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| • | "puffed on a ciggie", Daily Star (UK), May 9, '00 |
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| • | "Cleaner than clean teen pop star Billie Piper chain smoking like a navvy at an awards ceremony the other day - despite her efforts to to hide her fag under the table when journalists approached", The Mirror (UK), May 12, '00 |
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| • | chainsmoking, Sunday Mirror (UK), Jun. 18, '00 |
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| • | "In recent weeks, she has been spotted chain smoking and was pictured flashing her bare chest on stage at a gay nightclub", Daily Mail (UK), Jun. 19, '00 |
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| • | "At the Loaded awards party, she hid her cigarette under the table", The Independent (UK), Aug. 13, '00 |
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| • | "She has been seen out smoking and drinking white wine with friends, even though at 17 she is too young to be served alcohol", Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 15, '00 |
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| • | "I spotted cleaner than clean teen pop star 'Puffing' Billie Piper chain smoking like a navvy at an awards ceremony the other day - despite her efforts to hide her fag under the table when journalists approached", The Mirror (UK), Oct. 16, '00
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| • | "She passed the time reading a magazine and lighting the occasional cigarette", The Sun (UK), Dec. 30, '00 |
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| • | "Billie and Chris Evans were buying cigarettes and alcohol from a supermarket not far from their house", The Sun (UK), '00 |
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| • | "She has a Marlboro Light cigarette in one hand and a glass of white wine in the other", "She was to be seen puffing away on cigarette after cigarette", Daily Mail (UK), Feb. 17, '01 |
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| • | "sitting by the pool, smoking cigarettes", Daily Mail (UK), Apr. 14, '01 |
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| • | "appears to be doing her best to kick her worst habit. No, she's not starting to get up before midday or giving up the drinking sessions with her husband, she's struggling to stop smoking. Before she married Chris Evans she was regularly seen out smoking with her young friends in London's trendiest nightspots. So why was she spotted in the swanky Sanderson recently sneaking off to the ladies' loos for a secret cigarette?", Sunday Mirror (UK), Jul. 1, '01
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| • | "At 12 she had a professional appointment diary and a smoking habit", The Guardian (UK), Sep. 8, '03
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| • | "As a teenage pop star she used to stay awake worrying about work; now she says: 'I don't bite my nails or smoke unless I'm working'", Evening Standard (UK), Jan. 9, '04 |
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| • | "On this particular afternoon, Billie has a fag, and then moves on to one of her other bad habits - shoving things up her nostrils - namely her own fingers", Sunday Mirror (UK), May 23, '04 |
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| • | "She was smoking non-stop", The Sun (UK), Sep. 25, '04 |
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| • | "arms laden with cigarettes, a mobile phone and a restorative orange juice...stops to fiddle with her cigarettes...she is a typical 22-year-old, one who likes a drink, a smoke and a night out with the girls", Belfast Telegraph (UK), Aug. 18, '05
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| • | "Repairing to the beer garden, Piper dumps her things on the table: a 'just-died-on-me' mobile, a packet of Marlboro Lights, her purse", The Times (UK), Oct. 16, '05
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| • | "smokes a packet of cigarettes a day", Daily Mirror (UK), Nov. 2, '05
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| • | "I asked her if she thought her time with Evans meant that people took her less seriously. 'Probably', she shrugged, fingering her pack ofMarlboro Lights", Daily Telegraph (UK), Nov. 5, '05 |
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| • | "I just have a cigarette and wait to go on", OFI Sunday, Nov. 20, '05 |
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| • | "fingering her pack of Marlboro Lights", The Telegraph (UK), Nov. '05 |
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| • | "doesn't mind meeting fans, with one caveat - 'The only time it really annoys me is when I'm smoking a fag, because when a kid walks up I always feel obliged to put it out. I can never bloody finish a cigarette'", Scottish Sunday Herald (UK), Apr. 9, '06
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| • | "Doctor Who beauty Billie Piper finds the time and space for a crafty ciggie as she films a new BBC costume drama yesterday... Billie, 23, was clad in Victorian garb as she lit up in Sunderland" w/pic, The Sun (UK), Jun. 10, '06
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| • | "said she stopped eating for days at a time, living on Diet Coke and cigarettes", Sunday Mirror (UK), Sep. 24, '06
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| • | "was able to stop eating for days at a time, surviving on Diet Coke and cigarettes", Mail on Sunday (You magazine) (UK), Sep. 24, '06 |
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| • | "Coffee, Diet Coke and cigarettes would often be the only things she took on board", Independent on Sunday (UK), Oct. 1, '06
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| • | "[Of her former anorexia:] I was living pretty much off black coffee, Diet Coke and cigarettes... I'd gone from being a bubbly fun person, always wanting to have a great time, to this withdrawn person perpetually dragging on a cigarette... I could get to 4pm pretty easily if I drank enough coffee and diet Coke and smoked enough cigarettes", Growing Pains by Billie Piper, '06 |
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| • | "confessed she managed five days without food and existed on nothing more than Diet Coke, coffee and cigarettes.", ITV (UK), Oct. 2, '06
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| • | "went five days without food and has existed on nothing more than Diet Coke, coffee and cigarettes", Daily Mirror (UK), Oct. 2, '06
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| • | "often just consumed Diet Coke and black coffee and smoked cigarettes", Scottish Daily Record (UK), Oct. 2, '06
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| • | "lived on a diet of cigarettes, coffee and diet Coke, then moved on to laxatives", Wales on Sunday (UK), Oct. 22, '06
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| • | "manically chewing gum and puffing on Marlboro Lights", Sunday Telegraph (Stella magazine) (UK), Feb. 4, '07
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| • | "I go round and have a cigarette and say, 'can I pop that dress on?' We'll share a Superking and I'll be wearing someone else's wedding dress", London Metro (UK), Feb. 16, '07
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| • | "For TV you need to have a few minutes of intense concentration and then you can go and have a cigarette and a doughnut and it's quite chilled", Western Mail (UK), Mar. 17, '07
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| • | "What a drag... Billie enjoys a cigarette... sucks on a cigarette - after yet another smoking performance on stage. The former Doctor Who star, 24, chatted to fans while she puffed outside London's Garrick Theatre, where she is appearing in the play Treats. One fan said: 'She must have been desperate for a smoke because she lit up straight after walking out'", w/pic dragging, The Sun (UK), Apr. 5, '07
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| • | "I shouldn't smoke as much either, but I like a cigarette - I like all the things you aren't supposed to like", News of the World (UK), Apr. 29, '07
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| • | "With the new smoking ban in place, Billie decided she couldn't go with out her fix, slipping outside for a puff with a friend" w/pic, Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 9, '07
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| • | "stepped outside for a cigarette", Daily Mirror (UK), Aug. 10, '07
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| • | "Cacooned in an oversize puffa jacket and woolly hat to battle the biting cold, the actress snuck off set for a quick cigarette break", w/ pic, Daily Mail, Nov. 30, '07
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| • | "Billie, 25, who is a keen smoker, has no plans to kick her nicotine habit. She added: 'January is cold, dark and miserable - just the time when you need your comforts. It's at this time of year you want to smoke, drink and eat everything'", The Cheers (Estonia), Jan. 2, '08
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| • | "had a sneaky cigarette outside the back of the venue", NME (UK), Feb. 21, '08
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| • | "having a sneaky fag out the back entrance", Daily Mirror (UK), Feb. 21, '08
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| • | "Billie Piper is reportedly trying to give up smoking before trying to start a family with husband Laurence Fox. The couple, who married on New Year's Eve, are said to want to start their family as soon as possible - but former Doctor Who star Billie is determined to cut out her cigarette habit first rather than waiting until she's already pregnant. A source close to the couple said recently: 'As you'd expect, they want everything to be perfect for her first pregnancy but she's smoked for so long that she's finding it hard going'", Fametastic, Apr. 17, '08
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| • | "tried to give up smoking", Sunday Express (UK), Apr. 27, '08
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| • | "is also said to be trying to quit smoking and has been on an organic health kick", Daily Star (UK), Apr. 28, '08
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| • | "I went home, had a cigarette and a sandwich", New York Post, Jun. 22, '08
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| • | quit - "Pregnant Billie Piper: I'm craving cigarettes. Actress says she really wants a puff. Pregnant Billie Piper says she has been longing for a fag. But the actress, who is due to give birth to husband Laurence Fox's child in three months, has resisted. 'I gave up smoking straight away and it was fine,' she says. 'But now I'm craving a cigarette sooo badly' ", Now magazine (UK), Sep. 20, '08
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| • | quit - "Pregnant Billie Piper says she has been longing for a fag. But the actress, who is due to give birth to husband Laurence Fox's child in three months, has resisted. 'I gave up smoking straight away and it was fine,' she says. 'But now I'm craving a cigarette sooo badly. I keep on looking at [the bump] and thinking 'Okay, you're formed!' And Billie, 25, says chatting to her relatives makes her feel worse.'I speak to most of my family and they say, 'Oh, we smoked through all our pregnancies',' she says. 'And I have to say, 'But you can't do it now'", Beaniecat, Sep. 21, '08
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| • | "Moyles told Billie the event was to be staged at Lydiard Park on May 9 and 10. 'Lydiard Park!' she said. 'I used to smoke there and snog boys there.'", Swindon Advertiser (UK), Mar. 17, '09
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| • | "Having a baby has changed Billie in more ways than one, Laurence says. 'She used to smoke and drink, and she does neither now, although she has the odd roll-up once in a while',", Celebrity-babies.com, Mar. 27, '09
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| • | "Despite having a young son it seems the actress has been unable to kick her smoking habit. She was seen puffing away on a cigarette as she toured day one of the festival", Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 24, '09
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| • | "Billie lit up a cigarette backstage, having left baby Winston at home", Wireimage, Aug. '09
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| • | "What is your greatest vice? BP: 'Roll-up cigarettes and red wine. I didn't smoke through my pregnancy, and I thought I did really well not to for nine months. When Winston was born, I decided I didn't want to smoke cigarettes any more, as they are full of chemicals, so I turned to roll-ups instead. I do love them'", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 25, '10
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| • | "puffed on a cigarette", w/pic, The Sun (UK), Jun. 9, '10
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| • | "prefers a cig to a pipe-r... looks like she's had the puff-ect night out after scooping a top gong at the Glamour Awards...a fag hanging out of her mouth", w/pic dragging, The Sun (UK), Jun. 10, '10
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| • | "Puffing Billie: Toddler gets smoke in his face as actress mum enjoys a roll-up. With her young son only inches away, Billie Piper takes a deep drag on her roll-up and blows smoke in his face. The 27-year-old actress made great play of the fact that she gave up cigarettes while pregnant with Winston, now aged 21 months. But she appeared to be making up for lost time during a visit to a pub garden with her actor husband Laurence Fox and another couple. Initially, either Fox or his wife would take turns looking after Winston while the other moved away to puff on a roll-up. But as the afternoon progressed they became more relaxed and eventually, as the picture shows, made no effort to distance the toddler from the tobacco cloud.", w/pics, Daily Mail (UK), Jul. 22, '10
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| • | "appears to blow smoke near her young son's face - in a photo that has outraged health campaigners... seemed shockingly unaware of the dangers of second-hand smoke to children... was puffing roll-ups made with what appeared to be black liquorice-flavoured papers" w/pics, The Sun (UK), Jul. 22, '10
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| • | "A rep for British actress Billie Piper has hit back at anti-smoking campaigners who blasted the star after she was photographed lighting up near her son, insisting the images are 'misleading'. ... the actress' spokesperson insists Piper was not as close to her son as the pictures appear to show. A statement reads, 'Billie is a responsible parent who values her child's health above all else. Though a smoker, she is careful to only do so outside and with consideration to those around her. Due to the angle from which it is taken, the picture is misleading. It does not give a true sense of perspective in relation to the proximity of her son'", Entertainment Daily, Jul. 23, '10
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| • | "Puffin' Billie... has a puff leaving Madonna's 52nd birthday bash", w/pic, The Sun (UK), Aug. 16, '10
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| • | "Puffing Billie: Ms Piper on the cigarettes again after partying with Madonna. She came in for a fog of criticism last month for smoking round her son Winston - but it's not been enough to make Billie Piper stub out her habit. The Secret Diary Of A Call Girl star, 27, couldn't wait to spark up when she left Madonna's 52nd party at London's swanky Shoreditch House private members' club on Saturday night... despite club possessing a smoking terrace on the roof, the actress and her Lewis star husband Laurence lit up their cigarettes hand-rolled with liqourice flavoured paper as they left in front of waiting photographers", w/pics, Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 16, '10
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| • | "In recent weeks she has been spotted chain smoking and was pictured flashing her bare chest onstage at a gay nightclub", website, when?
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| • | "After bumming a cigarette from a music journalist on the harbour cruise boat (unfortunately not the Silk Cuts she favours), she'd only taken a few drags before announcing to standers-by, 'I'm going inside. My nipples are as hard as bullets'", website, when?
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| • | "matching her nail varnish to her tobacco pouch", w/pic, The Sun (UK), Aug. 13, '11
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| • | "clutches tightly onto her cigarettes and tobacco pouch while running errands... gripping onto a packet of cigarettes... clutching onto her cigarettes and tobacco pouch... did decide to match her green nail varnish to her tobacco pouch", w/pics, Daily Mail (UK), Aug. 15, '11
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