Strictly Come Dancing’s Toyah Willcox has opened up on her “life-changing” facelift after enduring horrible sexist abuse. The 66-year-old wowed fans with her youthful looks on Strictly's launch show last week. The 80s punk princess first underwent cosmetic surgery in the early 2000s, after “feeling like a victim” as she saw her features begin to age.
The singer shared details of her operation in her 2005 book Diary of a Facelift, and admitted it has changed her life. After being thrilled with the work, Toyah has got more work to have her appearance nipped and tucked. However, it was her stint in the jungle on I’m a Celebrity.
.. Get Me Out Of Here in 2003 that prompted her to finally go under the knife, as she was horrified at the sexist abuse she received from male journalists and TV stars.
“On returning home [from I'm a Celeb], I read various derogatory newspaper articles about my jungle experience, and listened to hurtful comments being made about me on a variety of TV and radio programmes,” she wrote. “Jonathan Ross on his Radio Two show, which has around eight million listeners, said I looked so awful I shouldn't be allowed to be seen on TV, and that I should go away and do something about it,” Toyah sadly recalled. “Various male writers in a number of tabloids backed up this view.
The worst thing was that even though I found opinions such as these little more than an expression of body fascism, secretly I agreed with them.” Toyah did extensive res.