The real-life Belle du Jour, Dr. Brooke Magnanti, was interviewed by Billie Piper last night. We learned that Magnanti's sex work was done in part to fund her ambition of becoming not an actress, model or even writer...but a physicist.

Secret Diaries of a Call Girl portrays the sexy, glamorous, and sometimes dangerous world of being a high-class hooker in London. Whether you totally buy into any of that or you think the franchise wrongfully glamorizes prostitution, the interesting part of the whole story is that it's pretty much entirely true.