Joey Mellen

{{Short description|British writer}}

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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.{{cite news|title = Q. How do hippy aristocrats broaden their minds? A. They bore holes in their heads|newspaper = Evening Standard |date = 14 September 1995}}Birth date from Bore Hole

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).{{cite news|title = Like a hole in the head|work = The Sunday Independent |date = 31 August 2008 }} Rock Feilding-Mellen was a local councillor and cabinet member for housing, property and regeneration with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.{{cite magazine |last1=O'Hagan |first1=Andrew |author-link1=Andrew O'Hagan |title=The Tower |magazine=London Review of Books |date=7 June 2018 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n11/andrew-ohagan/the-tower}} Following the Grenfell Tower fire and its aftermath, he resigned.

In 1994 Mellen met Jenny Gathorne-Hardy, who was trepanned in 1995.{{Cite news|last=Gathorne-Hardy|first=Jenny |date=16 September 1995 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/health-the-hole-story-of-my-life-1601605.html| title=The Hole Story of my Life|work=The Independent on Sunday}} Their son Rudy Blu was born in 1996 and they were married later that year; their daughter Lily was born in 2012.