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By YORK MEMBERY Published: 10:14 BST, 1 April 2025 | Updated: 10:14 BST, 1 April 2025
We catch up with singer, actress and TV presenter Toyah Willcox on her top holiday spots and why she was regularly strip-searched on arrival at certain destinations during her early years touring.Earliest holiday memory? Playing on the estuary between Rock and Padstow in Cornwall, aged two or three. My siblings and I spent all day in an out of the water and I snacked on everything from candyfloss to cockles.First trip abroad?Jersey when I was seven. I fell in love with the island. Among the highlights was visiting Devil’s Hole, a 200ft deep crater, but I was disappointed that we didn’t get to meet the Devil. Toyah Willcox speaks exclusively to the Mail Toyah Willcox’s first trip abroad was to Jersey at the age of seven. A highlight for her was Devil’s Hole (pictured), a natural crater on the north coast of the island, measuring about 100ft Toyah performing at Rewind South Festival in Henley-on-Thames in 2023. She will also be performing at Rewind Dublin, Rewind at Dreamland and Rewind Cork later this yearEarliest touring memory? My frustration as a vegetarian on learning that everything food-wise in Germany arrived with bacon, even the cabbage.How’s touring changed?On my first UK tour in 1977 I travelled to gigs on a motorbike; now I drive in my car or have a driver.Most exotic gig?A clifftop concert in Bali with the likes of Belinda Carlisle in front of a cruise ship audience watching from the sea below. Sadly, I had to catch a flight back to the UK the next day to play at Butlin’s in Bognor.Ever fallen foul of customs?In 1979-80 I was considered a ‘punk rocker’ and on landing in Sweden and Finland my band and I were taken off to a room and strip-searched. Toyah was considered a ‘punk’ in her early career, and lived in a converted British Rail warehouse called ‘Mayhem’, which she also used as her studioFavourite hotel?The Country Park, on the Hull estuary.Your dream destination? I would love to revisit Bermuda and Belize, both of which are special to me.For info on Toyah’s forthcoming festival appearances visit toyahwillcox.com.
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Strictly star Toyah Willcox reveals why she was strip-searched in Sweden
