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Billie Piper says 'super bright' former classmate Amy Winehouse was bullied as a pupil at Sylvia Young theatre school because she 'liked to push buttons and do weird stuff'


The actress, 41, said late Back to Black singer Winehouse was 'unlike any other girls' at the Sylvia Young theatre School - but revealed 'not many' of the other pupils took kindly to her.

Piper and Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27, both attended the independent performing arts school, which is named after its founder and principal, Sylvia Young OBE. The British star told Jessie and Lennie Ware's Table Manners podcast she had moved to London at 12 years old to attend the Marble Arch based school The actress has been busy promoting Scoop, which dramatises the interview between Prince Andrew and Emily Maitlis, in which she plays BBC producer Sam McAlister (pictured in film)

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