Billie Piper shot t fame as a 16-year-old (Matt Crossick/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Billie Piper has said she would not “subject” her children to some of the situations she experienced as a 16-year-old. The Olivier Award-winning actress, 38, shot to fame as a teenage pop star with her debut single Because We Want To in 1998. Writing in The Big Issue magazine’s Letter To My Younger Self, she recalled how she often found herself in “very strange, very adult situations” due to her success.