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Billie Leigh Shepherd (
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Faiers; born 15 January 1990) is an English television personality, known for her appearances on the
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reality series ''
The Only Way Is Essex ''The Only Way Is Essex'' (often abbreviated as ''TOWIE'' ) is a British reality television series based in Brentwood, Essex, England. It shows "real people in modified situations, saying unscripted lines but in a structured way." Originally b ...
'' from 2010 to 2016 and ''Sam & Billie: The Mummy Diaries'' from 2016 to 2021.


Career

In 2010, Shepherd began appearing in the
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(now
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) series ''
The Only Way Is Essex ''The Only Way Is Essex'' (often abbreviated as ''TOWIE'' ) is a British reality television series based in Brentwood, Essex, England. It shows "real people in modified situations, saying unscripted lines but in a structured way." Originally b ...
''. She made a brief appearance in the first series before becoming a regular cast member in
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. Shepherd departed the show during the eighteenth series in 2016. Following her departure from ''The Only Way Is Essex'', she began appearing in ''Sam Faiers: The Mummy Diaries'' (later renamed ''Sam & Billie: The Mummy Diaries'' in series 3) which documents Shepherd and her sister Sam bringing up their children. In October 2020, it was announced that Shepherd would be competing in the thirteenth series of the ITV competition programme ''
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''. She was paired with
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. Shepherd withdrew from the competition on 6 February 2021 after suffering a head injury in training. Shepherd's work includes advertising products on social media as an
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. In May 2022 she was added to the UK's Advertising Standards Agency list of "non-compliant social media influencers" for improperly advertising products without adding requisite "ad" tags or labels to the adverts.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shepherd, Billie 1990 births English television personalities Living people Television personalities from Essex