

She thanks Belle for her tutelage with a Balenciaga. This season she has taken on a young woman named Bambi (Ashley Madekwe), who hits the luxury retail market as soon as her calendar starts filling up. Who could ever know how Carrie Bradshaw paid her Barneys bills, but at least “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” isn’t afraid to follow the money.īelle’s got bucks, but she doesn’t have female friends she has protégées. Belle lives in a pretty apartment with modernist furnishings and a Domino magazine palette this is about prostitution in the name of better design. She is in it to live well, to upgrade, presumably, from shopping at Marks & Spencer to having a personal shopper at Harvey Nichols. Belle (Billie Piper) is actually someone named Hannah, a verbally agile college graduate for whom the notion of a day job never took.Īs Belle established during Season 1, she isn’t in the flesh game simply to make a living (or feed nasty habits). This British series, which begins its second season on Sunday on Showtime, is based on a book derived from a blog by an anonymous writer who called herself Belle, the name deployed by the show’s heroine during her working hours.

9, we’ll have to make do with “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” for singularly obvious insights into the world of big-money, private-client, always-keep-some-Veuve-Clicquot-in-the-fridge sex work.
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This little tid-bit was enough to whet the appetite for the first full episode watch Secret Diary of a Call Girl every Monday at 10 PM on Showtime and turn back to IGN TV every week for the full review.Until we have a memoir from Ashley Dupré, the young woman who immortalized former Gov.
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The two girls tittered on, going back and forth with stories and troubles until the 24th minute and then Piper let out a series of final questions about the sex and the scandal and then it ended with a photo shoot and the preview for the actual premiere of the third season. As for the cash, she made upwards of £300 per customer (nearly $600) for one go and over two grand for an all nighter. She said that she did nothing to glamorize or promote prostitution, that she only recorded some of her more comical moments and put them online to see if anyone else thought they were funny. "Why would you glamorize prostitution?" "Do you recommend this type of lifestyle?" "How much did you make?" And Magnanti answered them all with ease. Piper's questions were honest and fair and she didn't dance around the unpleasantries She asked all the questions begged of her over the past three years. They threw in a few clips from the show here and there, but most of the episode was focused on the two women having a nice chat on a couch in an average-looking hotel room. It was reminiscent of the series' opening where they reveal parts of Piper's body as she dresses for a night of "work." It wasn't a subtle parallel, but it made the interview feel a bit more glamorous than what it surely was. They showed glances of her body and inched over her face before they showed her whole frame. Magnanti's entrance was the most organized (edited) segment. Either way, Piper is an engaging performer and even a perfunctory interview made for good viewing. Her vulnerable state and unkempt appearance kept things light - whether this was intended or if it was all that the producers could throw together before Magnanti got eaten alive by the British tabloids is still yet to be seen. Piper was alone for the first five minutes and spoke earnestly about her nerves and previous interactions with Magnanti. The casual interview took place in the unnamed hotel featured in the first episode of the series. Then Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" played over and the stage was set. It opened with Piper in a taxi, first with a dubbed voiceover and then the show's trademark aside where she directed her comments directly to the audience. Showtime and ITV did the best they could to wrangle the media storm into this 25-minute interview and the blunt and unrefined tape was interesting and refreshing. Magnanti hid behind 'Belle' for nearly six years before she was forced into the open, and her abrupt entrance into the limelight cast a bit of a shadow over the series.
