{"id":8818,"date":"2012-10-18T08:08:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=8818"},"modified":"2012-10-18T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T07:08:20","slug":"the-telegraph-how-i-stood-up-to-bbc-gropers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-telegraph-how-i-stood-up-to-bbc-gropers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Telegraph: How I Stood Up To BBC Gropers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/celebritynews\/9599844\/Pop-star-Toyah-Willcox-How-I-stood-up-to-BBC-gropers-in-the-Eighties.html#\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/celebritynews\/9599844\/Pop-star-Toyah-Willcox-How-I-stood-up-to-BBC-gropers-in-the-Eighties.html#\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8819\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"telegraph12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/telegraph12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><strong>Pop Star Toyah Willcox: How I stood up to BBC gropers in the Eighties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Toyah Willcox, the pop star, says she stood up to the men sexually assaulting girls at the BBC in the Eighties<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As the list of women who claim to have been subjected to unwelcome male attention at the BBC seems to lengthen daily, Toyah Willcox insists that she at least made it clear that she was having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou either had to stand up to it or play into it,\u201d the feisty 54-year-old pop star informs me at Annabel\u2019s nightclub, where Nicholas Coleridge was launching his novel The Adventuress. \u201cI\u2019m feisty, I always have been, even then. I was deemed quite old at 20, among men, and that probably saved my bacon, in a way. You knew, in any case, that there were certain men that you shouldn\u2019t be alone with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/celebritynews\/9599844\/Pop-star-Toyah-Willcox-How-I-stood-up-to-BBC-gropers-in-the-Eighties.html#\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Star Toyah Willcox: How I stood up to BBC gropers in the Eighties Toyah Willcox, the pop star, says she stood up to the men sexually assaulting girls at the BBC in the Eighties. As the list of women who claim to have been subjected to unwelcome male attention at the BBC seems to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818"}],"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=8818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8928,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8818\/revisions\/8928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}