Billie Piper sees Penny as poetic and thoughtful, though her Brona Croft is living on the dog-eat-dog outskirts of society.
An Irish immigrant and “lady of the night” who turns tricks yet also faces a crippling disease, she doesn’t adhere to Victorian etiquette and acting “appropriate, even though the underworld of that era is perverse and mad,” Piper says. “She behaves like a lad, so even though the corset kind of straps you up, it was good to be loose in it.”
Billie has been listed as being a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 22nd April during her trip to the US! If you live around the area of Los Angeles, you can get free tickets HERE!
I have several friends who, like me, are married to women who are better-looking, smarter and more influential than we are. Well, now we’ve decided to strike back. After much discussion we have labelled our wives WOPs (women of power) and when we feel that they are taking us for granted we begin the chant, WOP WOP WOP WOP in pathetic emasculated unison. In return, our partners, after a short chat, have retaliated by labelling us CIJs (cocks in jars) — the idea being that our poor little manhoods are stored in jars by the bed, on the WOP side of the bed of course. The weakest of us have become CABIJs, pronounced cabbages (cocks and balls in jars) and for the real slugs of our group, those nodding like terriers at every command from their WOP, is reserved the final insult: ‘Pickled CABIJ.’ I need not explain more, or at all probably.
Illness tried and failed to stop Billie Piper from attending her first American convention. We talked about her decision to take on the roles of Rose Tyler in 2005 and The Moment in 2013 during a break in her marathon autograph sessions at Gallifrey One.
Listen to the interview with ‘Two Minute Timelord – here!