Toyah Willcox's surprise Benedict Cumberbatch meeting as star goes incognito in campervan
express.co.uk"I had to train for this movie and I went to Barry in Wales in a campervan. I was cold water swimming every day and no one knew it was me.
No one."Born in Birmingham and spending much of her young adult life in London, Toyah also opened up about her memories of holidaying in caravan parks as a child.The TV presenter revealed this was one of the first moments she met another A-list star over five decades ago but admitted she didn't understand the "hysteria" being just six-years-old at the time - Sir Rod Stewart visited a caravan park her family also stayed."It's a little known part about my life that I think was the happiest time.
It was from the moment I was born until about 25 where every weekend was spent at, what I think was paradise, and it was a caravan park called Wyre Mill Club," Toyah commented."It was such a privilege to be able to have my weekends on a caravan and my life expanded."It became what I wanted it to be.
Every Friday afternoon, when school finished at 4pm, we all bundled into a car and drove 24 miles away from Birmingham to the River Avon, where we had a caravan."Addressing her chance meeting with Sir Rod, she recalled: "A lot of the older kids in this community were racing drivers and built their own cars."My brother was one of them and Rod [Stewart] came to look at a racing car.
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