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Billie slams X Factor teens

BILLIE PIPER has hit out at The X Factor’s new policy of allowing contestants as young as 14, slamming the decision as “slightly greedy”.

Billie was herself a teen pop sensation when she became the youngest ever pop artist to debut at number one with ‘Because We Want To’. She was just 15.

But she now says that she thinks the entry age for The X Factor should be 18.

“Your voice will be better then anyway, be more developed. You’ll be slightly wiser and maybe more well adjusted and ready for it,” she said.

“As a teenager you’re so full of teenage angst anyway. I don’t think it’s good. I don’t think it’s a great idea. I think it’s slightly greedy.”

And the new, mature Billie – starring as high-class hooker Belle De Jour on Thursday in Secret Diary Of A Call Girl – reveals that she has no acting projects lined up an is thinking about having children of her own.

“I really think I’ll have a family and relax, but then I’d probably be, you know, a really full-on mum,” she said.

Source: The Sun