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Joey Mellen

Joey Mellen

British writer

Joseph Mellen (born September 1939) is the British-born author of Bore Hole, a book about his attempts at self-trepanation, influenced by Bart Huges, and his eventual success with the help of his partner Amanda Feilding.[1][2]

Mellen and Feilding lived together from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. They had two sons, Rock Basil Hugo Feilding-Mellen (born 1979) and Cosmo Birdie Feilding-Mellen (born 1985).[3] Rock Feilding-Mellen was a local councillor and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.[4] Following the Grenfell Tower fire and its aftermath, he resigned.

In 1994 Mellen met Jenny Gathorne-Hardy, who was trepanned in 1995.[5] Their son Rudy Blu was born in 1996 and they were married later that year; their daughter Lily was born in 2012.

References

  1. [1]
    "Q. How do hippy aristocrats broaden their minds? A. They bore holes in their heads". Evening Standard. 14 September 1995.
  2. [2]
    Birth date from Bore Hole
  3. [3]
    "Like a hole in the head". The Sunday Independent. 31 August 2008.
  4. [4]
    O'Hagan, Andrew (7 June 2018). "The Tower". London Review of Books.
  5. [5]
    Gathorne-Hardy, Jenny (16 September 1995). "The Hole Story of my Life". The Independent on Sunday.

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