{"id":27147,"date":"2016-12-30T20:18:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=27147"},"modified":"2016-12-30T20:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T20:18:35","slug":"birmingham-living-its-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/birmingham-living-its-a-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Living: It&#8217;s A Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birmingham.livingmag.co.uk\/toyah-willcox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/birmingham.livingmag.co.uk\/toyah-willcox\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27149 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"birmliving16d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/birmliving16d.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah Willcox\u2019s colourful career has taken her from Punk Princess to Splash, Teletubbies and I\u2019m a Celebrity. She never ceases to surprise\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is something very endearing about Toyah Willcox. She is one in a long tradition of creative, sometimes downright cussed, free spirits who mellow into a kind of national treasure with the passing years. Say what you like about Toyah, you could never pigeon-hole her. The original wild-child punk princess is credited with starting the Goth movement, has voiced the Teletubbies, champions the National Trust and survived the Celebrity Jungle. And this multi-talented ball of energy has now been officially honoured by her home city with a star on Birmingham\u2019s Walk of Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Being Toyah, she challenges the word mellow. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m mellowing,\u201d she says, \u201cthough I do find things that freaked me out in the past don\u2019t bother me anymore. And I\u2019m working harder than ever.\u201d No kidding! This is a one-woman phenomenon with a record company, six movies on the go and a touring band. A typical day starts at 6am, involves driving across the country, gigging, presenting and writing before final getting into bed at 4. Not that she\u2019d change a thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/birmingham.livingmag.co.uk\/toyah-willcox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Birmingham Living<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/rockhoppermedia\/docs\/january_issue_2017__issue_52_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/rockhoppermedia\/docs\/january_issue_2017__issue_52_\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27150\" alt=\"birmliving16c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/birmliving16c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/birmliving16c.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/birmliving16c-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah Willcox\u2019s colourful career has taken her from Punk Princess to Splash, Teletubbies and I\u2019m a Celebrity. She never ceases to surprise\u2026 There is something very endearing about Toyah Willcox. She is one in a long tradition of creative, sometimes downright cussed, free spirits who mellow into a kind of national treasure with the passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,51],"tags":[1709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147"}],"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=27147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27151,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27147\/revisions\/27151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}