Billie Piper has admitted that some of her neighbours think she is a prostitute in real life.

The former Doctor Who actress plays call girl Belle De Jour on ITV2 show Secret Diary Of A Call Girl and told Marie Claire: “It’s funny. When Laurence and I go out into the countryside, I think a few of the older locals actually believe I’m a whore.

‘They love Laurence because he’s in Lewis, and his fan club are basically in their mid-60s and upwards. They love him. It’s sickening.”

She added: “They follow him around, they want to mother him. I mean, there are places he can’t go – like Mecca Bingo or the bowling green – but he loves it.

“Then they look at me and are like, ‘That slag! How could you dirty yourself with her? She’s corrupted you’.”

Piper gave birth to her first child last year and on the conception of her son, she said: “It was literally jet-lag sex. You do make an active decision that you’re not going to use condoms or whatever. Then there’s that ‘I am so in love, I just want to have your baby!’.

“It’s such a hot thing, it’s so gorgeous. ‘We fell in love, I want you to impregnate me!’. I don’t know what’s not hot about that. And also, making a child in the throes of love instead of, ‘Oh, I suppose we should knock one out’.”