on BBC One in 2010.

(Source: BBC News)
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