Emmerdale star: I'd love to work with my ex Billie

Emmerdale star: I'd love to work with my ex Billie
Emmerdale star: I'd love to work with my ex Billie (Image credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Emmerdale star Lyndon Ogbourne said he'd love to work with ex-girlfriend Billie Piper one day. The actor, who plays devious Nathan Wylde in the ITV1 soap, went to drama club with Billie when they were growing up in Swindon, Wiltshire, and the pair dated for a while. Lyndon said: "We were close friends up until we were 16 or 17, then as soon as she got together with Chris Evans everything completely changed for her. "I'd really like the opportunity to work with her. I think she wants to do a play back in London. Obviously she's doing amazing film work and really taking off. But I always thought it would be quite funny to bump into her. "To have that history of growing up together and to come back to together more grown up and say 'we're doing it! We're getting away with it (being an actor)!" The 26-year-old actor said he's watched in admiration as the Secret Diary Of A Call Girl star's career has rocketed, but is most impressed that she's now a mother to baby Winston. "She completely blossomed, not only into an amazingly successful girl, but I love the fact she's a mum now. I think it's amazing. I'm the broodiest boy in the world!: Next week Emmerdale viewers will see Nathan lure Leyla Harding (Roxanne Ghawam-Shahidi) into bed after plying her with pearls and charm.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.