As Toyah told Johnny, ‘I’ve lost everything.’
Is Toyah herself the real cause of her own downfall? Some, I'm sure will say she is and has only herself to blame. I take a different view. Toyah is not a bad person. Intentionally she has hurt no one. Any hurt that she has inadvertently caused was not deliberate. Toyah made poor choices and cooked up a crazy scheme – a scheme to which Eva agreed. It was not fully thought through. Ridiculously, neither Eva nor Toyah made allowances for the strong possibility that Eva would fall in love with her child and want to keep her. No account was taken of the strength of Mother Nature’s skill of making babies, at least to their mothers and fathers, absolutely the very best that could ever happen to them.
Eva’s love for baby Susie was almost tangible and try as she might to ignore it, Toyah could see that Eva was a mother, desperate to look after her own child. Given that Susie is Aidan’s child too, it adds a layer of even greater poignancy, now that Aidan is dead.
Eventually, as it always does in soaps, and quite often in real life, the truth came out. What she didn’t expect was the devastation that the truth would cause Peter. At 53, he did briefly wonder if he was keen / able to look after a child, but in the brief spell in which he believed himself to be Susie’s dad, he was as thrilled as any new father, only for Susie to be snatched away from him. He is understandably bitter and angry; angry that he has been deceived and angry that he is not Susie’s rightful father, a child in whom he has invested emotionally.
Toyah was desperate for a baby – the hurt that that desperation caused, with Toyah absolutely out of her mind in her desire to have a baby, was not something she even considered. When people are desperate, they do strange things, because they are not thinking rationally. The hurt that will be caused is neither intended nor envisaged. Now, she is a woman with no home, no job, no partner and as Leanne was so furious with her, almost without her sister, though that relationship has now healed.
So, what now for Toyah? She could adopt, single people do, ask surrogate Jackie to try again though with a donor this time, or she could throw herself into a career of her own choosing, a charity post perhaps, helping children by some means.
But before that Toyah seems to be getting her mojo back and not just accepting Peter’s decisions on how to go about selling The Rovers and ‘uncoupling’ their lives. (Uncoupling = an expression first coined by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin on their divorce. We thank them.)
One thing’s for sure. For Toyah, things can only get better, can’t they?
By Ruth Owen, twitter: @ruth1722
Is Toyah herself the real cause of her own downfall? Some, I'm sure will say she is and has only herself to blame. I take a different view. Toyah is not a bad person. Intentionally she has hurt no one. Any hurt that she has inadvertently caused was not deliberate. Toyah made poor choices and cooked up a crazy scheme – a scheme to which Eva agreed. It was not fully thought through. Ridiculously, neither Eva nor Toyah made allowances for the strong possibility that Eva would fall in love with her child and want to keep her. No account was taken of the strength of Mother Nature’s skill of making babies, at least to their mothers and fathers, absolutely the very best that could ever happen to them.
Eva’s love for baby Susie was almost tangible and try as she might to ignore it, Toyah could see that Eva was a mother, desperate to look after her own child. Given that Susie is Aidan’s child too, it adds a layer of even greater poignancy, now that Aidan is dead.
Eventually, as it always does in soaps, and quite often in real life, the truth came out. What she didn’t expect was the devastation that the truth would cause Peter. At 53, he did briefly wonder if he was keen / able to look after a child, but in the brief spell in which he believed himself to be Susie’s dad, he was as thrilled as any new father, only for Susie to be snatched away from him. He is understandably bitter and angry; angry that he has been deceived and angry that he is not Susie’s rightful father, a child in whom he has invested emotionally.
Toyah was desperate for a baby – the hurt that that desperation caused, with Toyah absolutely out of her mind in her desire to have a baby, was not something she even considered. When people are desperate, they do strange things, because they are not thinking rationally. The hurt that will be caused is neither intended nor envisaged. Now, she is a woman with no home, no job, no partner and as Leanne was so furious with her, almost without her sister, though that relationship has now healed.
So, what now for Toyah? She could adopt, single people do, ask surrogate Jackie to try again though with a donor this time, or she could throw herself into a career of her own choosing, a charity post perhaps, helping children by some means.
But before that Toyah seems to be getting her mojo back and not just accepting Peter’s decisions on how to go about selling The Rovers and ‘uncoupling’ their lives. (Uncoupling = an expression first coined by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin on their divorce. We thank them.)
One thing’s for sure. For Toyah, things can only get better, can’t they?
By Ruth Owen, twitter: @ruth1722
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