Billie Piper tastes the high life

The Secret Diary Of Call Girl star got a taste of the high life in the shoes - coupled with black socks - at Glorious Goodwood in West Sussex.It's a good job her husband Laurence Fox is a tall guy or she'd have towered over him in these heels as the pair were shown around the paddock....

Note to scruffy Billie Piper

Raceday fashion is usually about big hats and summery dresses.But Billie Piper got it terribly wrong on day five of Glorious Goodwood today.She appeared to have taken a leaf out of the late actress Judy Garland's book by wearing thick black socks with wedges.Garland wore white socks with the famous red slippers when she played Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz in 1939.Billie wore a baggy, floral dress that came down to her shins. It had large pockets and bizarre black and white, swirly buttons.The former Doctor Who star, 28, paired the ensemble with a black clutch and pale yellow nailpolish.Her hair...

Amy and Billie shared their schooldays

THEY were happy and talented schoolmates pictured one bright day in 1997.Within a few years, two were hugely famous and successful, but while one found happiness and stability, the other saw her life spiral into tragedy.Amy Winehouse, who died aged 27 on Saturday, was in the year below Swindon-born star Billie Piper at the Sylvia Young Theatre School.Sylvia Young paid tribute to Amy within hours of hearing the news, describing her former pupil as a wild spirit who was her own person. Like former Bradon Forest pupil Billie, Amy spent her early teens at the theatre school, where she constantly sang...