She’s a reality TV favourite, romance author and Jungle winner – and today Georgia “Toff” Toffolo is also a Dancing Queen.
The star transformed into the fifth member of Abba for a photoshoot and admits that she is a huge fan of the Swedish supergroup.
“I have always loved Abba,” says Toff. “For my 13th birthday I asked for a record player and the first vinyl I bought was Abba Gold. I used to just play it on repeat.
“Every single nightclub I’m in I always request Abba, but if you go through a break-up, they’ve got songs for that. There is an Abba song to connect with every single thing you go through in life.”
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Toff, who made her Abba transformation for a Jaffa Cakes campaign aimed at encouraging people to “be what they want to be”, first found fame on Made In Chelsea back in 2014.
And since winning I’m A Celebrity in 2017, she has built a flourishing career online thanks to paid partnerships with fashion and beauty brands for which she can earn up to £5,200 per post.
The 26-year-old reckons that’s as good a way to earn a living as any these days. She says: “I don’t like how it’s frowned upon to say you’re an influencer or you’re in social media – it’s like it’s a dirty thing. It’s really not. It’s very lucrative.
“You see the ad spend of the biggest corporations in the world and they are spending it on people with large followings because they have influence and they connect with people. I’m a big fan of social media.
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“For me the past year, I’ve been really lucky because that world of mine has just continued as normal. In fact, I’ve had a lot more time to dedicate to my social media because I haven’t been able to do anything else.”
Last week fellow jungle star Emily Atack revealed how she gets constant sexual harassment and unwanted pictures online but Toff has mostly managed to escape that sort of attention.
“All I have is one weirdo who begs for photographs of my toes and another one who likes my legs when I’m wearing tights,” she says.
“Occasionally I’ll get a bit of a saucy message from a bloke but no-one sends me d*** pics. It must be horrific and I really feel for her.
“I think about social media in a positive way because I’ve had a positive experience. I know it’s not the same for everyone. But we can’t hide from it – it’s a blessing but a curse at the same time.”
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Toff admits she has struggled with the past year as she is a social person and not used to spending so much time on her own. But she has kept up her friendship with Jungle campmate and Boris’s dad Stanley Johnson, 80.
She says: “He’s better at tech than I am. He’s really good with WhatsApp and FaceTime and we really keep in touch. He’s had both of his vaccines now, which is so lovely.
“It was his 40th wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago and we did a video for them. I think they loved it because of course they can’t see any of their children.”
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Toff is also pals with Boris’s fiancée Carrie Symonds – and feels some of the criticism levelled at her for her alleged influence over the PM has been unfair.
Toff – who was once dubbed “Boris in a bikini” for her Tory views – says: “I wonder whether it is because she’s a glam young woman with an interest in politics. Maybe it was inevitable she would be portrayed in a different light – but I compare her to Philip May (Theresa May’s husband) and we weren’t reading about him every day.”
The Devon-born star has also been busy with Meet Me In Hawaii – the second in her four-strong series of romance novels for Mills & Boon.
Out now, it follows heroine Malie, who starts a job at a surf school on the paradise island and meets Todd Masters when she rescues him from the sea. “It’s a little bit saucy, there’s loads of sexual tension and I think it would have been a travesty it we didn’t have a little bit of sex,” says Toff.
“It’s not like full frontal bonking, it’s a light dusting of hanky-panky.
“I’m a hopeless romantic. I love the idea of fairy tales and happy ever after so the storylines were really easy.
“There are bits of people I know and love but there’s not like an 80-year-old ex-politician you would know would be Stanley Johnson.”
She would love for the books to be made into films one day and her dream casting would be Robert Pattinson as Todd and Margot Robbie as Malie.
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Toff would also like to try writing something “a bit more nitty-gritty, maybe crime” next.
For now reality TV is off the table – unless Strictly comes calling – and just like the rest of us, Toff is looking forward to the lifting of lockdown.
She adds: “It’s not long now until we can have a p*ss-up in the park – I’ll be sat there with my plastic glasses!”
●Toff has been transformed into the fifth member of Abba to celebrate the launch of McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes’ new campaign, which is aimed at inspiring people to “be what they want to be”.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
