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May
1, 2003:
'Metro' - Bitching begins as
jungle takes its toll / Toyah in
the papers/Newsybits |
Metro:
Bitching begins as jungle takes
its toll
Oz test: Phil Tufnell
checks Toyah Willcox's locks for
ticks while Wayne Sleep dons
waffles and takes on the rats.
'The
Metro' today reports on the
bitching and backbiting that has
taken the place of all the calm
in the Australian outback.
Daily
Record: Danniella remains
very emotional but I don't think
she'll quit. Toyah Willcox has
sort of adopted her as a
surrogate daughter and the pair
of them have had a few
heart-to-hearts. It's an unusual
friendship. Toyah is an
earth-mother figure who is so
clean- living she doesn't even
drink coffee, while Danniella is
recovering after a
well-publicised cocaine problem.
Also
from the 'Daily Record': On TV
there is no greater sin than
being boring - and the celebs are
getting bored, of that there is
no doubt. When Phil returned from
washing his shorts in the stream,
at least three campers eagerly
demanded to know if he'd enjoyed
himself.
To
liven things up, they decided to
rehearse a scene from the Liza
Minelli musical Cabaret, with
Toyah as Sally Bowles and Wayne
directing. I must admit, the
rehearsals looked fantastic, with
the other eight shimmying and
high-kicking in the chorus lines
as Toyah belted out her lines.
But I guess there must have been
copyright problems with
broadcasting the music, because
the sound was muted every time
Toyah started to song. Unless, of
course, ITV2 producers didn't
dare broadcast her famous punk
bellow before the watershed.
Ireland
Online: Singer Toyah Willcox
belted out Life Is A Cabaret
while Wayne tap-danced in a
performance the dancer described
as How to ruin 10 careers
in two minutes.
The
performance earned the gang one
bottle of wine although
cricketer Phil Tufnell, chef
Anthony Worrall Thompson and
designer Linda Barker begged for
more.
News.com.au:
Brits tune to stranded stars in
bush
A Posse of stranded
British celebrities roughing it
in the jungle on the
NSW-Queensland border are proving
to be the real Big Brother of
reality TV ratings.
An
average of 10 million British
viewers are switching on nightly
to the second season of "I'm
a Celebrity Get Me Out of
Here" which is being filmed
in a remote rainforest near Mount
Warning.
"Murwillumbah
is being watched by
millions," quipped show
publicist Richard Squire
today.
The
whopping 46 per cent audience
share for Celebrity dwarfs the
2.2 million people who tuned into
Channel Ten's Big Brother last
Sunday. The two reality shows are
being filmed within an hour's
drive of each other.
Thanks
to Michael Cooney for the
'Metro' scan.
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May
1, 2003: 'ITV
Teletext' - What next for the 10
celebs? |
It didn't take long for
the cracks to show in I'm A
Celebrity... After
three days in the wet, muddy
Queensland jungle our ten
celebrities are starting to turn
against each other. The food is
bad, it's getting boring and they
are homesick.
Danniella
Westbrook is already on the brink
of quitting. TV Plus looks in its
crystal ball and makes some
celebrity predictions...
Prediction
One: Wayne Sleep will be first or
second to get nominated for
eviction by the public next week.
He is very touchy and a show-off
and doesn't really fit in with
the others. The show's producers
are not showing him in a good
light.
Prediction
Two: Danniella Westbrook won't
quit the show but she will be
eliminated pretty quickly,
probably midway through next
week.
Prediction
Three: Weathergirl Sian Lloyd is
not coming across very well. She
has complained about desperately
needing coffee in the mornings
but hasn't emerged as a
personality. She will be an early
evictee.
Prediction
Four: The eventual winner will
either be crazy ex-cricketer Phil
Tufnell or top chef Antony
Worrall Thompson. The viewers
already love "court
jester" Tuffers who chose
food over wine on his birthday.
Wozza is calm under pressure and
a really likeable normal guy.
Prediction
Five: Toyah Willcox is going to
have a major bust-up with one or
more of the jungle dwellers this
week. Before leaving for
Queensland she admitted she
"doesn't suffer fools
gladly" and on Tuesday said
she is really missing her
husband. Toyah, 44, loves taking
long hot baths at home and
washing in a pool is bound to
drive her mad eventually.
Prediction
Six: We foretell that ex-Corrie
actor Chris Bisson is going to
fall for stunning model Catalina
Guirado in a big way. She has
already admitted she flirts with
anyone on two legs (including
women). He says he's had several
relationships that have just
fizzled out. Could the rainforest
work its magic? We reckon it
will.
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May
1, 2003:
'London Evening Standard' - On
The Couch |
London
Evening Standard: On The Couch
Psychologist Oliver
James analyses the show The
usual psychobabble, about those
involved in a reality TV show,
from the 'London Evening
Standard' today. Oliver James has
this to say about Toyah:
TOYAH
WILLCOX is keen to be the Earth
Mother in touch with her
feelings. She speaks with
tremendous earnestness and wants
to be seen as having put her
attention-seeking punk days
behind her. So why's she there?
Thanks
to Michael Cooney for
this.
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May
1, 2003:
'This Is Worcester' - Bridge too
far for our Toyah |
Pershore pop star Toyah
Willcox narrowly escaped the
latest in a series of terrifying
challenges on I'm a Celebrity Get
Me Out of Here. Presenters
Ant and Dec whittled away the
celebrity contestants to face the
Bridge of Doom Challenge until it
was neck and neck between our
Toyah and ex-footballer and
Gladiators presenter John
Fashanu.
The
80s punk princess looked relieved
when it was finally announced
that Fash would be taking on the
challenge to cross the precarious
rope bridge above the jungle
canopy.
He
will take on the challenge later
today in order to win food for
his starving fellow celebs.
So
far, Fash has had ants in his
pants for the first challenge and
model Catalina has waded in
waters filled with not very
deadly fake crocodiles and Wayne
had to crawl through tanks filled
with 300 jungle rats with waffles
strapped to his head.
Until
yesterday, Toyah had done little
to pull herself out of obscurity
in the show.
However,
her performance of Life is a
Cabaret, accompanied by a tap
dancing Wayne Sleep earned the
gang a bottle of wine and some
chocolate buttons.
The
dancer described the performance
as: "How to ruin 10 careers
in two minutes".
But
one bottle of wine was not enough
for cricketer Phil Tufnell, chef
Anthony Worrall Thompson and
designer Linda Barker who begged
for more, but their pleas fell on
deaf ears.
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April
30, 2003:
Toyah - Leader for the day! |
Phil
Tufnell named Toyah as camp
leader of the day with the words,
"I think she will get us
moving forward." And
within minutes Toyah was busy
organising and hoping that it
would be a day of friendship.
It
has to be said that she did keep
herself seriously busy for most
of yesterday; stocking up the
camp with wood, keeping the area
looking good and tidy, and
issuing instructions to the
others in a no-nonsense, firm but
fair, manner. She did really well
considering there is two people
stirring things in the bush. The
jungle would be a better place if
one of the jungle mates headed
East:)
Toyah
also found the time yestreday to
chat to Linda about being in her
40s and life with Robert. But
every time she was about to say
anything interesting the sound
was cut or there would be a
switch to another conversation.
Toyah and Wayne also reprised Cabaret
for the other jungle residents,
which can only be described as,
interesting!
The
highlight of Toyah's
"leader" day was, for
the other contestants at least,
successfully negotiating wine and
chocolate for everyone. As John
Fashanu said, "she did
good"!
This
evening Toyah narrowly missed
doing her first "Bush Trial
Tucker", but the cruel old
British public decided that John
Fashanu, who suffers from
vertigo, should do the 'ladder of
doom' trial
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April
30, 2003: 'I'm
A Celebrity' Toyah-related
newsybits & pieces - Issue 10 |
Channel 4
Teletext 'Sauce', I'm A Celebrity
... Chit Chat!: It's only been on
for a day but we're already
hooked on IACGMOOH!. We can smell
the fights to come. We're buying
bets on how long it'll be before
Toyah biffs Sian. She's got more
layers than a teee trunk, that
weather girl. As we predicted we
loathe Catalina. But we thank her
for demonstrating so clearly the
powers of airbrushing...miaow!
Dippy Darren Day describes Toyah
as "looking a bit sour"
in 'The Sun' today!
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April
30, 2003: 'I'm
A Celebrity...' - Recent cast
pictures |
The contestants in their
jungle outfits, 26th April 2003.
Toyah, Antony, Sian, John, and
the others taking a boat trip to
a Gold Coast island for survival
training, 27th April 2003.
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April
30, 2003:
'This Is Worcester' - Toyah
misses life at home |
Toyah misses life at
home Just
three days into the I'm a
Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here
experience Toyah Willcox is
missing home.
But
the 80s popstar, who has a house
in Pershore, was
uncharacteristically quiet
throughout last night's
episode.
But
she did say that the experience
had so far been "better than
I thought it would
be".
Bookmakers
William Hill have given odds of
11-2 for Toyah to win the
two-week show.
On
last night's programme, viewers
saw the team celebrate cricketer
Phil Tufnell's birthday by making
him leader for the day.
The
group, led by Toyah, sang him
Happy Birthday and presented him
with a crown and staff made from
leaves and wood.
The
highlight of last night's
programme was the admission by
Essex model Daniella Westbrook
that she wanted to go home to be
with her family.
It
might have been sparked by Toyah
saying "I miss my
husband", as they sat in the
camp.
One
thing is for certain, Daniella
has the daggers out for one of
the team, but she has not
revealed which celebrity is
bugging her.
It
could well be Toyah, who has
already had a spot of tension
with model Catalina.
Catalina
made herself popular by
completing her Bushtucker Trial,
which saw her wade through a
crocodile-infested swamp to
release weighted down stars to
win food. There was no real
danger though - the crocs' jaws
were taped shut.
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