Strictly's Toyah Willcox reveals the body transformation that has left her husband 'very upset'

The punk vocalist says the ballroom rehearsals person had a precise unexpected effect

Strictly Come Dancing contestant Toyah Willcox says that six hours of creation grooming each time has made her bust vanish - overmuch to her husband’s dismay. But the popular star, 66, besides reports that each her aches and pains person vanished and she has besides mislaid fractional a chromatic acknowledgment to the intensive sessions with nonrecreational spouse Neil Jones.

The bookies placed her arsenic 1 of the favourites for the footwear ever since her tango past play drew conscionable 12 points from the judges. Now Toyah admits she volition “cry for a week” erstwhile she gets voted off. The punk vocalist said her 78-year-old hubby Robert Fripp, formerly of King Crimson, had been shocked by her value loss. “I’ve already mislaid astatine slightest fractional a stone. I conscionable can’t devour capable to support the value on,” she explained. “He’s precise upset astir my apical fractional disappearing. And it has wholly disappeared.”

That said, she reckons each the workout has taken years disconnected her. “I consciousness however I felt erstwhile I was 25. It’s this happening ‘use it oregon suffer it’. I came into this amusement with rather a batch of aches and pains and they’ve gone. It’s astounding however regular workout and happiness tin alteration the full of your physiology. It’s incredible. I consciousness great. I’m flat-chested, but I consciousness great.”

Toyah said that, successful truth, her hubby is enjoying the acquisition astir arsenic overmuch arsenic she is, adjacent though it means helium is surviving by himself for overmuch of the week portion she stays successful London to cram successful arsenic overmuch grooming arsenic possible. “He’s cooking for himself which is simply a large accomplishment successful 38 years of marriage,” she laughed. “He’s loving being portion of it. He loves the costumes, helium loves the music. He’s truly blessed that I’ve got a truly large spouse and he’s fallen successful emotion with the amusement which helium didn’t deliberation helium would.”

Although she misses Robert, Toyah is hopeless to enactment successful the contention with Neil. “I’m not acceptable to spell home, I’m loving each minute. My hubby is 78 and each 2nd of clip with him is very, precise precious but helium knows that I’m loving this and he’s been generous capable to fto maine beryllium present without making immoderate demands connected maine whatsoever.”

She said getting voted disconnected volition beryllium devastating. “I volition honestly person to set to not being successful this unthinkable acquisition if I spell out. We person a precise concealed spot we spell to successful the UK, which is by the sea, and I volition astir apt spell determination and outcry for a week and past get backmost to my mean life.”

But she’s hoping that her jive past nighttime volition curry capable favour with the viewers to support her successful a spot longer. “This is everything I’ve ever wanted successful beingness - I’m astatine Elstree, I’m successful the astir astonishing programme, I’m with Neil. I’m having the enactment of my life. I conscionable don’t privation to spell backmost and cook!”

Neil, 42, said helium was thoroughly enjoying moving with Toyah. “She finds joyousness successful everything,” helium marvelled. "We’ll spell down to costume and she’s putting connected her outfit and telling them ‘this is the astir beauteous dress, you’re a genius, I emotion you all’. Everywhere she walks they spot however overmuch emotion she has for this show. If they enactment the lights connected she’ll spell ‘oh my deity these lights are amazing.’ It conscionable makes maine grin that she finds the joyousness successful each ounce of her life.”

Having been likened to a springbok by caput justice Shirley Ballas past week, she joked she’d intended to beryllium a “cougar” with Neil for her jive. “Or a milf,” she quipped. She said that the harsh comments she’s received from the judges, peculiarly Shirley and Craig Revel Horwood who each gave her 2 points the archetypal week, made her consciousness arsenic though she was dancing “in beforehand of the firing squad”. Despite this, she hasn’t been enactment off. “We are not the show, the amusement is the show, this is amusement and it’s not astir the idiosyncratic astatine all.

“So I’ll instrumentality it connected the chin, immoderate they say. I cognize I’m doing my best. I’m not going to effort and beryllium astute astir it, I conscionable virtually privation to effort and amended and enactment successful the game.” And showing her trademark positivity Toyah added: “It’s astir apt amended to get a truly startling atrocious reappraisal than it is to get a aureate review, particularly disconnected Craig, due to the fact that helium makes everything truthful celebrated and memorable truthful possibly we tin go the radical helium truly goes for.”

Strictly Come Dancing airs contiguous astatine 6.15pm connected BBC1 and BBC iPlayer

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