Millicent Binks
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Millicent Binks is an International burlesque
dancer and current sex columnist for the London Evening Standard
.
England. Her father is a nuclear physicist and her mother is a linguist. She attended dance lessons all through her childhood but had to stop when she developed M.E at age 15 and had to be home schooled for two years. In this time she grew to love literature because reading and listening to audiobooks was all she could do. She recovered, and at age 19 moved to London
with a huge lust for life.
career, but kept writing for her own pleasure.
In April 2011 the London Evening Standard
approached her to be their new sex columnist
. Her writing style is tongue in cheek and humorous, whilst documenting the sex life of herself and her friends such as Annette Betté Kellow
in London
with an unashamed post feminist attitude, regularly commenting on fashion and lingerie, with a readership of up to 2 million every week.
and burlesque
she came across in London, she decided to try it herself, combing her love of costume, dance and old fashioned femininity, believing burlesque to be a post feminist art form.
She debuted at a valentine’s burlesque show at Lounge Lover London in 2008, where she performed her ‘English Rose Show’ which got known as her signature act in which she plucks giant petals from her girdle. She soon became a regular on the cabaret circuit in London, then branched out to many European burlesque nights.
She performed her English Rose show in 2009 at The Gentry De Paris Revue with Dita Von Teese
who Millicent is greatly influenced by.
Her performance residencies have been at White Blackbird Country House Parties (the first of which she famously posed in a bath of hot chocolate) and at a monthly burlesque night in Istanbul.
On her journey she has met her artistic partner Annette Betté Kellow
who she has recently started a band with called Sister Darling.
magazine Knickers Forever in August 2009.
She is the face of Jean Ellis Millinery
She was the face of Les Nereides Jewellery 2010.
She has modeled for many lingerie brands including Mint Siren, Playful Promises and What Katie Did >
She is featured as a pinup girl in the hit iPhone app ‘pocketcock’.
Burlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
dancer and current sex columnist for the London Evening Standard
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...
.
Early years
Binks grew up in SuffolkSuffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
England. Her father is a nuclear physicist and her mother is a linguist. She attended dance lessons all through her childhood but had to stop when she developed M.E at age 15 and had to be home schooled for two years. In this time she grew to love literature because reading and listening to audiobooks was all she could do. She recovered, and at age 19 moved to London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
with a huge lust for life.
Writing
When Binks first moved to London she enrolled on a Creative Writing Degree at the University of Roehampton which she dropped out of after 3 months to pursue a burlesqueBurlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
career, but kept writing for her own pleasure.
In April 2011 the London Evening Standard
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...
approached her to be their new sex columnist
Sex columnist
A sex columnist is a writer of a newspaper or magazine column about sex.Sex advice columns may take the form of essays or, more frequently, answers to questions posed by readers. Sex advice columns can usually be found in alt weekly newspapers, women's magazines, health or fitness magazines, and...
. Her writing style is tongue in cheek and humorous, whilst documenting the sex life of herself and her friends such as Annette Betté Kellow
Annette Betté Kellow
Annette Betté Kellow is a London based Actress, scriptwriter and Burlesque dancer.- Early years :Annette was born in 1985 in Ilfracombe, Devon where she grew up with Italian relatives in the countryside and the south east of Italy, Guglionesi....
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
with an unashamed post feminist attitude, regularly commenting on fashion and lingerie, with a readership of up to 2 million every week.
Burlesque
Fascinated with the performance artPerformance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
and burlesque
Burlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
she came across in London, she decided to try it herself, combing her love of costume, dance and old fashioned femininity, believing burlesque to be a post feminist art form.
She debuted at a valentine’s burlesque show at Lounge Lover London in 2008, where she performed her ‘English Rose Show’ which got known as her signature act in which she plucks giant petals from her girdle. She soon became a regular on the cabaret circuit in London, then branched out to many European burlesque nights.
She performed her English Rose show in 2009 at The Gentry De Paris Revue with Dita Von Teese
Dita Von Teese
Dita Von Teese is an American burlesque dancer, model, costume designer, author and actress.-Early life:...
who Millicent is greatly influenced by.
Her performance residencies have been at White Blackbird Country House Parties (the first of which she famously posed in a bath of hot chocolate) and at a monthly burlesque night in Istanbul.
On her journey she has met her artistic partner Annette Betté Kellow
Annette Betté Kellow
Annette Betté Kellow is a London based Actress, scriptwriter and Burlesque dancer.- Early years :Annette was born in 1985 in Ilfracombe, Devon where she grew up with Italian relatives in the countryside and the south east of Italy, Guglionesi....
who she has recently started a band with called Sister Darling.
Acting
Millicent has starred in three short films by Marcus Waterloo.- La Mer D’amour by Marcus Waterloo (2008) Short Film (Shortlisted for Virgin Media Shorts 2009)
- Little Troubles by Marcus Waterloo (2010) Short Film
- Black Widow by Marcus Waterloo (2010) Short Film
Modeling
Millicent modeled for and was interviewed by the Agent ProvocateurAgent Provocateur
Agent Provocateur is the fifth studio album by American/British rock band Foreigner, released in 1984. A concept album, the songs tell the story of a spy who sees life through both the inside and the outside. The album was the band's first and only number one album in the UK, and it reached the top...
magazine Knickers Forever in August 2009.
She is the face of Jean Ellis Millinery
She was the face of Les Nereides Jewellery 2010.
She has modeled for many lingerie brands including Mint Siren, Playful Promises and What Katie Did >
She is featured as a pinup girl in the hit iPhone app ‘pocketcock’.
External links
- millicentbinks.com Millicent Binks Official website.
- thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle Millicent’s first sex column in the Evening Standard