Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz are getting in on the Oscars celebrations ahead of the 2023 ceremony.
26.02.2023 - 11:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A playwright who shares his name with the lead singer of rock band Bring Me The Horizon has been thanked by his famous namesake for replying to more than 1,000 emails meant for him. Oli Sykes set an the email account under his own name when he was 16.
But just a couple of years later, while in his second year of a theatre studies degree at Lancaster University, that same email would bring 'absolute chaos' into his life. Within a week of the release of BMTH's second album Suicide Season, avid fans of the multi-million selling alternative metal act began bombarding Oli's inbox with messages for their hero.
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"My inbox started piling up with messages – predominantly from teenage girls – desperately trying to contact Oli Sykes," he said. "I had about 30 or 40 people telling me how much they loved 'me' and 'my album'. I just remember thinking, ‘what am I going to do?"
But due to the nature of some of the messages Oli felt like he couldn't just ignore them. Many of the young people who mistakenly contacted him wanted to share their struggles with mental health or explain intimate parts of their lives.
Oli, now 34, had experienced his own struggles with depression and anxiety so vowed to respond to each and every one. "I was a student and completely unequipped to help or do anything about it, but I couldn't just leave them unread – not when they were baring so much of themselves," he said.
"Initially, I started sending responses to each person saying, 'Thank you for your message. I'm not actually the Oli Sykes that you want to contact, but I'm really sorry to hear about what you're going through and I wish you all the best. Here's a link to the charity, Mind'.
"I'm not the sort of person that could just pop them in
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