rejected two Strictly professional dance partners due to their ‘inappropriate age’ before signing up for the BBC show<\/a>.<\/p>\nShe told Daily Mail that bosses were keen to pair her up with Italian Vito Coppola, 32, who’s 34 years her junior, but she refused because of their ‘age discrepancy’.<\/p>\n
In an exclusive interview, Toyah explained that she didn’t want to perform ‘intimate’ routines with someone too ‘young’ so also declined to be partnered with Ukrainian dancer Nikita Kuzmin, 26, due to their 40-year age difference.<\/p>\n
Toyah said she didn’t want a ‘young person’s head near her crotch’, which was echoed by her co-star and Strictly Glitterball contender Sarah Hadland.<\/p>\n
The punk icon, whose hits include the 1981 single Thunder in the Mountains, eventually agreed to team up with Neil Jones, 43, because of his ‘experience’. Together they lasted until week two of the competition.<\/p>\n
Revealing she auditioned to be part of this year’s Strictly lineup in May, Toyah reflected on the ‘nerve-wracking process’, saying she was ‘grateful’ to be Vito’s first pick this season.<\/p>\n
She said: ‘I did my audition with Vito, who is gorgeous and very energetic. He loved me immediately and said, “this is The One, this is The One” and I’m very grateful for that but it was still nerve-wracking.<\/p>\n
‘I told them I did not want to dance with someone when there was a 40-year age discrepancy.<\/p>\n
‘I would have hated to do an intimidate dance with someone that young. I said I really want to be age appropriate and dance with someone who is right for my physicality, and I was asked if I would dance with Nikita and I just said look, it’s going to look so wrong.<\/p>\n
‘I trusted Neil, he has experience and has the same mental experiences as me. Sarah Hadland and I said we don’t want young people’s heads anywhere near our crotches and I don’t want my head anywhere near their crotches…<\/p>\n
‘I said, “Please keep this age appropriate” and the team respected that. Nikita is gorgeous but I didn’t want him to be frustrated performing with an old woman.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toyah Wilcox has announced she is selling her old worn bras for as little as \u00a320 in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,118,18,117,19,876,17,23260,438],"class_list":{"0":"post-372846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-instagram","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-strictly-come-dancing","16":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116188423542087126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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