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Book Review - Found on Web
This review is for: Belle De Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl (Hardcover)
Belle de Jour (http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com) rightly won the Guardian Weblog award for the best written blog of 2003, and went on to become a blog ph.........
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Secret Diary of a Call Girl Review, by Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly
Based on the memoir The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, Diary is interested as much in the workaday moments of the sex trade: lonely 3 a.m. hotel lobbies; etiquette and hygiene; encounters boring, unpleasant, or strangely sweet, all in ...
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Best Short Series
In my mind, this is one of the most sexy series I have ever watched. It has the potential to top Sex and The City.
Secret Diary of A Call Girl will be a hit and I can't wait for Season 2 to come in September 2008.
Watch all your Secret Diary fix here! ...
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Secret Diary of a Call Girl Links
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Showtime Sets Premieres for January 18th
January 18th will be a ladies' night for Showtime as they announced today that The L Word and Secret Diary of a Call Girl will be returning and that new series The United States of Tara will be premiering.
The L Word will kick off the lineup at 9, .........
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The sex tips I gave Billie, by the real-life call girl who inspired her TV role
By Belle du Jour September 23, 2007
Billie looked as nervous as I felt. "What happens in a GFE?" she asked. Wow, I thought. She'd clearly been doing her research.
GFE is short for girlfriend experience. It's popular with men who don't like to feel ...
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Billie Piper uses body doubles in The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl.
Billie Piper was forced to use two body doubles as her pregnant figure did not allow the cameras to film close ups of her growing body.
Billie's character, Belle De Jour, in the TV show, The Secret Diary of a Call Girl, often showed the character s...
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Discussions
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New Episodes
Does anyone know if there are going to be any new episodes on soon?
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Check out re-re-vamped page!
I vamped up the page for this site again - check it out ! I added a link to Belle's official blog - where it all began. Also, link to a documentary on the UK sex blog phenom and the names of some of the most famous sex blogers in the UK. Included ...
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Completely Revampled Page!!!
I completely vamped up the page for this site - check it out! I added a ton of pictures and show information. I'd love to know what you all think! :->
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Cast & Crew
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Billie Piper as
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Iddo Goldberg as
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Cherie Lunghi as
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Toyah Willcox as
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Callum Blue as
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Ahsen Bhatti as
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Emily Butterfield as
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Keira Jane Malik as
Tanya - Ashley Madekwe as
Bambi - Maggie Lloyd Williams as
Yolanda
Wiki
Show Information
Networks: Showtime (U.S.) and ITV2 (U.K.) (ITV2 Bonus videos on site will only play within the UK.)
RATING: TV-MA (V,S,D)-Nudity, Adult Language & Content, Strong Sexual Content
Read The Official UK Blog That Started It All!
Belle's Official Blog - Where the Phenom First Began in the UK!
Additional Show Links
Books Written by Belle de Jour
- The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
- Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
- Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Buy Secret Diary of a Call Girl through Amazon.com in the United States
Buy Secret Diary of a Call Girl through Amazon.com in The United Kingdom
Related Documetary and Blogs
Watch Documentary: Sex in the Noughties - The Sex Blog Girls which chronicles the popularity of UK sex blogs of Belle du Jour and Abby Lee (aka Zoey Margolis "Girl With a One Track Mind") among others:
Girl-With-A-One-Track-Mind Official Blog
Girl-With-A-One-Track-Mind Official Facebook Page
More "Sex Blog Women" aka Writers of "Clit Lit"
UK:
- Belle du Jour
- Abby Lee
- Scarlet the Harlot
- Twenty Something Girl
- Cliterati
- Silva Fox
- Bitchy Jones
- Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying - 1970's Book
U.S.:
- Jessica Cutler
Characters
BILLIE PIPER:
Belle (real name Hannah Baxter) is a 27-year-old graduate living in London, who has worked for the last few years as a high class escort. She's an independent, witty young woman who loves her job and unconventional lifestyle. Belle is able to do her job by compartmentalizing her life into Hannah and Belle, but over time she finds these compartments increasingly hard to maintain. To her parents she's Hannah, the legal secretary. Even her closest pal has no idea about her working life. To her clients Belle is whatever they want her to be. She can be the quiet girl-next-door. Or she can be the high-heeled dominatrix who whips them into submission. The whos is based on "The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour," series created by Lucy Prebble from an idea by Paul Duane.
CHERIE LUNGHI:
Stephanie, 49, is the manager of the agency Belle works for. Stephanie is an ex-working girl who now lives alone and whose only love is for work. She is rich, glamorous, with a wicked, sharp wit. Belle hopes she never becomes as duplicitous and materialistic as Stephanie seems to be, but they do have similarities.IDDO GOLDBERG:
Ben is Belle's best friend, and ex-boyfriend of many years ago. They met at university and have had a close friendship ever since. They share almost everything including their sense of humor. The only secret between them is Belle's job. Ben is in a long term relationship with another woman.HANNAH'S PARENTS:
Hannah's parents, Gail and Niall, have no idea what their younger daughter actually does for a living, they believe Belle's lie - that she is a night-time legal secretary.
--TOYAH WILLCOX:
Belle's mother, Gail, feels the distance between herself and her daughter and really wants Belle to get involved with the family's life.
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Belle's father, Niall, is an old-fashioned dad who loves his daughter very much, but we get the sense he knows his daughter is keeping something from the family.
DANIEL:
Before Belle meets Daniel at a posh London hotel she assumes she's going to see a middle aged man in need of an ego boost. Then Daniel turns up. He's great looking, athletic and caring.About Season 2: Coming September 2008
Billie Piper began filming second series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl on May 14, 2008
She's back as Belle in a second series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl on ITV2 in the UK. The series that achieved record audiences of more than two million in 2007 returns to the channel for a further eight episodes in September 2008.
Based on the best-selling, real life diaries of an upmarket escort, Secret Diary of a Call Girl allows us a deeper look into the world of the glamorous and intelligent Belle de Jour (Billie Piper) aka Hannah to her family.
Belle is now a high-class independent escort. Unintentionally befriended by the bubbly but clingy Bambi (Ashley Madekwe - Trial & Retribution, Drop Dead Gorgeous), Belle finds herself an unwilling mentor to this wannabe call girl. And while her best friend Ben (Iddo Goldberg), the only person who knows about her secret life, seems to be settling down into domestic bliss, Belle is throwing herself into her work.
But then Hannah meets Alex (Callum Blue - The Tudors, Dirt), the handsome doctor who she mistakes for a client in a hotel bar. Belle faces the most difficult question of all - can you keep having sex for money if you're falling in love? Will the girl who thinks she has it all ever really manage to have a relationship?
Cherie Lunghi (Casualty 1906, The Brief, Cutting It) returns as Belle's former agent Stephanie. Toyah Wilcox and Stuart Organ return as Hannah's parents.
Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a Tiger Aspect /Silverapples Media/MF Management production for ITV. The producer is Jacquie Glanville and the series producers are Rebecca de Souza and Roanna Benn. The directors are Fraser Macdonald (Holby City, Shameless) and Peter Lydon (Fairytales - Cinderella, Vincent). Writers include Lucy Prebble, Julie Gearey and Chloe Moss. The executive producers are Greg Brenman for Tiger Aspect, Avril MacRory for Silverapples Media and Michael Foster of MF Management.























