Toyah Willcox must be just about the only celebrity who is more scared of stripping down to her swimsuit than she is about diving off the high board on Splash!
And whilst her style back in the Eighties might not be one you’re in a hurry to recreate today, as she prepares to take the plunge we couldn’t help but notice how good she’s looking nowadays in that swimsuit.
She’s got nothing to worry about…
• Continue reading at the Daily Mail.
Splash! star Toyah Willcox has revealed she’s more terrified of parading in a swimsuit than plunging off a high board.
In fact, the 55-year-old pop star initially turned down ITV bosses for just that reason before changing her mind, “When they asked me, my first thought was that I never wanted to be seen in public by millions of people in a swimming costume, ” Toyah told The Sunday Post. “I’ve never had a career where I’m judged on my body.
“I’m far happier diving off a high board than I am doing that run in front of the audience in my swimming costume. That’s what I’m having nightmares about…”
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Toyah Willcox flaunts her fabulous figure in pink swimwear as she joins Splash!
She may be turning 56 this year, but Toyah Willcox will have women half her age envious of her body following her stint on Splash!
In official pictures taken for the actress’ appearance on the ITV1 reality show, she shows off her incredible figure in a hot pink low-cut swimming costume whilst posing by the pool.
However, despite looking so good it seems that the thought of wearing swimwear in public is scaring Toyah more than the fact that she has to dive off of a three metre board this Saturday.
Describing her thoughts on her figure, the actress and singer, who has admitted to having a facelift, admitted that she doesn’t “do beach holidays”.
• Continue reading at The Express.
Splash! week 2: Keith Duffy, Martin Offiah and Toyah Willcox among those prepared to take the plunge
Tom Daley and his new contestants gear up for the second heat
Splash! is ready to take on audiences for a second week and this time it’s enlisted the skills of five new celebrities. Boyzone’s Keith Duffy, comedian/presenter Paul Ross, rugby league star Martin Offiah, singer/actress/presenter Toyah Willcox and television presenter Anna Williamson will feature this time around.
• Continue reading at the Mirror.
Toyah Willcox, 55, shows off her stunning figure in hot pink swimsuit for Splash!
Curvaceous and toned, she looks confident in her hot pink swimsuit.
But Toyah Willcox has confessed she feels anything but and the thought of flashing her flesh in a bathing costume or bikini terrifies her more than completing her dive from the three metre board this Saturday.
For unlike many of the celebrity contestants who appear on reality ITV programme Splash! Miss Willcox, 55, has diving experience – what she appears never to have done before is wear a swimsuit in public – and it is giving her nightmares.
Describing her thoughts on her figure, the actress and singer, who underwent a facelift around ten years ago, and said she does not ‘do beach holidays’ said: ‘I’m very short, naturally muscular and I’m 55. The only thing that’s going to make me look like Cher is the amount of surgery she’s had and I’m not going to do that’
• Continue reading at the Daily Mail.
The next group of celebrities are putting in their final preparations ahead of the second episode of Luton-based diving show, Splash!
Toyah Willcox, Boyzone star Keith Duffy, TV presenter Anna Williamson, rugby star Martin Offiah and TV personality Paul Ross will be facing their fears under the watchful eye of Olympian Tom Daley.
The series opener on Saturday saw Diversity star Perri Kiely and Michaela Strachan sail through to the semi-finals of the programme with impressive efforts. The dive of the show went to Perri, who completed a backward somersault from the 10 metre board.
• Continue reading at Luton on Sunday.
Dreamscape posted news about this before Christmas, and now PROG magazine have put the article, and recipe, online.
In this month’s mag, we printed Robert and Toyah’s recipe for Christmas cake. If you missed it, here’s the winter fuel for a Crimson King…
• Continue reading at PROG magazine.
Vintage TV have published a short article on their new Christmas show for 2013, A Very Vintage Christmas co-hosted by Toyah and Roy Wood. The article is included in their latest newsletter and also at their website. Toyah is also currently pictured on Vintage TV’s homepage.
You’re spoilt for choice here people, as Vintage TV gets fabulously festive with shows positively fizzing with magic and merriment. On our Christmas wish list is: a seasonal edition of A Very Vintage Christmas with Toyah Willcox and Roy Wood (first airing Mon, 2nd Dec); The Janice Long Review Show (Sun, 8th Dec, 8pm); Toyah’s Christmas at the Zoo (showing through Dec); two My Vintage Christmas specials; and artists revealing their festive favourites through the month too.
• Continue reading at Vintage TV.
Toyah helped launch the opening of new photography studios on Saturday, as reported today by the Maidenhead Advertiser.
New photography studios launched by pop star Toyah Willcox
Marlow welcomed the launch of a new photography studio on Saturday
The ribbon on the Apollo Photography Studio was cut by special guests Toyah Willcox and the mayor of Marlow, Suzanne Brown, to officially open the business.
The studio in Dean Street offers experts and facilities for contemporary, commercial and environmental photography. Studio manager, Gary Ian, said he was delighted to finally open the doors after a long search for the right premises and offer residents a place to get that perfect portrait.
• Continue reading at the Maidenhead Advertiser. Toyah also tweeted a photo from this on Saturday. View that at the Official Toyah Instagram. (Photo © Maidenhead Advertiser)
Toyah is appearing at the ‘MCM Comic Con and Memorabilia Show’ today in Birmingham, and has already posted a few photos to the Official Toyah Instagram. Click below to view larger versions of Toyah with her Jubilee co-star, the sensational Little Nell, those legendary Star Wars characters and a Pinhead lookeylikey from Hellraiser. Toyah has also met up with Nintendo characters (okay, it’s two blokes dressed as them but anyway…) Mario and Luigi. (Photos © Toyah Willcox Ltd)
• Birmingham Mail: Dr Who and Star Wars pull the crowds to Birmingham Comic Con and Memorabilia Show: Birmingham-born pop star and actress Toyah Willcox, who played Monkey in Quadrophenia, was joined by fellow cast members Phil Daniels, who played Jimmy, and Daniel Peacock, who took the role of Danny, to celebrate the ultimate mod movie, based on The Who’s 1973 rock opera – Continue reading…
Celebrity fans of the Time Lord hop into the Tardis to revisit their favourite memories.
Toyah Willcox, singer and actress
When Doctor Who was made into a cinema film in 1965 as Dr Who and the Daleks with Peter Cushing as the Doctor, I insisted on going. The problem with seeing a horror film in public when you are only seven years old is that it’s unforgivable to show fear.
Even the opening sequences of mist-covered marshlands surrounding the Daleks’ city had me frozen to the spot. I remember wanting to slide down the seat and hide but I was flanked by my parents who were all too ready to laugh at my fear. So I sat, wide-eyed and as petrified as those on-screen forests, for two tortuous and exhilarating hours… which kept me in full supply of nightmares for a good month.
• Continue reading at bt.com.
An Evesham nightspot is bringing Essex and the 80s to the Vale with two very special club nights.
The Only Way is Essex (TOWIE) and Celebrity Big Brother star Mario Falcone will hold a meet and greet at the club next Friday (November 29) before 80s legend Toyah Willcox performs live the following night (Saturday).
Toyah is an 80s icon with a career spanning 30 years that includes eight Top 40 singles and more than 20 albums. General Manager Richie Ross said: “We’re heading into the festive season with bang this year and can’t wait to welcome Mario and Toyah to Evesham”.
• Continue reading at the Evesham Observer.
A couple of recent press reports on next year’s Chilfest from ‘Hemel Today’.
• New acts and Tring location announced for next year’s Chilfest – but are you ‘tempted’ to go?: Heaven 17 and Go West are the two latest acts confirmed as performers at next year’s Chilfest – and it will be held at a Tring location… Post-punk comedy vaudevillians Bad Manners, It’s a Mystery singer Toyah Willcox and Scottish rock band Big Country will also be appearing. Tickets are due to go on sale in mid-January – Continue reading…
• Jason Donovan will be at Chilfest: Other confirmed performers are post-punk comedy vaudevillians Bad Manners, It’s a Mystery singer Toyah Willcox and Scottish rock band Big Country – Continue reading…
• Toyah tweeted on Tuesday to confirm the type of set she will be playing: “Just letting u know that Chilfest, Tring on the 5th July is the full TOYAH band…..loud n’ proud“.
Toyah talks Doctor Who, in a new article by the Birmingham Mail/Sunday Mercury, ahead of its 50th Anniversary episode this weekend. (Text originally published in Behind The Sofa)
Brummie chart star turned stage singer Toyah Willcox admits that she can’t wait for Saturday’s big Doctor Who special.
Brummie chart star turned stage singer Toyah Willcox admits that she can’t wait for Saturday’s big Doctor Who special. Because she’s TURNED ON by the telly Time Lord, who’ll be played in the 50th anniversary adventure by no fewer than three actors.
Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt will all appear as incarnations of Britain’s best-loved sci-fi star – and viewers may also be treated to fleeting glimpses of all the other Doctors who have graced the Tardis over the years.
And that’s great news for Toyah, 55, who was born in Kings Heath. “When I was a ratty pubescent teen I started to find the whole concept of Doctor Who highly erotic,” she admits. “And I still do!” The singer says that the show played a big part in her Second City childhood. “Haven’t we all hidden behind the sofa when Doctor Who was on the telly?” she asks.
• Continue reading at the Birmingham Mail/Sunday Mercury.
‘Chilfest’ announced the first three music acts, one of which being Toyah, for their 2014 festival taking place in July. Hemel Today reported the news on Friday.
First three acts to perform at next year’s Chilfest music festival are announced
The first three acts at next year’s Chilfest have been confirmed as post-punk comedy vaudevillians Bad Manners, It’s a Mystery singer Toyah Willcox and Scottish rock band Big Country.
The two-day music festival was staged for the first time in Tring in the summer, and attracted big names ranging from teen pop sensations Little Mix to Spandau Ballet crooner Tony Hadley. Organiser Steve Butcher said the 2014 event may go on for three days, but the location has yet to be decided.
• Continue reading at Hemel Today.
A new interview with Toyah, published today, by The Telegraph.
Toyah Willcox, the singer and actress, has fond memories of Estonia and the remotest regions of Belize, but hates to travel with Ryanair
Your earliest memory of travelling?
As a young child, my family holidays were always in Rock, Cornwall, with my parents, older brother Kim and sister Nicola. We hired a bungalow on the grounds of a hotel, but there were only two bedrooms. Mum and Dad stayed in one while Kim and Nicola shared the other. They used to put me to sleep in the living room by pushing two armchairs together. We lived in Birmingham at the time, so it took what seemed like 10 hours to get there, pootling along the single-track roads and country lanes.
• Continue reading at The Telegraph – Travel.
Greatest hits, fan favourites and cult classics will feature when former punk princess Toyah headlines Bilston’s Robin 2 on Friday October 25.
Fans can look forward to classics like Thunder In The Mountains, I Want To Be Free and It’s A Mystery when the Brummie star takes to the stage for her Love Is The Law show, which will feature songs from her last studio album, before she embarked on a solo career.
Willcox was bullied at school because she had a speech impediment and was short – however, that spurred her on to become a star.
Toyah said: “Yipeee, it’s show time.Interestingly I already know the songs inside out. Whereas The Changeling took months to learn, Love Is The Law is still firmly in my head from 1983, which was one of the happiest and most fulfilling years of my life.”
• Continue reading at Native Monster.
A new press report, and video interview, with Toyah from the beginning of the tour last week.
Toyah talks touring to mark an album which became a career milestone
A paragon of punk is hitting the road to mark 30 years since an album which marked a milestone in her career. Toyah Willcox said recording the Love is The Law album in 1983 was one of the happiest times of her life however it was to be the last studio album with her band.
She went on to a successful career as a solo artist, actor and TV presenter and is now ready to revisit Love is The Law on a tour with a set list which will also include all her biggest hits, new songs and fans’ favourite tracks.
• Continue reading at The Shuttle. Watch the interview at You Tube.
A new interview with Toyah, ahead of Friday’s first Love Is The Law & More gig, from Chronicle Live, published today.
Love is still the Law for 80s singer Toyah: We chat to Toyah ahead of her gig at Legends
Entertainment Editor Gordon Barr chats to Toyah, who is at Legends in Newcastle on Friday
Three decades on, 80s pop princess Toyah still recalls 1983 as one of her favourite years. Little wonder then she is bringing her album release of that year back out on the road.
Love Is The Law was critically acclaimed at the time and Toyah will be performing about six tracks from it, as well as a host of her numerous other hits, when she takes to the stage of Legends in Newcastle on Friday.
“This is my favourite album, it has very happy memories for me,” she tells me. “It was released in 1983 and I made it at a time when I was also appearing as Trafford Tanzi in the West End and it had to be written and recorded at the same time.
“But it was just glorious. I don’t have one bad memory of that year at all…”
• Continue reading at Chronicle Live.
Legendary singer Toyah, will be bringing her rollicking Love Is The Law & More Tour to the Concorde 2, Brighton on Thursday, October 24 at 7pm.
The singer, who has recorded 20 albums and famously starred in the Brighton mods and rockers film Quadrophenia, will be performing all her greatest hits, including It’s a Mystery and I Want To Be Free, alongside fan favourites and cult classics. Known for her exuberant, energetic live shows, Love Is The Law & More promises to be a night filled with colour, drama, fantastic wigs and explosive songs.
• Continue reading at GScene.
Toyah is mentioned in The Telegraph‘s review of the, recently published, Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks.
Derek Jarman’s Sketchbooks, ed. Stephen Farthing and Ed Webb-Ingall, review
Tim Robey is absorbed by the creative mind of film-maker and artist Derek Jarman, as revealed through his extraordinary sketchbooks
The nicest touch is that each chapter gets a separate commentary, too, by someone involved in a working relationship with Jarman at that time. Toyah Willcox, who starred in Jubilee, talks about the excitement of being an 18-year-old virgin from an all-girls school when she first arrived at Jarman’s Edwardian flat to find naked men cavorting around.
• Continue reading at The Telegraph.
