# Whovians: Are Billie Piper and Catherine Tate supposed to be attractive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387 "2008-11-12T18:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/61 "2008-11-13T23:04:35Z")
> [@CaerieD](#): > > Are you maybe referring to Mos Def who played [Ford Prefect](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0080049/)? Because [Arthur](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0293509/) was quite white. Oh good lord! I had Ford Prefect in my brain and for some reason typed Arthur Dent. Of course I meant Mos Def. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/62 "2008-11-13T23:04:58Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I was going to say Catherine Tate is not really that great looking. In the show she basically looks like a frumpy not completely unattractive, slightly bottomheavy middle aged woman. [Then I found this photo and had to reassess.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/cybergypsy/522319966/) Yeah, that’s a nice dress. [I can see why you like it.](http://roflrazzi.com/2008/11/12/celebrity-pictures-boobs-distraction/) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/63 "2008-11-13T23:08:33Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > Yeah, that’s a nice dress. [I can see why you like it.](http://roflrazzi.com/2008/11/12/celebrity-pictures-boobs-distraction/) This lol thing is getting out of hand. now there’s a lolcelebs??? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/64 "2008-11-13T23:09:26Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > You’ve done that a few times in this thread. Nice to know you _know_ it’s a cheap shot, I s’pose. All my shots are cheap. I can’t afford better. ETA: Irish women, on the other hand… But I was raised to be scared of them. (thinking) Which may make them even more attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/65 "2008-11-13T23:34:38Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Irish women, on the other hand… But I was raised to be scared of them. (thinking) Which may make them even more attractive. 😃 Dream on, my friend. Dream on. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/66 "2008-11-13T23:37:50Z")
Due to the location of the Isle of Man I am quite blessed to share this Isle with a lot of Irish women 😃 (And English, and Scotish, and Polish, and so on and so on) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/67 "2008-11-14T00:50:04Z")
I’d forgotten Georgia Moffett’s Jenny, mostly because that episode was so overblown: still, she does scrub up nicely. _And_ her BBC TV SF DNA is impeccable: she’s the product of a cross-breeding experiment between Peter Davison {the 5th Doctor} and Sandra Dickinson {Trillian}. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/68 "2008-11-14T00:52:48Z")
> [@Kaio](#): > > Yeah, that’s a nice dress. [I can see why you like it.](http://roflrazzi.com/2008/11/12/celebrity-pictures-boobs-distraction/) They’re either inside trying to get out, or outside trying to get in. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/69 "2008-11-14T13:52:48Z")
I’d shag either/both of them but thats what desperation does to a man. Neither of them are redhot but I’d prefer Tate to Piper. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/70 "2008-11-14T18:03:56Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > These days, she’d no doubt be considered flat chested, fat legged and big hipped. Mind you, I am the same age as her and we share the same body type. I’ve never had any complaints 😃 Pics? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387/71 "2008-11-14T18:40:51Z")
I don’t think Billie Piper’s ever supposed to have been considered red hot, I think she’s just supposed to be the everyday, girl-next-door, go-out-for-a-curry-and-a-few-beers-and-see-what-happens kind of girl. She’s got a decent, curvy figure and a very naughty grin though, so I can see why people would be attracted to her. I know someone who went to school with her, and there were always plenty of rumours flying around about her once her pop “career” started. When I see that grin, I can sometimes easily believe them… Catherine Tate isn’t remotely attractive - way too “Chav without the Burberry”. Frema Agyeman, OTOH, is _smokin’_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whovians-are-billie-piper-and-catherine-tate-supposed-to-be-attractive/472387.md?page=3)