Billie Piper has said she felt like a “charlatan” when she was a pop star in her teens. She told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that acting was always her passion and she felt she had limited musical abilities. Piper, 38, who now works as an actress, shot to fame in her teenage years with hits including Because We Want To, and lived in London away from her parents for several years before turning 18. (Isabel Infantes/PA) She said she felt like a “salesperson for other people’s music”. “I always felt like a charlatan because I loved singing but I didn’t have the strongest voice, I didn’t write songs, I didn’t play or write music,” she added.