A new interview with Toyah, published yesterday, by the North Devon Journal.
Rosanna Rothery chats to Toyah Willcox ahead of Hormonal Housewives
Hormones can wreak havoc with your life. Just ask Toyah Willcox. The singer and actor visits Barnstaple next week with the hilarious show, Hormonal Housewives.
Throughout her thirties, the former punk icon was plagued with severe PMS. “I have not one positive thing to say about PMS,” she says with feeling. “It was a complete waste of my youth. I can’t look back and say, ‘ooh I was wonderfully creative during that period’. I wasn’t. I was frustrated. I was emotional. Probably not the best person to be near.”
For Toyah the intense monthly madness could only be described as “sheer hell”.
• Continue reading at the North Devon Journal/This is North Devon.
• This is South Wales: Toyah Ready To Rip: The neat and sweet pink dress from the promo photos might make Toyah Willcox look like a Stepford Wife or an extra from The Hour, but Hormonal Housewives, she says, is far from sugar-coated. She and her sisters-in-theatre, Julie Coombe and Sarah Jane Buckley, will let rip on everything from domestic chores to challenging teenagers in the show, at Swansea Grand Theatre on Monday.
• Swindon Wyvern Theatre: Toyah Willcox, Julie Coombe and Sarah-Jane Buckley perform a sketch from Hormonal Housewives. Listen at Soundcloud.
• Shropshire Live: Hormonal Housewives visit Telford as part of national tour: Hormonal Housewives are in Telford as part of their Spring Tour 2013 and you are in for a treat with this hilarious show presented by British pop icon Toyah Willcox, writer Julie Coombe, and former Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jane Buckley.
• This is Surrey Today: Understanding what makes women tick: Pop princess Toyah Willcox and Julie Coombe take you on a journey through everything that makes women tick – or ticked off.
• Toyah tweeted yesterday: “Since steve wright this afternoon the box office for Hormonal Housewives has gone bonkers! Thank u SW“.
A new report, by the King’s Heath Walf Of Fame website, on Toyah’s star being laid.
Toyah’s Star gets laid in King’s Heath’s York Road
Toyah’s star has now been laid in King’s Heath’s York Road. The marble star, which is set in the frontage of Maurice Robinson’s Sports Shop, is the first of many that will make up King’s Heath’s very own Walk of Fame.
Bob Prew and Ken Whittaker who came up with the idea of the Walk of Fame said, “This is the start of a major new attraction for King’s Heath. Toyah’s star has taken longer to manufacture than we had originally hoped but future stars should now take a lot less time to appear. We hope that there will eventually be at least 20 stars stretching down York Road and encouraging more visitors to King’s Heath”.
• Continue reading at the King’s Heath Walk of Fame. (Photos © KH Walk Of Fame)
Pop icon Toyah Willcox is to star in the latest production of Hormonal Housewives, which will arrive at The Castle in Wellingborough on Tuesday.
A spokesman said: “Charismatic, outspoken and impossible to categorise, Toyah will be bringing the laughs to Wellingborough this spring.
“Ideal for a girls’ night out, Hormonal Housewives is guaranteed to be a hilariously funny evening.”
• Continue reading at the Northampton Chronicle & Echo.
Organisers of a popular summer music festival are drawing up exciting plans to attract even more families from Worcester and across the county.
Upton Music Festival returns to the town from August 23 to 25 with a host of big acts including 80s Brit pop sensation Bucks Fizz, local superstar Toyah Willcox and former chart toppers Slade.
New to the festival this year will be a variety tent packed with family entertainment as well as a Top of the Pops tent where DJs including former Fun House presenter Pat Sharp will get people of all ages filling the dance floor.
• Continue reading at the Worcester Standard.
Richard Kay quotes Toyah’s most recent blog, and the health issues she mentions, in his latest Daily Mail column.
It is a debilitating illness that she likens to a hammer blow every 15 minutes to her knees, back, shoulders and hips. This is how singer and actress Toyah Willcox describes the ‘peculiar virus’ she’s been suffering for the past three months.
Her symptoms have been so painful that she has had to undergo daily physiotherapy at a sports injury centre. But despite her illness, she has just started a nationwide tour of a play, Hormonal Housewives.
• Continue reading at the Daily Mail.
Toyah’s involvement in yesterday’s huge traffic-jam in Sussex has been reported just about EVERYWHERE today, from Sky News to ITV’s Daybreak, from BBC Breakfast to many local tv and radio stations. Both Daybreak and Breakfast even tweeted Toyah directly, requesting interviews. Online it’s essentially the same story being reported by countless websites. Here are just a few:
• OK! Magazine: Toyah Willcox among stars caught up in snow hell: Singers Toyah Willcox and Cheryl Baker, and hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks, were left stranded on a snowbound road for up to 10 hours as blizzards blanketed parts of the U.K. this week
• The Express and Star magazine running exactly the same report – they are all owned by the same publisher so that makes sense. Contact Music also ran this story.
• Orange News: Toyah Willcox & Rizzle Kicks caught up in snow hell: 1980s star Willcox took to Twitter.com to reveal her six-hour misery in the snow.
• Birmingham Mail: Birmingham born actress Toyah Willcox among hundreds forced to spend the night in their car: Brummie actress Toyah Willcox was marooned for more than 14 hours as roads in the south of England were blocked by snow and stranded vehicles. The Kings Heath-born star posted on Twitter how she finally got off the M23 in Sussex at 6.30am following a freezing night trapped in her car.
• ITN News: Rizzle Kicks and Toyah Willcox get caught up in the snow: Half the nation was battling with snow-covered roads on Monday evening and so were Rizzle Kicks and Toyah Willcox.
• View more coverage at Digital Spy, The Epoch Times, The Argus, Yahoo News, Heart…
Snow ‘apocalypse’ in Sussex leaves hundreds of motorists (and Cheryl Baker) stranded for up to ten hours in freezing weather
• 80s pop stars among hundreds trapped
• Minus temperatures force Red Cross to be drafted in to help
• Vehicles jackknifed on A23, making access hard for emergency vehicles
• Parts of A23 and M23 worst hit by freezing weather and delays
Cherly Baker, Toyah Willcox, and pop group Rizzle Kicks were among hundreds of motorist trapped for up to ten hours on motorways in Sussex and Kent. The Red Cross dispatched emergency teams to help people stranded in the freezing conditions on the A23.
• Continue reading at the London Evening Standard.
Cheryl Baker, of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, told ITV Daybreak that her vehicle was at “complete standstill” after eight hours on the A23: @daybreak Hoping to be asleep in my bed by then! 8 hours and still at a complete standstill. Bloody ridiculous.And they KNEW snow was coming
Singer Toyah Wilcox also complained about being stranded on the A23: Still on A23, not moved yet northbound is moving freely. 6 hours! Come on snow isn’t that bad :-O
• Continue reading at ITV News.
Rizzle Kicks, Cheryl Baker and Toyah Willcox among hundreds of motorists stranded in cars by snow
Queues of up to 30 MILES long formed as police, snow ploughs and gritting lorries battled to treat the roads in the South East.
Hundreds of motorists were stranded in their cars overnight in freezing conditions after snow brought traffic to a standstill. Celebrities including Rizzle Kicks, Cheryl Baker and Toyah Willcox were among those stuck for hours in the bitter cold in long tailbacks
• Continue reading at the Mirror.
Unfortunately Toyah didn’t make it to last night’s Hormonal Housewives performance in Brighton due to the snow causing tailbacks of up to 30 miles in Kent and Sussex.
Toyah tweeted several times from her car that she had been on the A23 a few miles from Brighton for more than six hours attempting to reach the theatre!
Overnight there have been numerous news reports, including Sky News, Gem 106 and Orange News, who mention Toyah being caught up in the chaos and also publish one of her tweets.
Hundreds of motorists have been trapped overnight in their cars for up to 10 hours after heavy snow brought traffic in Sussex to a standstill… The worst affected areas were the A23 between Crawley and Brighton and the M23 around Handcross Hill.
Cheryl Baker, the 1980s pop star with the Eurovision-winning group Bucks Fizz, was among those stuck on the roads as she tried to make her way along the A23 to Brighton to her children. In a series of furious tweets she said: “8 hours and still at a complete standstill. Bloody ridiculous. And they KNEW snow was coming. “Could have flown to NY by now. Was it the wrong kind of snow?”
Toyah Willcox, another 1980s pop star also found herself stranded on the A23 around 15 miles from Brighton tweeted: “Still on A23, not moved yet northbound is moving freely. 6 hours! Come on snow isn’t that bad.”
Hormonal Housewives are on their way to Derby, after the launch of their spring tour.
The celebrated show returns to the city as part of a nationwide tour which was launched this month.
With a packed schedule ahead, Toyah Willcox and Julie Coombe are hitting the road with a stop-off in Derby in April.
• Continue reading at the Ashbourne News Telegraph.
Causing mayhem and mania wherever they go, the Hormonal Housewives are coming to G Live on Monday 8 April.
Led by British pop icon Toyah Willcox these ladies mean business and will be giving Guildford audiences the ultimate girls night out!
• Continue reading at easthampshire.org.
Various recent press and reviews for the newly released Region 1 DVD box set of Maigret: The Complete Collection.
• USA Today: DVD extra: Michael Gambon’s ‘Maigret’ out this week: New boxed set features complete collection of episodes from 1992 detective series ‘Maigret’ starring Michael Gambon (Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Headmaster Dumbledore).
• Sentinel Source: Old ‘Maigret’ returns to DVD in new edition: “Maigret” has now been reissued in a boxed set of 4 DVDs holding the 12 episodes that comprise Series 1 and 2 of this wonderful police drama.
• HK Film News: Maigret: Complete Collection – DVD Review: A woman’s body is discovered in the basement of an upperclass hotel in “Maigret and the Hotel Majestic”, which finds the detective getting physical with an irate prostitute (Toyah Willcox) and receiving some nasty scratches across one side of his face.
• Blog Critics: DVD Review: Maigret, Complete Collection: There are some actors who have the ability to make everything they do seem effortless. Somehow they manage to make their characters seem like a natural extension of themselves.
• DVD File: Maigret: The Complete Collection: DVD Review: Maigret: The Complete Collection isn’t must-see crime drama programming, but Gambon’s performance really is something special, so fans of the subgenre shouldn’t hesitate to give these discs a spin on their rental queues. A/V quality isn’t sensational (and there are no bonuses included at all), but from the right vantage point, these episodes can be pretty fun.
The Hormonal Housewives are back and armed with a load of lessons for us about being a modern woman that are sure to have us in stitches.
This year’s tour is set to feature a cast of women willing and able to scare the crap out of any man, including singer, actor and all-round feisty lady Toyah Willcox and former psycho Hollyoaks star Sarah Jane Buckley alongside the hugely talented Julie Coombe.
• Continue reading at Leeds-List.
A new Toyah interview, by the Liverpool Echo, published yesterday.
Toyah Willcox on Hormonal Housewives and the art of reinvention
There was the feisty, whip-cracking heroine of Calamity Jane, then a femme fatale devil in high-heeled boots in Vampire’s Rock.
Now Toyah Willcox is on her way back to the Liverpool stage as one of a trio of ‘hormonal housewives’ in the show of the same name which makes three visits to Merseyside this spring.
“It’s comedy, and I think comedy is a fantastic art form,” she explains of her decision to join the show which is helmed by Ken Alexander, the Royal Court’s new artistic director. “Everyone thinks comedy is light-hearted and that’s it. It’s not – it has to be so well planned, you have to be setting it up at least a page before.
• Continue reading at the Liverpool Echo.
The latest Hormonal Housewives related Toyah interview, this one from Peterborough Today.
As a singer, actress, author, punk princess and composer, Toyah Willcox’s life has never been dull.
In a career spanning thirty years she has had thirteen top 40 singles, recorded twenty albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays, made ten feature films and presented television programmes as diverse as The Good Sex Guide Late, Watchdog and Songs Of Praise.
During her run she has visited Peterborough on many occasions, and she will add to that list on March 12 with the production of Hormonal Housewives at the Cresset Theatre.
Following 2012’s celebrated reception as they caused mayhem and mania in theatres across the land, the irrepressible Hormonal Housewives are back and return this spring to commence a second national tour.
• Continue reading at Peterborough Today.
It’s a mystery how women cope with their hormones but 80s star Toyah Willcox aims to have a laugh finding out.
The singer – she of the orange hair and wild make-up back in the day – turned actress some time ago and is now appearing in a great new sketch style show with Julie Coombe called Hormonal Housewives which should be a good giggle on Tuesday March 12. Is your man more James May than Christian Grey? Then this is the show for you!
Toyah says – “Girls… don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, 40 is the new 20. I’m now 54 and life isn’t slowing down. I tour my band, do TV and travel the world. I’ve even played Billie Piper’s mother in Diary Of Call Girl.
• Continue reading at ESP Magazine.
A review of the second show of the Hormonal Housewives tour. Praise for Toyah and the cast by the Ipswich Star.
Men were definitely in the minority at the Ipswich Regent.
There was an element of men-bashing, and with such a female-biased audience, it obviously went down well. But running deeper than that, most of the audience will have been able to pick at least one thread they could relate to, giving them a unity with the cast.
A great girls night out.
• Read the full review at the Ipswich Star. Also at EADT24.
Plans are coming together to make the third Upton Music Festival more of a family affair. The event returns to Fish Meadow from Friday to Sunday, August 23-25 with more incentives for families and traders to get involved.
Acts already confirmed include Bucks Fizz, Alexander O’Neal and local celebrity Toyah Willcox, as well as a DJ set from Pat Sharp, while a grand firework display will bring the celebrations to a close for the whole town at 9.15pm on the Sunday.
• Continue reading at Worcester News.
Following their hugely successful 2012 tour, Toyah Willcox and Julie Coombe star in the hilariously funny Hormonal Housewives, which returns to the New Victoria Theatre, Woking, with all-new sketches as well as all the best bits for one night only on Monday March 18, at 7.30pm.
A side-splitting evening – what they can’t teach you about modern woman-hood isn’t worth knowing.
• Continue reading at Get Surrey.
