Toby Willis’s personal life
Toby Willis was born on Apr 29, 1970, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He is the son of Janet Willis and Duane Willis. He has 8 siblings: Samuel Wallis, Elizabeth Willis, Amy Willis, Benjamin Willis, Joseph Willis, Peter Willis, Hank Willis, and Dan Willis. Toby Willis was arrested in Kentucky on September 9, 2016, following his flight there to avoid arrest for a child rape that occurred in Nashville in 2004. On July 11, 2017, Willis pleaded guilty to four counts of child rape.
Cheatham County Circuit Court Clerk Julie Hibbs confirmed that Willis received two 25-year sentences on two counts and two 40-year sentences on the other two. Those sentences will be concurrent, and served at 100 percent, giving Willis a total of 40 years in prison. Here we will discuss his brother’s successful career.
Toby Willis’s brother’s successful career
Dan Willis is an Australia-based English comedian. He originally studied and then worked in Information Technology for over 12 years before moving into live stand-up comedy after the IT crash of 2002. Since then, Willis has performed over 2,000 times at comedy venues and festivals throughout the world, as well as live stand-up.
He also performs two specialist computer comedy shows: Control-Alt-Delete and PC Mac and Me. Gaining an initial love of computers after being bought a ZX Spectrum 48k at 9, Willis chose to study Computer Sciences for his degree at Liverpool University. After graduating, he first worked as a computer support technician at the head office of Meyer Cookware in Liverpool. He then switched to computer programming for Fl group, Eagle Star Insurance, Unisys, Coutts & Co, and Alchemy Data Migration.
Initially starting as a Visual Basic programmer, he quickly retrained in COBOL, PL1, Easytrieve, and DB2 to work on Y2K projects. After Y2K he retrained in ETL tools ACTA, Informatica, and Ab initio, working for 2 years at Alchemy Data Migration before the IT crash of 2002. He won the Time Out Comedy Awards to be a punter representative on the Perrier Panel.
Watching over 80 shows at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival inspired him to become a comedian. Starting in 2002, Willis made his Edinburgh Debut with The Amused Moose Hot Starlets. From there, he has now performed at over 90 international comedy festivals, specializing in solo shows about specific subject matters.
The Willis Family Show
The Willis Family is an American reality television show about a musical family that aired on TLC in 2015 and 2016. The show follows a family of 14 from Nashville, Tennessee, demonstrating their musical and dancing skills while sharing… talents and balancing a life at home. The family of entertainers, known onstage as The Willis Clan, reached the quarter-finals of season 9 of America’s Got Talent Parents Toby and Brenda Willis have 12 children – eight girls and four boys. On September 11, 2016, officials canceled the show following the arrest of Toby Willis on four counts of child rape.
