PUNK icon Toyah Willcox has been signed up for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing. The 1980s star, 66, got the ballroom bug after going to watch her pal broadcaster Angela Rippon , 79, in the live studio shows last year. 2 Toyah Willcox has been signed up for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, our mock-up of what she might look like on the show 2 The 1980s punk icon has some dance experience from performing her signature jolty dance moves on stage Credit: Getty Toyah, who starred in 1979 cult movie Quadrophenia alongside pop star Sting and actors Ray Winstone and Leslie Ash, has some dance experience from performing her signature jolty dance moves on stage.
When asked in April if she would be up for taking part in the show, Toyah said: “Oh, God yeah. Well, I’d have to do it sooner rather than later, because I’m not going to be able to move like that in two years’ time. “I do understand how hard they work.
I’m friends with Angela Rippon and she was extraordinary.” She added: “But they’re rehearsing 10 hours a day every day. And then on Saturday, they do two shows.
As I went there, they invited me to watch them do the live show. Then at nine o’clock, they film the Sunday show, and I’m thinking, ‘Could I do this?’ “But, you know, the whole world wants to do Strictly, I wouldn’t say no.” Last weekend the Sun on Sunday revealed that the blind comedian Chris McCausland , 46, had signed up to star in this year’s series in a new first for the BBC1.
