When teen pop sensation Billie Piper married TV and radio star Chris Evans, 17 years her senior, many feared it was the beginning of the end.
Billie – then just 18 – had found instant fame at 15 as the youngest ever singer to enter the charts at No1 with her debut single Because We Want To, in 1998.
Her success, and the punishing schedule that came with it, had led to a mental health battle and an eating disorder. She once admitted collapsing after living on “just Diet Coke and Marlboro Lights” for days.
And her relationship with Virgin Radio breakfast DJ Evans, then 35, had developed in a whirl of parties and lengthy drinking sessions.
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