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May
6, 2003: 'The
Sun' - Dear Toyah : Wish You Were
Here |
Dear
celebrities - The nation is glued
to the action on ITVs
Im A Celebrity, Get Me Out
Of Here! But back home it is a
trying time for the friends and
family of the ten celebs. Unable
to communicate with them, they
can only watch and wait as their
loved ones endure the trials and
tribulations thousands of miles
away in the shows jungle
camp in north east
Australia. TV host
and former singer Toyah
Willcoxs hubby, rock
guitarist Robert Fripp, 48
writes:
Dear
Toyah
I
loved your Cabaret act with Wayne
it was a great skit.
I
know you havent got a
malicious bone in your body so
watch out for some of your
inmates.
Your
friend Wayne has been bitching
with Sian and Danniella about
some of the others.
This
is the longest weve gone
without speaking in 16 years of
marriage and I cant wait to
be with you.
Ive
made plans for our wedding
anniversary on May 16 and your
birthday on May 18. Ive
replaced the rabbit.
I
know how upset you were that he
died.
I
cant wait to get you out of
that jungle so I can tickle your
feet. I know how much you must be
missing that.
Robert
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May
6, 2003:
Treasure, Trials & Evictions! |
Sian Lloyd has become
the first celebrity to be evicted
by the public from the camp, she
left last night, closely followed
by Danniella Westbrook who left
of her own accord after days of
tears and talk of going. Toyah
has slowly came out of her shell
over the past day or so and seems
to be having fun at last. She
took part in her first
"Treasure Chest" this
morning, along with Catalina, who
suddenly became ill and dizzy
(!!), leaving Toyah with no
option but to carry the chest
back to camp on her ownsome!
If
Toyah survives another viewer
vote it looks like she will be
doing the next "Bush Tucker
Trial". Let's hope it
doesn't involve eating insects or
bugs. Help keep Toyah in by
ringing 090 111 543 09, or
text TOYAH to 87654.
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May
6, 2003:
Toyah in the papers! |
Ickle
Toyah newspaper bits & pieces
from Sunday, Monday and today's
newspapers.
Daily Star
(Sunday 4th May - Group pic):
STAND-OFF: One of the producers
confronts a furious Antony
Worrall Thompson.
Daily
Star (Sunday 4th May):
What'll happen on I'm a Celebrity
2: TOYAH WILLCOX: She's a
successful TV star and the show
may put her back in the pop
charts.
Sunday
People (Sunday 4th May):
CELEB PEOPLE: Ex-pop star Toyah
Willcox, 44, is lonely back in
Blighty and is desperate or more
friends. She said: "I've
quite a lonely, nomadic life and
I despise that intensely."
The
Sun (Monday 5th May): HUNGRY
CAST MUTINY FOR BETTER FOOD
Daily
Record (Tuesday 6th May):
REBEL CHEF BRAVES CREEPY-CRAWLIES
TO WIN FIVE FOOD TREATS: The
ringleader of the rebellion over
food rations braved a pool of
creepy-crawlies to win five meals
for his pals yesterday.
Moaning
telly chef Antony Worrall
Thompson, who had earlier
demanded to see his agent over
the dire conditions in the ITV
reality show, swam through the
murky water to complete the last
bush tucker trial before
evictions began. And the
52-year-old managed to send out a
secret love message to his wife
at the same time. He scrawled
`143' on his hand - a coded
message telling his wife Jay `I
Love You'.
He
returned to the camp smiling and
shouted: "Five, only five
meals I'm afraid. It was in a
pond about 100 feet long with 10
lily pads around it. There was a
big tube underneath the lilies
with snakes and creepy- crawlies
in. You had to pull the tube up
out of the water and put the
stars in a net. The stars were
under the creepy-crawlies. It was
purely time, I think I could have
done ten."
Antony
also escaped a scare during his
task when a venomous snake - who
was not part of the task - fell
into the water. But he walked
away unhurt. Later, the I'm A
Celebrity campers played saucy
party games to take their minds
off the looming eviction. They
passed a homemade ball between
each other in the position
normally used when people snog.
Cricketer
Phil Tufnell, who passed the ball
to Catalina Guirado, said:
"I better brush my teeth.
C'mon then let's play, ooh saucy
Kitty-Cat."
The
ball then fell between Catalina
and Antony and he had to rub her
all the way down her body to get
the ball. But it seemed to be an
experience he enjoyed as he
groaned with pleasure.
Toyah
Willcox then got the ball from
Phil and joked: "Oh that was
so good Phil, it was quite good
with you too Wayne. I like this
game."
ITV
bosses also gave the 10
contestants an extra camera
yesterday so they could make a
video. Wayne Sleep, who directed
the film with Toyah Willcox,
said: "I think the first
thing we have to film is the loo.
"You
have to show things like the
gravel on the floor and how dirty
it is."
They
then showed a variety of daily
events including Catalina Guirado
washing, John Fashanu fetching
drinking water and Wayne Sleep in
bed with Danniella Westbrook. But
things got a bit more lively
after the group passed won two
cakes each in yesterday's chest
challenge. Drinking pals Phil and
Linda Barker collected the chest
from the jungle after swinging
across trees. And after bringing
the trunk back they had to answer
a question.
The
question was: "According to
a recent survey, which superstar
would British women most like to
have breakfast with: A: Sean
Connery or B: George
Clooney."
The
group eventually went for Sean
Connery and got the answer right.
After last night's eviction, one
celebrity will be evicted each
night until the final next
Monday, when the final three
contestants will battle it out.
Cricketer
Phil Tufnell is hot favourite.
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May
6, 2003:
'Evesham Journal' - It is like a
jungle out there... |
Beric and Barbara
Willcox, the parents of actress
Toyah, will be nervously glued to
their television set until the
end of their daughter's trial in
jungle hell. Toyah,
who lives in Pershore, is one of
ten willing victims staring in
the hit ITV show I'm a Celebrity,
Get Me Out of Here.
The
winner will become King or Queen
of the Jungle.
Toyah's
82-year-old father, who also
lives in the Vale with his wife
Barbara, has pledged to give no
interviews until after the show
finishes.
He
did say however: "It's
terrible for parents, you have no
idea what it is like.
"We
won't be able to see Toyah or
contact her ourselves until after
the show, and will be nervously
watching her at each
episode."
Millions
tuned into the first hour and a
half show on Monday which saw
Toyah and her fellow jungle mates
initiated into the creepy crawly
dangerous world of an Australian
rainforest.
Other
celebrities she'll be rubbing
shoulders with until she's voted
out of the camp include the TV
chef Antony Worrall-Thompson,
dancer Wayne Sleep and former
footballer John Fashanu.
She
said on Monday: "I don't
think I want to be touching
spiders or eating bugs." She
was filmed relaxing in her bath
doing "absolutely
nothing" as part of her
training Toyah said.
She
was allowed two luxury items and
she chose her tweezers "to
stop my eyebrows joining
together" and hot
water.
The
idea of the show is to encourage
viewers to ring in to vote to
punish contestants who annoy them
by nominating a celebrity for a
really unpleasant challenge, and
ultimately determine who stay and
who goes.
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May
6, 2003: 'The
Sun' - Stars on £25k for jungle
stint |
Celebrities are being
paid a huge £25,000 each to be
stranded in the jungle, it was
revealed yesterday. The
two-week show is raising cash for
charity and it had been thought
all ten contestants gave their
time for nothing. But the celebs
get money to cover lost earnings
and expenses.
Some
get extra, depending on how
famous they are.
The
10 contestants staged a mutiny on
Sunday after receiving meagre
rations and whinged about
their harsh living conditions.
Psychic
spoon-bender Uri Geller admitted
yesterday he and other
contestants got £15,000 each on
last years first series.
Uri told Channel 4 brekkie show
RI:SE the money had gone up
£10,000 this year.
And,
speaking hours before Sian was
booted off the show, he revealed
they were also being paid bonuses
linked to their celebrity status.
A source at makers Granada said:
The contestants last year
wanted to be paid, so we had to
do it.
It
was harder to get people this
time so the money went up.
They
are getting a lot of free
publicity from the show but if
they carry on moaning that could
backfire.
An
agent of one of the stars
confirmed: Each of the
contestants are receiving a
£25,000 payment.
Granada
refused to comment on contracts.
Danniella Westbrook has moaned
constantly about how hard she
finds it in the camp. Wayne Sleep
has protested he is fed up with
the others leaving him to clean
the primitive bathroom.
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May
5, 2003:
Junglist Warriors - Mutiny in the
Outback! |
Trouble
reared its head yesterday, with
all ten campers threatening to
walk out of the show, and all
hollering "I'm a celebrity,
get me outta here!" while
running across the suspension
bridges in the pitch-black
Australian night. Peace
seems to have been restored today
and the jungle mates have been
amusing themselves by playing
games. Toyah was heard to
enquire, "what's sardines?
Can we play that?" Antony WT
replied, "you have to go
into a cupboard"! For some
reason, in the middle of one of
the games, Toyah found herself
almost between Phil Tufnell's
legs!!
Toyah
chatted with Chris about acting
and his career in Coronation
Street, and also advised him
he should take up singing.
"Anyone can sing", she
told him.
Later,
Toyah overheard Sian
whispering to Wayne about
dishonesty. Toyah said to her,
"If anyone is dishonest with
me I just totally cut them out of
my life."!
Never
a dull moment in the camp at the
moment.
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May
5, 2003: Week
Two - Now voting to keep jungle
mates in |
I'm A
Celebrtiy ... has now entered
its second week, with Antony
Worrall Thompson voted to do the
final, viewer chosen, Bush Tucker
Trial. From
today the jungle mates have to
decide which of them will do the
tasks, and the phone numbers have
reverted to receiving votes for
which contestant viewers want to
stay in the show.
To
date, Toyah still hasn't done a
"Bush Tucker Trial" or
a "Treasure Chest
Hunt". Tonight, or tomorrow
morning if you are in Australia,
Toyah has been saying she thinks
Sian or herself will be first to
be evicted from the camp.
The
number to keep Toyah in is: 090
111 543 09. Or text TOYAH
to 87654.
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May
5, 2003:
'Daily Star' - Toyah Lonely |
Toyah
Willcox opened her heart in a
group therapy session about her
lonely life at home. The
ex-pop star said: "I've qite
a lonely and nomadic life. I
despise that life intensely.
"Trusting
to become friends with people
makes one much happier than
keeping people away fro myou.
"Rather
than return to an empty house I'd
rather return to a house where
people drop in whenever they
want."
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May
5, 2003:
'Ananova' / 'The Scotsman'
-Antony heads food mutiny |
There was mutiny in the
I'm A Celebrity camp when the
hungry star contestants
threatened to walk out in a row
over rations. The
celebrities made a dash across
the bridge leading out of the
Australian forest back to
civilisation. But they were
intercepted by producers of the
ITV1 show and persuaded to return
to their jungle dwelling.
The
confrontation followed the
delivery of the nine meals earned
by ex-footballer John Fashanu in
the fourth Bushtucker Trial he
has faced since the I'm A
Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
challenge started a week ago.
"Nine
sausages, I'm sorry, doesn't
constitute a meal," TV chef
Antony Worral-Thompson argued
during a mass showdown in the
Bush Telegraph.
"Nine
pieces of cauliflower, 27 mange
tout, two mushrooms and four kiwi
fruit and some nuts without a
nutcracker. What's wrong with
you? It's meant to be nine main
meals. It's less than 1,000
calories a day," Antony
continued.
"If
he (Antony) served that in his
restaurant for nine people he
would be struck off," former
EastEnders actress Danniella
Westbrook chipped in.
Weathergirl
Sian Lloyd said the food was a
snack rather than a meal, but was
told that the calorific value and
the portions had been carefully
worked out.
Singer
Toyah Willcox added: "Fash
has done four trials and has
risked things - he has almost
been bitten and has faced his
fears and there was no real
reward at the end of it. Today we
have had a duff deal."
Antony,
who tried to escape in a bid to
blackmail TV bosses into giving
him four cigarettes, pledged that
the 10 stars would stick
together.
"You
are not going to part us or split
us... We are a unit and we are
going together. We had a lark
around last night. This time it's
serious."
After
covering up the hidden cameras,
the celebrities headed for the
bridge where they were stopped by
the crew who eventually persuaded
them to accept an alternative
meal with the same calories. They
returned to camp happier with
their new deal, consisting of
meat, vegetables, potatoes and
oranges. But Danniella's
unhappiness was less easily
solved and the miserable Essex
girl said she was missing her
family so much she wanted to
leave.
"I
can't stand it, I really can't.
It's nothing to do with me and
the people (the other
celebrities), it's just that I
hate it in here.
"I
thought it would be fun. Everyone
is really starving hungry and
starting to feel really ill and
weak," she said.
Danniella
said she cried herself to sleep
because she missed her children
and husband and wanted to be
evicted from the camp.
She
added said: "Antony does his
best with what food we get. Fash
is virtually passing out.
Everyone's spirits are down,
everybody can't wait to get out
of here."
The
star, who was picked to be camp
leader for the day, sought
comfort from the others and was
persuaded to stay. But model
Catalina, who has clashed with
Danniella in the past, was less
than impressed by her quick
turnaround. She told TV designer
Linda Barker: "It makes her
look even better now that she has
gone back in.
"The
fact that she was about to walk
out, everyone is going to say she
stayed and she will get (people
saying) 'Good on you for that'...
I think it was a bit
manipulative."
Elsewhere
in camp, Fash endured another
gruesome challenge to win the
much maligned meals for the
group. After he had
creepy-crawlies poured down his
pants in an earlier trial, the
former Wimbledon player had to
stick his head in containers of
jungle creatures to pick up star
tokens. He only failed in the box
of eels after one of the slippery
creatures bit him.
Fash
told presenters Ant and Dec he
did not feel victimised by the
public after being chosen for yet
another task and said he was
trying to be positive.
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