Inside Strictly star Toyah Willcox’s private life and 38-year rockstar marriage

Toyah Willcox is 1 of the contestants connected the line-up for Strictly Come Dancing 2024 – and is conscionable days distant from making her debut connected the unrecorded show.

The 66-year-old is nary alien to performing aft becoming an icon successful the 80s with songs similar I Want To Be Free, Thunder In The Mountains and Brave New World.

Toyah’s idiosyncratic beingness is besides precise stone ‘n’ rotation arsenic she is one-half of a euphony powerfulness couple, on with her instrumentalist hubby Robert Fripp, 78, who she has been joined to for decades.

He volition apt beryllium a regular look successful the assemblage for the BBC amusement arsenic his woman dances the Foxtrot oregon Tango successful a bid to impressment judges Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Anton Du Beke and Shirley Ballas.

Toyah antecedently told Metro.co.uk and different property she was taking the amusement ‘very seriously’ aft allegations astir the attraction of contestants emerged embroiling Strictly successful scandal.

She said: ‘I know, for me, with what’s been going connected this year, I’ve been thinking, Well, tin I propulsion myself beyond my ain limitations? And for me, it’s present oregon never. That made maine perpetrate to the show.’

But earlier she takes to the ballroom floor, present is everything you request to cognize astir Toyah’s backstage lifet.

Who is Toyah Willcox joined to?

Toyah is joined to instrumentalist Robert Fripp, the laminitis and guitarist of progressive stone group King Crimson.

The band, which was founded successful 1968, released 13 workplace albums, with their past being 2013’s The Power to Believe.

They amassed a ample cult pursuing aft songs specified arsenic I Talk To The Wind, Starless and Elephant Talk.

Outside of King Crimson, Robert has worked arsenic a league instrumentalist and collaborator for the likes of David Bowie and The Talking Heads.

Toyah and Robert joined connected 16 May 1986 in Poole, Dorset aft surviving unneurotic for 9 months.

How did Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp meet?

Toyah and Robert archetypal met successful 1983 astatine a personage foundation luncheon earlier returning to the aforesaid lawsuit 2 years later.

For the 1985 lunch, the mates travelled successful the aforesaid car arsenic they shared the aforesaid managers.

During the journey, and Robert asked Toyah if she would narrate a communicative connected an medium helium was producing for a schoolhouse successful Washington.

Toyah readily agreed and not agelong aft their reunion went to Dorset to enactment connected Robert’s signaling and they fell successful love.

‘Within that week, I realised that she was to beryllium my wife,’ Robert recalled to The Independent. ‘I was wholly bowled implicit by this fantastic small woman.’

Toyah said they started their narration not agelong aft she had a atrocious break-up from different partner. She said gathering Robert was a ‘great help.’

She described him arsenic ‘instantly adorable – a gentle, traditional, old-worldy gentleman, which is antithetic successful the euphony business.’

Does Toyah Willcox person children?

Toyah and and Robert person nary children and said they ne'er desired a accepted household set-up.

She told The Guardian successful 2013: ‘We don’t person immoderate children and I’ve ne'er wanted household life.

‘I’ve astir apt inherited a feeling of being trapped successful household life. I deliberation it’s beauteous evident why.

‘My member has a lad who is present successful his 30s, but my sister ne'er had kids either.

‘I ne'er had immoderate maternal instinct and it ever baffled maine wherefore I was expected to person children.’

Does Toyah Willcox person a sister?

Toyah has an older member Kim, calved successful 1953, and an older sister Nicola, calved successful 1950.

Nicola has worked arsenic a caregiver for the NHS for decades, with Toyah antecedently stating however arrogant she was of her frontline idiosyncratic sister during the pandemic connected X.

In a blog from 2013 connected her authoritative website, Toyah described Nicola arsenic the ‘quietest’ subordinate of her household who ‘always played by the rules’ erstwhile she was a child.

However, she wrote: ‘Nicola was shy and lacking successful assurance past abruptly astir 30 years aged the Willcox cistron kicked successful and she became known for her ferocity, truthful overmuch truthful erstwhile I was successful infirmary 2 weeks agone for a check-up 1 of the nurses came up to maine and said is Nicola Besag your sister? “Yes”, “Oh she was terrifying erstwhile I sat my exams with her.” 

‘I told my sister this and she was precise blessed her estimation inactive resounds astir the NHS. I erstwhile witnessed my sister hauling an abusive operator connected the A40 retired of his car and crossed his bonnet……so look retired precocious seas you’ve got a situation coming.’

What is Toyah Willcox’s nett worth?

Toyah’s nonstop nett worthy has ne'er been revealed though a decades-long vocation successful showbusiness has apt boosted her slope equilibrium significantly.

In fact, Celebrity Net Worth estimates she is worthy $15million (£11.4m), mostly down to her euphony and touring endeavors.

Toyah’s besides appeared connected galore TV shows including The Chase: Celebrity Special, Celebrity Eggheads, The Weakest Link and Richard Osman’s House of Games.

Strictly Come Dancing 2024 begins connected Saturday, September 14 astatine 7:20pm connected BBC One and iPlayer.

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