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Millicent Binks
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Occupation(s)Writer, performance artist
Website www.millicentbinks.co.uk

Millicent Binks is an English writer and performance artist. She wrote a column about her life in The London Evening Standard . [1]

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Early years

Binks grew up in Suffolk, England. Her father is a nuclear physicist and her mother is a linguist.

Writing

When Binks first moved to London she enrolled on a Creative Writing degree which she dropped out of after three months to pursue a burlesque performance 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 her and her friends' sex lives in London regularly commenting on fashion and lingerie, with a readership of up to 2 million every week. [2] In October 2018 she was on the cover of The Sunday Times Magazine for a piece she wrote about chatting up men in different personae. [3]

Performance

Fascinated with the performance art and burlesque she came across in London, she decided to try it herself, combining her love of costume, dance and characterisation. She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Costume Interpretation from Wimbledon College of Arts. [4] She performed her English Rose show at The Gentry de Paris Revue, who Binks is greatly influenced by. [5] She has performed all over Europe and had a monthly residency in Istanbul. [6] Binks has performed for British BAFTA Award-winning Artist Alison Jackson. [7]

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  2. (2011.04.19) "After hours: Girls like us cost a sugar daddy lots of Louboutins | Life & Style". Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011.. thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle. Retrieved 2011.09.08
  3. Binks, Millicent. "Sex and dating in 2018: What do men really find attractive in women?".
  4. "Home". millicentbinks.co.uk.
  5. runninginheels.co.uk Retrieved 2011.09.10
  6. "After hours: I give my all in exotic Istanbul | Life & Style". Archived from the original on 2 May 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011. thisislondon.co.uk Retrieved 2011.09.10
  7. "Official Website. Millicent Binks, Writer and Performance Artist". www.millicentbinks.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018.