As odd as this Olympian-turned-call girl story is, many will not stigmatize Ms. Hamilton nearly as critically as those athletes that have caused shame through cheating within their sport by using performance enhancing drugs.

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So let me begin, though, by seeing -- and then what I'll do is I'll call on a boy and then a girl and then -- so we'll go back and forth, so that you know it's fair.

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Prior to Christmas, a story broke of former U.S. Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton outing herself as having briefly worked as a call girl with a Las Vegas-based company.

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Stacie Passon's Concussion, about a woman in a lesbian relationship who becomes a call girl, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts's Toy's House, about three unhappy teenage boys who flee to the wilderness, are also in the running.

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There are many who have criticised me for being what they call a poster girl for the army - very flattering to be seen as a poster girl for anything at this time of life - but I think the truth is I am very fond of the army, because I always thought of it as my father's army.

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Piper, 29, also gained acclaim for ITV's Secret Diary of a Call Girl, in which she played the high-class London escort Belle de Jour.

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He has also acted opposite Piper in the follow-up, The Shadow in the North, and in ITV2's Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

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As the pickpocket defies a law-and-order campaign to ply his trade, he despairs of his solitude and takes up with a call girl (Hao Hongjian), whose own deceptions are a sign of the times.

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