Billie Piper: 'I want to be an X Factor judge'

Billie Piper: 'I want to be an X Factor judge'
Billie Piper: 'I want to be an X Factor judge' (Image credit: EMPICS)

Billie Piper revealed that while she has put her music days behind her, she would love to be a judge on The X Factor. Speaking to Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on This Morning, Billie admitted that she felt now was the right time to end her run in ITV2's Secret Diary of a Call Girl and what she would love to do next. "We usually film during the summer so I think when we start to approach the summer I will start to miss it, but I also feel like it's definitely the time to go and to move on." Billie went on to say that there are still two things she would love to do: "I'd love to be a judge on the X Factor - doesn't everyone? It would be amazing. I'd have to be very nice and probably tell a lot of lies. "And I want to be Beyonce as well - I don't know if that could happen but..." However, when asked if she would go back to music, she said: "No, I think my music days are done." Secret Diary of A Call Girl starts on Tuesday February 1 at 10pm on ITV2.

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.