Former wife of Dave Foley and author Tabatha Southey. She didn’t start writing professionally until much later in her life, after having two children, moving back to Toronto in the late 1990s, doing various odd jobs, living in the United States, and working various odd jobs.
On December 31, 1991, she got married, but they later divorced. She and Dave first met at a club in 1983 while looking for vintage clothes when he was just 20 and she was 17. They planned to get married after dating for eight years old and were blessed with two boys.
The couple separated in 1997 after their marriage did not last. On August 1, 2002, he married Crissy Guerrero after divorcing his first wife. Their daughter Alina can be found on Twitter with the handle @Alinafooley. She is a young actress born in 2003.
They separated in 2008. After making amends, they remarried on December 31, 2016. When they disagreed over whether the band’s lead singer, the Psychedelic Furs, was a respectable singer, according to Dave, their relationship has not officially begun. long after they first met. He was married for six years, from 1991 to 1997, to his first wife, and for six years, from 2002 to 2008, to his second wife, Crissy Guerrero.
Dave Foley and Tabathy Southey at the 1994 Emmys
Tabatha Southey Children: Basil and Edmund
Dave and Tabitha’s boys are Basin and Edmund. Both sons share a home with their mother and even bear her last name. Crissy, their sister from another mother, is also theirs.
Edmund was born in 1991, their sister Alina Chiara Foley on April 16, 2003 and Basil Patrick was born in 1995.
All children now reside with their mother because their parents are no longer together. Foley married Canadian author Tabatha Southey on December 31, 1991, but the couple eventually divorced in 1997. The couple had two children.
Foley was obligated to pay Southey $10,700 a month under an interim child support agreement dated 2001, which was determined using his earnings from when NewsRadion was in production.
She went to college when she was 21 and now has nightmares because she missed all six credits. She also took lessons for three days before moving to New York with her partner and abandoning her studies, which she now regrets. However, she provides her intelligent children with a proper education. She is also a very supportive and cheerful mother.
Where is Tabatha Southey now?
Tabatha Southey is currently in Toronto. She recently said on social media that she was heading to Toronto City Hall Chapel.
She previously wrote columns for The Globe and Mail in Toronto, Canada. She was born in Etobicoke, Canada, and is 56 years old. She has the most wonderful eyes and is smart, funny and gorgeous. She has a wonderful laugh and eleven nominations for the National Magazine Awards.
She recently wrote on Facebook that she has COVID. First of all, a few days of COVID are better compared to catching a severe cold the day after winning a marathon and partying the night away with scotch. The unvaccinated were best described as Breathless Hell, so that beats them.
She revealed that the owners recently provided food for their son’s wedding. Fortunately, she receives an invitation to one of her favorite haunts in Toronto.
She was born in Vancouver about nine months after her parents emigrated from South Africa. She was raised in Guelph and left alone at the age of sixteen to live in Toronto.
Tabatha Southey
Tabatha Southey on women, work and writing
We at SDTC HQ are pretty big Tabatha Southey fans. We still read, share and love his work through his monthly comic strips in the Globe and Mail, his children’s book, his missing but never forgotten column at Elle Canada and his incredible Twitter. We emailed the columnist for career and life advice, insight into Tabatha’s day, and some commentary on the most subversive thing a woman can do.
SDTC: To start, can we get some background information: where did you grow up and go to school? How long have you lived in Toronto?
Southey, Tabatha My parents, who had been living in Canada for ten months, had come from South Africa (my mother) and Zimbabwe (my father). I was an anchor baby who was frequently transported across the country and sometimes overseas, but I spent most of my childhood in Guelph. When I was sixteen, I moved to Toronto with the (ultimately) futile aim of completing my high school education beyond the ninth grade level, and (it still surprises me) I finished by working as a columnist for The Globe and Mail.
Tell us a bit about your day-to-day professional life. What does a typical Monday look like to you?
Since I work very hard until at least Thursday when I file, Monday is when I complete tasks that need to be completed but prefer to avoid, such as meetings and lunch-related activities. Sometimes later, especially if a story breaks late in the week or is evolving. Until my column is printed on Friday, I am always available for last minute changes. It bears my name. I am attentive.
I read a lot, both fiction and non-fiction. The writing is not really exciting. When her young daughter, who is carrying a child of a recently deceased sailor, inquires about the delivery, the British drama ‘A Taste of Honey’ mother replies, “Does it hurt, Mum?” If I could, I would say, “It’s mostly a lot of hard work” with a northern accent.
I follow the reports. Since I write comedy columns, the majority of them need a premise and a hook. If I’m lucky, something will work after trying several different concepts. You can make jokes about any subject, but a joke made from the point of view of actual ignorance will never be humorous. No matter how ridiculous the angle I end up choosing may be, I won’t write about a hot topic if I don’t feel like I have a very comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.
What was your very first job? How did you get it?
I had a route for the paper. I asked for it, so I got it. Following my relocation to Toronto, I often held several jobs at the same time. I’ve worked as a babysitter, waiter, retail clerk, and occasionally modeled for hair salons, getting my hair cut for pay. It just got shorter and shorter.
When did you know you wanted to be a writer? How did you start?
For me as a child, reading was almost everything. Because I enjoyed reading so much, the idea of becoming a writer seemed pretentious to me and still does sometimes. Being raised in a church does not usually lead one to believe that he has the right to be God.
Really, I didn’t start writing until my first child was born, when I was about 23. Since getting a haircut doesn’t require much skill, I was able to do it. However, I had failed miserably in school as a youngster (starting in kindergarten), and that experience left me with a strong sense of my own incompetence that has lasted with me to this day.
I never thought I was good at anything until I became a mother, so when I realized I was good at taking care of my child, I started considering my other options. I had always been a talker and was surrounded by great talkers, so I started writing the things I would have said out loud soon after I suddenly found myself single and isolated with a two year old and a newborn to ensure my isolation. Then a woman I met at my child’s preschool and the woman she introduced me to pushed me and pressured me to write professionally, kicking me kicking and shoving and apologizing along the way.
I wrote a children’s book based on a recommendation from one of these two women in hopes that it would guarantee me a quiet, safe place to read to children in public libraries for the rest of my life. But when the newly created National Post recruited this same woman, she insisted that I write for them. I didn’t think I’d really be allowed in, so to speak, even though I love newspapers and read three a day during the quiet hours of my retail job, but I had prepared a little joke and I finally emailed this to her.
The premise of the pitch was that since I had already been married to an actor, the only thing I was qualified to write was an article similar to the Toronto Star’s vintage “Dinner Date” column featuring celebrity profiles :S There was one thing I knew how to do was go out to dinner, pretend to be interested in your career, and get a recipe. I mentioned that I wanted to create a column called “Drunk With Men”. The National Post accepted my pitch exactly as stated, without any “shit,” allowed me to observe Weekend Post story sessions, and published all of my work for the next two years. These meetings have served as my J-school, and I really appreciate it.
What’s the best job advice you’ve ever received?
You need to “Ask yourself ‘Is this useful to the reader’ or “If you want editors to like you, always include a subject line in your email” if you want their approval.
What do you do when you’re not working?
There’s always more writing to do, even after you file. In addition to writing, I also read, walk Tulip, cook for friends and swim almost every day. Swimming is so important to my mental health that I consider it part of my writing.
Do you have writing rituals, a favorite place to work, or an energy drink that you consume on schedule?
No, it’s not magic; it is written.
What advice would you give to women wanting to get into writing?
Learn one thing before writing anything else. Learn about electronics, books, music, politics, wine or winemaking. You don’t have to write exclusively about this topic (but strive to be the go-to woman on this topic), and you shouldn’t let this topic define what it means to be a woman. Be prepared to face and refute the idea that the only thing a woman can tell a man is what it’s like to have a vagina.
That’s not to say personal writing can’t be done beautifully, and I think having a vagina is fantastic, but a career centered around having a vagina won’t last, and – contrary to what Desperate editors and clickbait will have you believe – confessing isn’t revolutionary for women. The land of victimhood, which borders “I’ve been a naughty girl,” is also overused (True Confessions magazine had two million readers in the 1930s).
Be joyful because it’s the most subversive thing a woman can be.
