The Secret Diary of a Call Girl, being screened on ITV2, is a series based on the blog and then best-selling book of a prostitute who called herself Belle de Jour (a reference to the famous 1967 movie about a call-girl starring Catherine Deneuve).
The ITV series stars Billie Piper, who manages to glam up the call-girl profession. Some of the episodes are a little seedy, but they are soft-focus risque. Belle de Jour started her blog in 2003 and quickly built up a huge on-line following, with astute publishers offering to publish her writing in a book form.
You can read the blog here. I understand that much of what is in the book isn't in the blog and vice versa. For an idea of her writing style see the early archives circa 2003 (she stopped doing call-girl work when her books became successful). Despite her subject matter, her writing is good, and the blog is a lot more interesting than the TV series. Belle de Jour has also managed to do what few other bloggers have, which is to keep her identity secret, despite success.
If you wish to watch the ITV series online, click here.
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