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May
30, 2003:
'Heat' - Reviews: The Jungle Book |
I'm A
Celebrity Get me Out Of Here! -
The Inside Story by Trevor Baker Events
from the Australian jungle are
still fairly fresh in our minds,
but no self-respecting Reality TV
show can be without its own
companion and, fortunately, this
particular guide is not only
revealingly in-depth, it's also
humourously written. Baker was
granted full access to the camp
(when the celebs chatted by the
campfire he was probably hiding
behind a bush, frantically
scribbling down every piece of
juicy gossip for our benefit). He
witnessed every pout Catalina
made and every air punch Fash
threw to psych himself up before
his record number of Bush Tucker
Trials. There's plenty of
behind-the-scenes info, plus fact
files on each of the contestants,
although by now these are a bit
pointless, as we already know
more about the ten celebrities
than we ever thought possible.
There's also a lot of trivial
stuff about the camp itself -
you'll no doubt be fascinated to
read how many litres of paint
(500) or kilometres of wire (20)
went into the camp's
construction, and you can even
read the list of rules the celebs
had to live by. A fab souvenir
for those who were glued to their
TV for the duration of the show.
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May
30, 2003:
'I'm A Celebrity - Reunion'
- Toyah titbits! |
Toyah,
pictured arriving at, and
leaving, the I'm A Celebrity
... Get Me Out Of Here! Reunion
earlier this month in London. Looks
like lots of goodies were given
out to the celebs, as Toyah seems
just slightly weighed down with
all those bags.
You
can now watch Toyah's full
appearance/interview from the
'Reunion' show, over at William's
'Brave New World' fansite. Hop on
over, by clicking the pictures,
to see Toyah giving John Fashanu
a good telling off!!
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May
23, 2003: 'I'm
A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of
Here! Reunion' |
Toyah,
and all nine of the other
celebrity junglmates, guested on
Wednesday evening's IAC ...
GMOOH! Reunion. Each were
interviewed briefly about their
time in the Australian Bush. Toyah,
who came on along with Chriss
Bisson and Sian Lloyd, looked
great.
Presenter,
Dec said: "Before we get
going, Toyah I want a word with
you. I've got a real bone to pick
with you!"
"Why?
What've I done?", asked a
smiling TW.
Dec:
"Before you went in you said
we were going to get a right
eyeful. We were gonna get a
streak off you."
Toyah:
"It was too cold. If it was
warmer I would've done it. I'd
have been naked the whole time,
whether it scared people or
not!"
They
then showed the clip where, while
Toyah was off valiantly wading in
a sludge pit earning the group
meals, John Fashanu had commented
on Toyah "going naked",
and said he wouldn't like her to
as "it's not exactly Britt
Eckland"!!!
Toyah,
who it seemed, was seeing the
comment for the first time,
didn't look too pleased. She
said: "I'd just like to say,
you know Fash and verbal
diarrhoea go hand-in-hand. And he
wouldn't know a real woman if one
slapped him in the face!"
"Oh
dear! Move on!," muttered
both Dec and Ant.
Toyah
also went on to back up Chris
Bisson after he was accused by
Tara P-T of being boring.
"He was fabulous in there,
and he kept squirting Catalina
with his gun, which she didn't
like!"
A
final Bush Tucker Trial, voted on
by the viewers, saw Catalina,
with a little help from Ant &
Dec, dunking her head into
various tubs of insects and bugs,
then there was just time to
announce that the total raised
for charity was a whopping
£1,073,103.
A
fine way to bring down the
curtain on the
"phenomenon" that was I'm
A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of
Here! 2.
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May
23, 2003:
'Salisbury Journal' - Celebrity
Toyah gives thousands to local
charity |
A star from I'm a
Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of
Here donated thousands of pounds
to a Salisbury charity on TV last
night.
Toyah Willcox, who
braved two weeks in the
Australian jungle in front of
audiences of millions, appeared
on the hit show's reunion
yesterday and announced that
Inspire, which is based at
Salisbury District Hospital, was
her chosen charity.
Each
celebrity contestant in the show
named a charity to receive the
phone-vote cash and, each time
the public voted for them, a sum
went towards to their selected
good cause.
Toyah,
who was the sixth contestant
voted out of the jungle, has
well-established links with
Salisbury.
She
lived in Broad Chalke for many
years and has been involved with
the charity Inspire since it was
founded in 1985. She is also a
patron and supporter of the
Salisbury Festival.
Toyah's
most challenging task during her
time in the jungle came when she
had to don a pair of goggles and
enter a stinking swamp to collect
stars that were hidden at the
bottom of the foul pond, in order
to earn food for her camp-mates.
She managed to retrieve five of
the stars.
After
the ordeal, which left Declan
Donnelly, one of the watching
hosts of the show, retching, she
said: "It was the grossest
thing I have ever
experienced.
"I
would actually like colonic
irrigation."
Toyah,
who was born with a twisted spine
and hip, has not forgotten her
Salisbury connections and invited
the director of Inspire, Robert
Morgan, to the live show last
night in London.
Mr
Morgan said: "We are
absolutely delighted and thrilled
to be the chosen charity.
"Toyah
has been associated with Inspire
for a long time, almost since we
began.
"She
has been brilliant and a stalwart
supporter.
"This
money will help many of our
pro-jects, including the Freehand
System, which gives power and
grip to paralysed arms and
hands."
Inspire
funds research on life
improvements for spinal injury
sufferers.
Many
paraplegics, those who cannot
walk, and tetraplegics, those who
are paralysed in all four limbs,
have benefited from the charity's
research.
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