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Toyah Wilcox's career over the last 18 years has seen her with 13 top 40 singles and 15 solo albums. She has written 2 books, appeared in over 20 stage plays and made 10 feature films!
The last 2 years have been the busiest of Toyahs life. She has performed 446 shows to over half a million people. Eleven of those shows where for a Here and Now tour, where she realised her ambition of playing Wembley to sixteen thousand enthusiasts. The majority were for her starring role in Calamity Jane, which was nominated for the Manchester Evening News Best Musical in November 2002 and went on to be a huge success in Londons West End. She is due to revive the role in 2005.
She presented the programme Life Class for HTV West, looking into the drawings of the human figure, which won an award at the 2002 Columbus International Film & Video Festival in the USA and also presented the last programme to come from Birminghams legendary TV studio BBC Pebble Mill. Alongside all this she took time out to survive 12 long days and nights in the Australian Jungle for ITVs Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here in May 2003.
Her first Novel We Have Angels Here, is out at Christmas and her first self penned one-woman show hits British Theatres between June and July. On top of all this she is making two TV series one for ITV1 and the second for FIVE. And Q Magazine gave a huge thumbs up to her latest album Velvet Lined Shell.
Toyahs presenting career began back in 1992 with a show called 1st Night for Mentorn Barraclough Carey. This soon resulted in many offers, she was asked to present Meridians Anything Goes and a BBC1 series Discovering Eve. She also became the only female ever to play the title role in the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Peter Pan, which received massive critical acclaim.
In 1996 Toyah presented The Good Sex Guide Late for Carlton Television every Friday night as part of the new late-night series of programmes. She also began a long-standing relationship with the BBC where she has since presented the Holiday programme, Fasten your Seatbelts, Face Value, a Songs of Praise special and The Heaven & Earth Show.
In keeping in with her musical background, she became a face of VH1 presenting a series of programmes namely Into the Music, Weekend Review, her own show Toyah then Toyah & Chase and Happy Hour.
During the year 2000 Toyah reported for Paradise Found (ITV) where she spent a week at a retreat in Santa Barbara away from her stressful work routine to go on an adventure to find her true self! She also presented a series for BBC Open University called Ever Wonder and became a team captain for Meridians property quiz show Under Offer. The following year Toyah presented an alternative health series for Discovery Health called Beyond Medicine and Whose Recipe is it Anyway? a food show for the Carlton Food Network.
In August 2000 Toyahs autobiography Living Out Loud was released.
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