{"id":10225,"date":"2012-12-12T19:09:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=10225"},"modified":"2012-12-12T19:09:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:09:38","slug":"weekend-my-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/weekend-my-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend: My Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10226\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"weekend12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/weekend12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"48\" \/>Toyah was featured in &#8216;Weekend&#8217; magazine&#8217;s &#8220;My Tube&#8221; last Saturday (8th December).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Singer and actress Toyah Willcox, 54, lives in Worcestershire with her husband, musician Robert Fripp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My favourite programme when I was about five was <strong>FIREBALL XL5<\/strong>, a Thunderbirds-style puppet show. Some of it was a bit scary for me at that age though, and I remember Mum having to cuddle me when she was meant to be cooking dinner.<\/p>\n<p>I was so gripped by <strong>SKY<\/strong> &#8211; a children&#8217;s drama about a boy who&#8217;s really an alien stranded on Earth &#8211; when I was at drama school in my late teens I wrote to the producers asking for a part. They called me in for a chat but I didn&#8217;t get the job.<\/p>\n<p>Joanna Lumley was brilliant in <strong>THE NEW AVENGERS<\/strong>. I was 18 when it started in 1976 and a hair model at a department store, and I remember having the Purdey &#8216;Pudding Bowl&#8217; cut. But then I discovered punk rock&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In my 20s I was a big fan of Trevor Eve&#8217;s private eye <strong>SHOESTRING<\/strong>, so I was delighted when I got to appear in an episode as a singer called Toola. Six of my songs were featured, and soon after my single It&#8217;s A Mystery entered the charts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;M A CELEBRITY<\/strong> is unmissable. When I was on it in 2003 we only had nasty trials towards the end, but now they get them from the start. I&#8217;d be too terrifird to do it today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 As told to Richard Webber | Toyah is in Sleeping Beauty at Canterbury&#8217;s Marlowe Theatre until 20 Jan, tel: 01227 787787 (Thanks to Ann-Marie Farran)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah was featured in &#8216;Weekend&#8217; magazine&#8217;s &#8220;My Tube&#8221; last Saturday (8th December). Singer and actress Toyah Willcox, 54, lives in Worcestershire with her husband, musician Robert Fripp. My favourite programme when I was about five was FIREBALL XL5, a Thunderbirds-style puppet show. Some of it was a bit scary for me at that age though, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[486,485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10225"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10255,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions\/10255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}