{"id":21122,"date":"2014-12-23T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=21122"},"modified":"2014-12-23T17:18:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:18:04","slug":"toyah-christmas-open-house-2002-2-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/toyah-christmas-open-house-2002-2-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyah @ Christmas: Open House 2002 (2 Days To Go)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/archive\/archiveinterviews108.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/archive\/archiveinterviews108.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20896 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"christmas14f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas14f.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Christmas 2002<\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Toyah guested on Gloria Hunniford&#8217;s <em>Open House<\/em> on Channel 5. This was a panto special with Toyah in full costume, she talked about her panto for that year, <em>Aladdin<\/em> at The Anvil in Basingstoke, <em>Calamity Jane<\/em> and more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;<em>A singer, actress, and presenter who has brought punk to panto, Toyah Willcox&#8230;<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Gloria<\/strong>: You&#8217;ve lost so much weight!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Toyah<\/strong>: I&#8217;ve been touring Calamity Jane for months. It&#8217;s made me lean and mean!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/xmas08c.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/xmas08c.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21123\" alt=\"ohwgh14a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ohwgh14a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ohwgh14a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ohwgh14a-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Christopher Biggins<\/strong>: Her muscles are incredible<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Toyah<\/strong>: I have to swing from rafters and I&#8217;m thrown everywhere. It&#8217;s good. And that&#8217;s just in my dressing room!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Gloria<\/strong>: It seems odd that someone who was always very different&#8230;panto seems to be almost tame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong> Toyah<\/strong>: You think it&#8217;s tame to dress like a boy twice a day, go onstage and pretend to be male, and marry a woman at the end of the show? I think it&#8217;s the best thing anyone could ever do! I know what you&#8217;re saying. I don&#8217;t think I would ever have dreamt 20 years ago that I would have done panto. Now that I&#8217;ve done it for 10 years I&#8217;m passionately in love with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2022 Read a full transcript of Toyah&#8217;s interview\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/archive\/archiveinterviews108.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>,<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and view larger versions of the screen caps <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/xmas08c.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2002, Toyah guested on Gloria Hunniford&#8217;s Open House on Channel 5. This was a panto special with Toyah in full costume, she talked about her panto for that year, Aladdin at The Anvil in Basingstoke, Calamity Jane and more. &#8220;A singer, actress, and presenter who has brought punk to panto, Toyah Willcox&#8230;&#8220; Gloria: You&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1168],"tags":[1192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21122"}],"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=21122"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21131,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21122\/revisions\/21131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}