{"id":11750,"date":"2013-02-25T14:46:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T14:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=11750"},"modified":"2013-02-25T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:07:44","slug":"womans-weekly-having-a-cup-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/womans-weekly-having-a-cup-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s Weekly: Having A Cup Of Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11751\" style=\"border: white 6px solid;\" title=\"womweekly13a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/womweekly13a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Toyah is interviewed in this week&#8217;s issue of &#8216;Woman&#8217;s Weekly&#8217; magazine.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Having\u00a0A Cup Of\u00a0Tea\u00a0<\/strong>With Singer And Actress Toyah Willcox<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who would you most like to have a cup of tea with?<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid Bowie, Helen Mirren and Judi Dench &#8211; all British legends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;re about to appear in the play <em>Hormonal Housewives<\/em>. What can we expect?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an all-out comedy about three women. It&#8217;s one of those plays where you read the script and you keep thinking, &#8216;Oh yes, I&#8217;ve been through that!&#8217;. The madness that comes through PMT is all captured in an evening. It&#8217;s very funny, light-hearted and well-observed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ve had such a varied career. Is there anything you&#8217;d still like to try?<\/strong><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s still loads I&#8217;d love to do. I&#8217;ll sing as long as I have a singing voice &#8211; although I can&#8217;t imagine I&#8217;ll be doing it for more than another five years. And I still very much want to act. I look at fantastic scripts like <em>Homeland<\/em> or <em>Downton Abbey<\/em> that include older women and I think, &#8216;Yes! I&#8217;ve got something to aim for.&#8217; The thought of an enforced retirement would be an absolute nightmare for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When are you happiest?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy days off are very precious and I spend them with my husband (Robert Fripp, former guitarist in rock band King Crimson). We&#8217;ve been together for 27 years but we&#8217;re apart weeks at a time, so I trally treasure moments with him. It&#8217;s still romantic when we go to the cinema or on a long walk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you sing in the shower?<\/strong><br \/>\nI come up with lyrics and storylines for my muisc in the shower, so I never get in with a blank mind. I take a notebook everywhere &#8211; even there! It&#8217;s always soggy and the writing&#8217;s pretty much illegible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You were known for outlandish clothes in the 1980s. Are you still passionate about fashion?<\/strong><br \/>\nI try to dress approproately &#8211; my time for showing flesh has definitely passed! I don&#8217;t know how Madonna does it. But I do still dress creatlively and I think it&#8217;s really important at my age (Toyah is in her 50s) to look well groomed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;re supporting Acupuncture Awareness Week. What made you start using acupuncture?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always lived with insomnia, and I realised I had to address what had become a chronic problem.<\/p>\n<p>Acupuncture worked for me straightaway. I&#8217;m now up to seven hours of sleep a night, from three or four. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a cure-all, but it&#8217;s a fantastic complimentary therapy to Western medicine.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more visit www.introducingacupuncture.co.uk. To find a registered practioner in your area, check with the British Acupuncture Council [020 8735 0400] (<strong>Thanks to Andrea &amp; acupuncture.org.uk<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah is interviewed in this week&#8217;s issue of &#8216;Woman&#8217;s Weekly&#8217; magazine. Having\u00a0A Cup Of\u00a0Tea\u00a0With Singer And Actress Toyah Willcox Who would you most like to have a cup of tea with? David Bowie, Helen Mirren and Judi Dench &#8211; all British legends. You&#8217;re about to appear in the play Hormonal Housewives. What can we expect? 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