Billie and the bard.Byline: By Roz Laws FRESH from being voted Britain's Most Popular Actress in the National Television Awards, Billie Piper is back to brighten up our screens. She's brings a little ray of sunshine to her role as weathergirl Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. 1, Monday), one of four modern adaptations of the Bard's classics as part of the Shakespeare Retold re·told v. Past tense and past participle of retell. series. Cold Feet writer David Nicholls has moved the romantic comedy from 16th-century Italy to a 21st-century regional TV newsroom. Presenter Beatrice (Sarah Parish) is appalled when her ex-lover Benedick (Damian Lewis) is hired as her co-anchor - but, beneath the bickering, they are clearly made for each other. Meanwhile there's a whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero and sports presenter Claude (Tom Ellis). Billie, who also brought Chaucer to a modern audience in The Miller's Tale, says: 'I used to find Shakespeare so daunting, but this is so funny and every line is a corker. 'The worst part was pronouncing all the meteorological me·te·or·ol·o·gy n. The science that deals with the phenomena of the atmosphere, especially weather and weather conditions. [French météorologie, from Greek terms, like altostratus altostratus: see cloud. castellanus.' In her spare time, the 22-year-old enjoys movies - 'I'll go to the cinema for an entire day and just do back-to-back movie watching' - and driving her 1989 911 Porsche. 'I bought myself this amazing car that I've wanted since I was a little girl. It's white, with black bumpers and a leather interior with cream piping. It's so beautiful, I can't believe I'm allowed to drive it!' |
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