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Hannah Baxter (Billie Piper) is the lead semi-fictional character and protagonist of the British ITV2 television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Hannah secretly has a double life as a high-class call girl as her alter ego Belle , for which she acknowledges and comments directly to the audience, throughout each episode.
Hannah has writer's block but does recall her job with Ashok from the first episodes, but has to postpone her meeting with Ben and the potential publisher. She returns to Stephanie and accepts a job paying 5000, but the client turns out to be Alex confirming that she isn't giving up her call girl lifestyle.
Ben is the manager of a London bar and is at first unaware of Hannah's real job. Ben is in a relationship with his girlfriend Vanessa who does not care for Hannah. Over the course of the series Hannah and Ben's relationship develops. Cherie Lunghi as Stephanie Charlton: Hannah's agent in the first series. Stephanie runs a successful escorting ...
The episode's viewers were 985,000, [1] however this number, although the lowest of Series 1, still beats every episode figure of Series 2, which managed to hold on to much fewer audiences. Additionally, although a series low for viewing figures, it was still the highest rated programme in terms of viewing figures that week for ITV2 .
Hannah Clarke (formerly Baxter; 8 September 1988 – 19 February 2020) met New Zealand-born Rowan Baxter in 2008, eleven years her senior, when she was aged 19. [7] Baxter, a former rugby league player who trialled with the New Zealand Warriors , [ 8 ] was previously married to another woman.
The episode, which aired from 10:00 pm, attracted 344,000 viewers, a 1.4% audience share. [7] Although Billie and the Real Belle Bare All received moderate ratings considering ITV2 is a digital channel , its rating were significantly lower than any Secret Diary of a Call Girl episode.
Episode 1.1's viewing success has never been matched by a subsequent Secret Diary of a Call Girl episode; the closest to this was Episode 1.2 with 1,475,000. Not only was the episode a success, ranking at number 1 for ITV2's viewing figures that week, but the second highest programme that week, a Sunday repeat of The X Factor , was 870,000 ...
Piper starred as Hannah Baxter in Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007–2012), an ITV2 adaptation of Brooke Magnanti's The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, a memoir detailing the life of a high-class prostitute who adopted "Belle de Jour" as her pseudonym, which aired from September 2007. As part of her preparation for the role, Piper ...