Strictly star Toyah Willcox has a very famous husband – all you need to know
The ‘It’s a Mystery’ songstress was announced as a contestant for Strictly’s 22nd series
• Continue reading at Hello! Magazine.
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: That’s TV 2: Thursday 15th August: 2.15am
Series 1. Episode 1. Adult drama based on the journals of Belle de Jour, starring Billie Piper as a high-class escort who enjoys what she does but has to keep it a secret from everyone in her personal life. Belle entertains two new clients – one of whom gets too close for comfort. With Toyah Willcox and Cherie Lunghi.
Strictly – arguably the UK’s biggest TV show of every year in the ratings – yesterday began announcing the confirmed celebrities participating in their 2024 series, which is also the 20th anniversary year for the show, with Toyah announced as the second competitor taking part. As of today there have been six celebrities confirmed so far.
Over the past 24 hours I’ve spotted dozens of online press reports on the Toyah announcement – Stay tuned for more Strictly Come Dancing 2024 updates over the coming days & weeks. See toyahwillcox.com’s Toyah Confirmed For Strictly…
Toyah’s Sack The Stylist?! Top 30: NOW 80s: Sunday 11th August: 11pm
Pop legend Toyah brings 30 memorable videos featuring a cavalcade of clothing calamities from superstars including Visage, Five Star, Divine, Cher, The Jam, Bananarama, Dead Or Alive, Bucks Fizz, ABC, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Madonna, Adam & The Ants, A Flock Of Seagulls, Roxy Music, Kajagoogoo, Duran Duran, Grace Jones, Su Pollard, Toyah herself and more in this crazy countdown!
• Saturday Morning Song: Don’t Fall In Love (Classic TV – Kenny Everett Show 1985) – Watch… • Toyah & Robert: UpBeat Moments – Watch… • Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch – Bad Blood – Watch…
Press for Toyah & Robert’s new Sunday Lunch. This week covering Taylor Swift. (Image © Toyah Willcox)
• Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Toyah & Robert cover Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” – Continue…
• Brave Words: Robert Fripp & Toyah Cover Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” In Brand New Sunday Lunch Episode – Continue…
• Turn Up The Volume: Alien Toyah And Hilarious Robert Fripp Covered Taylor Swift On Their Weekly Sunday Lunch Session – Continue…
• DGM Live: Toyah & Robert’s Weekend – Upbeat Moments & Sunday Lunch – Bad Blood – Continue…
• See Also: Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party – July 26 2024 – Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival – Continue…
Toyah plays the Rebellion Festival 2024 in Blackpool this Friday…
Celebrity Fantasy Homes: Really: Sunday 11th August: 8am
Toyah (Series 2, Episode 2). Celebrities hunt for a new home. Gaby Roslin helps the original punk-pop princess Toyah Willcox search for a second home, in Richmond upon Thames, with a budget of £650,000.
Celebrity PopMaster TV: Channel 4: Friday 9th August: 8pm
Celebrity PopMaster TV: 4Seven: Sunday 11th August: 8pm
Series 2. Episode 1. Ken Bruce kicks off the second series of the music quiz with the first of two celebrity editions. Featuring contestants Toyah Willcox, Richard Blackwood, Sally Lindsay, MistaJam and Kimberly Wyatt. (Photo © Channel 4/More 4)
Celebrity Catchphrase: Challenge: Tuesday 13th August: 7pm
Series 3, episode 7. Stephen Mulhern hosts a celebrity special of the classic game show, with Nicola Coughlan, Stephen Mangan and Toyah Willcox all trying to say what they see as they guess well-known phrases for the chance to win a £50,000 jackpot for their chosen charity.
A great new interview with Toyah & Robert, from The Inverness Courier, talking about their visit to Scotland, more specifically the Highlands, happening later today to play Belladrum’s Tartan Heart Festival…
Belladrum: Toyah & Robert on keeping the love alive and why they adore the Highlands
We caught up with music legends Toyah & Robert before they take the stage at Belladrum this weekend.
What is your favourite love song?
Toyah: For me it’s The Twelfth of Never by Johnny Mathis! But I’ve got a whole list…The Moody Blues, Nights In White Satin, Tasmin Archer’s Sleeping Satellite and Shakespeares Sister, Stay! They all make me really experience love!
Robert: I have no singing voice but there have been occasions I’ve sung Twelfth of Never to my wife! For me, it’s I Will Always Love You by Whitney Housten, the Dolly Parton song! Also, any early Elvis is when your heart aches!
Have you been to the Highlands before? What do you think of it?
Toyah: I’ve been there many times and I played there just before lockdown. I absolutely adore it. Inverness is just so different to Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh. I’ve done plays there, toured there in theatre and done music shows there. People are very connected to the land, and it’s a very different feel. I’m looking forward to that grounded-ness and connection.
The sky feels so much lower than anywhere else in the UK. It does feel like a ceiling there and I’m just looking forward to being outside in that experience.
• Continue reading at The Inverness Courier. See all of Toyah & Robert’s upcoming live dates at toyahwillcox.com.
Toyah & Robert are thrilled to be No.1 in The Heritage Charts with Roses In Chains.
Toyah will be performing at Rewind Festival in Dubai on February 22nd, 2025! Tickets now on sale.
Toyah & Robert’s Rock Party will take over the Coro on Saturday
Ulverston will welcome an ‘iconic duo’ for an evening of rock classics this weekend.
The Coronation Hall is hosting Toyah and Robert, who are both renowned for their ‘legendary artistic twists’.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Toyah Willcox has had eight Top 40 singles, released 20 albums, written two books, appeared in over 40 stage plays and ten feature films, and voiced and presented numerous television shows.
Composer, record producer and author Robert Fripp is best known as the guitarist, founder and continuing member of rock band King Crimson. He has worked as a studio player and collaborator with Brian Eno, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Daryl Hall, David Sylvian, Blondie and The Damned among others.
• Continue reading at The Mail. See also The Westmorland Gazette.
Stars give music fans ‘blast from the past’ at festival
Hundreds of music fans have enjoyed a “blast from the past” at a one-day festival celebrating some of the stars of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
Pop acts such as Toyah, Haircut 100, Damage and Liberty X took to the stage at Hits On The Pitch at Stockport Rugby Club in Greater Manchester on Saturday.
The event saw many memorable moments, including singer Chesney Hawkes leading the crowd in a rendition of The Beatles’ Hey Jude, in tribute to England footballer Jude Bellingham before the nation’s appearance in the Euros 2024 final.
Organiser Paul Taylor said it had been a chance to go “back to the good old glory days” and enjoy “guilty pleasures and forgotten treasures spanning across three unforgettable decades”.
• Continue reading at BBC News.
Minder: ITV4: Thursday 25th July: 3.35pm
Minder: ITV4: Friday 26th July: 6.10am
Minder: ITV4: Thursday 1st August: 1.50am
All Mod Cons. Series 2, Episode 8. Terry tries to help his friend Kate evict some unwanted tenants, but comes to doubt her motives. Meanwhile, Arthur is desperate to get into the property market and tries to sell Terry’s flat without telling him. Guest starring Toyah Willcox and Simon Cadell. Director: Ian Sharp. Also starring: George Cole, Dennis Waterman, Peter Childs, George Layton, Patrick Malahide, Michael Troughton. Also showing on ITV4 HD.
I sometimes get asked why I still regularly update a website that’s been online for close to 25 years… Well, I’ve always saw this as, essentially, a great hobby and something I enjoy doing. I have a busy, and varied, life but I’ve always found time to update this website and having been a Toyah fan for the past 44 years, I’ve enjoyed reporting on Toyah’s career for the past 25… One other reason is that Dreamscape is still an incredibly popular, much visited website. The stats aren’t always as busy as they were in the past week but we do get a lot of visitors!
A short Toyah press clip from Yours magazine, issue dated 9th July 2024.
If asked who you’d consider to be the ‘original punk rocker’ it’s unlikely that Princess Margaret would spring to mind. But after meeting Her Royal Highness and the Queen Mother at St James’ Palace many years ago, singer Toyah Willcox believes she was just that.
“We talked about the philosophy of punk rock and how it was opening doors for women and she was fascinated,” says Toyah. “I met her many times after that and she was a wicked and very sharp woman. I realised later that Princess Margaret was probably the original punk rocker as she just rebelled and rebelled and rebelled.”
• Yours magazine is on sale now. (Photo taken from Yours magazine).
Toyah during Saturday’s Toyah At Home: “Look out, as there are more announcements coming up over the next few months… Oh boy! Are there more announcements coming up! Yes!” Pre-order the Rebel Run EP.
