[Red Moon]

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

[Matt]

Rich coming from her...

...some of the best singers this series have been 14/15!

(BTW shouldn't this be in the X Factor forum? lol)

[xDramatick]

She does have a point though.
Her own later music did sound better to earlier stuff.

It'd be interesting to see her back on the music scene.

[MarkWaldorf]

I agree with her. Being that young with the amount of pressure they'll have with the live shows and such, will they be able to cope with it? And then there's the papers, they're always writing stories on contestants. I don't think it's a good idea.

[duaxeallowed]

i love billie piper

i can see where shes coming from, but i think 16 is fair enough

[Ruth*Star]

I thought the age limit of 16 was alright, i didn't see the need to lower it, i understand where Billi is coming from, the pressure and the criticism and if they get told no it will tear them apart.