New Year's Eve wedding for Billie Piper
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New Year's Eve wedding for Billie Piper
A host of celebrities from the big and small screen have turned out for the wedding of Billie Piper and fellow actor Laurence Fox.The 25-year-old turned up five minutes early for the ceremony at the Parish Church of St Mary's in Easebourne, West Sussex.Dr Who star David Tennant, Fox's co-star in TV show Lewis, Kevin Whately, Piper's ex-husband Chris Evans and Fox's father and uncle, the actors James and Edward Fox, were among those attending.Piper - who appeared in Dr Who with Tennant - wore a low-cut ivory formal wedding dress with a black coat draped over her shoulders.She was accompanied by four bridesmaids in short purple dresses.The wedding took place about half a mile from the couple's £750,000 home in Midhurst.The 29-year-old bridegroom arrived 45 minutes before the ceremony was due to start.Flanked by friends, he made the short walk from the White Horse pub to the church past the throng of photographers and reporters.He thanked the photographers, who wished him good luck and when asked how he was feeling he replied "very good".Tennant, dressed in a flamboyant burgundy velvet suit, arrived at the church at the same time as Whately, to cheers from the public lining the road.Radio and TV star Evans arrived with his wife Natasha Shishmanian, but then decided to walk across the road to the local pub.James Fox waved to the crowd as he went into the church, followed by Evans and his wife.Fox and Piper met last December when they performed together in a stage production of Christopher Hampton's Treats.Piper became the youngest female singer to have a No 1 single with Because We Want To in 1998, at the age of 15.After her pop career dwindled, she turned to acting, her original ambition.She recently signed up to star as Belle de Jour in a second series of the ITV2 drama Secret Diary Of A Call Girl.Fox is best known as the sidekick of Whately's Lewis in the spin-off from Inspector Morse.He played a house guest in Gosford Park, Captain Tom Willis in Colditz and the Prince of Wales in Whatever Love Means.© Independent Television News Limited 2007. All rights reserved.
ITN | December 31, 2007
