What's happened to...Toby Froud?

Arguably one of the greatest childhood films ever made, it still gives many adults a secret pleasure to watch Bowie strut around in tight leggings, surrounded by Henson's goblins, fairies and fire creatures. But what became of the red-and-white striped jumpsuit-wearing infant Toby, he who was kidnapped by Bowie's Goblin King, forcing brattish 14-year-old Sarah (Jennifer Connelly, displaying early woodenness) on an epic quest to get him back?

Played by Toby Froud, he's the son of Brian and Wendy Froud, the designers on Labyrinth, who handed the toddler over to coo, stare and crawl around in the motion picture. Rather than being scarred for life, Froud embraced puppeteering, performance and filming. After studying in London, he apprenticed at the muppet workshop in New York and on the Lord of the Rings in New Zealand. Remember Scissor Sisters' opener at the 2005 Brits, when the pink flamingo hatched two golden eggs containing Jake Shears and Ana Matronic? That was little Toby pulling the strings.

He still works closely with his parents - and at www.worldoffroud.com you can marvel at their creations, and get details of comic conventions, exhibitions and an annual faerieworlds festival, whatever that is. Recently he's been a stilt-walker, and a dancing bear with a troupe that has toured England. He makes puppets himself, and is working on a short film featuring his creations, as well as some projects with his dad. Is there no end to the boy's talents?