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Toyah Willcox

Toyah Willcox

Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!

Toyah Willcox Talks to BBC Radio Berkshire's Phil Kennedy about life as the lead in the Hexagon's Pantomime Jack And The Beanstalk, turning on Christmas lights and Brad Pitt in a loin cloth.

Toyah Willcox

Toyah Willcox trained as an actress at the Old Rep Drama School in her home town of Birmingham.

She appeared in Derek Jarman's 1977 film Jubilee and 1979's Who album-inspired Quadrophenia.

Toyah hit the charts in 1981 with It's A Mystery and I Want To Be Free.

In 2003 Toyah appeared in the ITV reality show I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here.

She is currently working on a new solo album called in the Court Of The Crimson Queen

Listen to the full interview here or read extracts below:

You're going to be in Panto this year at Reading's Hexagon theatre

That's right, I'm playing Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk.  I'm telling everyone that I'm the oldest Jack in the borough of London, but I'm still a pretty good looking one!

The cast of Jack and the Beanstalk at the Hexagon

Panto's always good fun are you looking forward to it?

Oh year! it is great fun, I love it. We start rehearsals on Monday (26th November). I can't wait I'm a panto addict as well as a panto veteran. I think Panto is a special part of British culture.

You switched on Bracknells lights over the weekend. Who would you have turning on your Christmas Lights.

Oooh it would have to be Brad Pitt, in a loin cloth!

last updated: 29/11/07

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