Strictly fans discover star’s husband is 70s legend and ‘living god’

Strictly Come Dancing fans person been near shocked to observe Toyah Willcox is joined to a bonafide euphony legend.

The singer, histrion and presenter Toyah is of people an icon herself with a drawstring of deed singles and movies nether her belt, possibly astir notably playing Monkey successful The Who movie Quadrophenia.

Now she’s adding Strictly Come Dancing contestant to her CV and subsequently fans of the amusement person conscionable recovered retired she’s joined to Robert Fripp – 1 of the astir prolific guitarists and musicians ever.

A idiosyncratic connected Reddit called thehuxtonator brought Robert’s vocation to Strictly fans’ attention, revealing he’s worked with the likes of David Bowie, Blondie, Talking Heads and Peter Gabriel.

He’s possibly champion known though arsenic guitarist and laminitis of prog-rock set King Crimson, who had 8 apical 10 albums successful the UK.

He was named successful Rolling Stones’ 100 champion guitarists of each clip and possibly the champion information astir Fripp revealed by the Reddit idiosyncratic is: ‘If you’ve ever owned a machine with Windows Vista installed – helium had a portion successful making the commencement up dependable you heard each clip you fired it up.’

‘Anyone other truly blessed to spot a surviving guitar deity successful the assemblage and looking guardant to much fleeting glimpses of his sartorial elegance?’

The abbreviated reply is: yes.

‘Thanks for the info. I had nary thought who helium was, but helium decidedly impressed maine arsenic idiosyncratic with “star quality”,’ responded Reddit idiosyncratic Petunia103.

Wonderer-76 agreed: ‘Thank you, I emotion snippets of trivia similar this. It adds to the amusive of the show.’

Toyah and Robert person been joined since 1986 and present circuit unneurotic aft fans loved videos of them performing covers, performing astatine festivals specified arsenic Isle of Wight and Glastonbury past summer.  

‘We complement each different well, I person a fantastic clip being retired moving with my wife, whitethorn I say, adjacent having greater amusive than erstwhile we were astatine location together,’ Fripp antecedently told The Mirror.

Toyah is partnered with Neil Jones on Strictly Come Dancing and the brace volition execute their archetypal creation of the bid time night.

Responding to the caller contention surrounding Strictly Come Dancing aft Graziano Di Prima was sacked for his alleged attraction to Zara McDermott and the probe into Giovanni Pernice’s grooming techniques, Toyah precocious told Metro the incidents made her carefully see signing up.

‘It made maine instrumentality what’s coming precise seriously,’ she said.

‘What’s happened successful the past twelvemonth is due to the fact that this amusement is 100% committed to dance, and you’ve got to spell beyond your ain idiosyncratic comfortableness zone. That’s ever been very, precise obvious.

‘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.’

Strictly Come Dancing launches time nighttime astatine 7pm connected BBC One.

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