{"id":41916,"date":"2024-12-07T23:47:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=41916"},"modified":"2024-12-07T23:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:47:36","slug":"christmas-2024-day-7-birmingham-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2024-day-7-birmingham-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2024: Day 7: Birmingham Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><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_ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-41917 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/christmas24a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas 2016,<\/span><\/strong> and Toyah was the cover star of <em><strong>Birmingham Living<\/strong><\/em> magazine &#8211; issue dated January 2017 but published in December 2016 &#8211; with a three-page interview feature accompanied by some great shots of Toyah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">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<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2022 The magazine is still available online. Continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/rockhoppermedia\/docs\/january_issue_2017__issue_52_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Birmingham Living<\/span><\/strong><\/a> at Issuu.com to read the full interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><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_ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41918 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/christmas24b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/christmas24b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/christmas24b-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2016, and Toyah was the cover star of Birmingham Living magazine &#8211; issue dated January 2017 but published in December 2016 &#8211; with a three-page interview feature accompanied by some great shots of Toyah. Toyah Willcox\u2019s colourful career has taken her from Punk Princess to Splash, Teletubbies and I\u2019m a Celebrity. She never ceases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3285,5,51],"tags":[1709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41916"}],"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=41916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41919,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41916\/revisions\/41919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}