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Neena Kennaway-Blavins

Neena was born as "Corrina Joy Elizabeth Blavins" on March 16,1977. She was born 3 months prematurely and was named after the Bob Dylan song "Corrina, Corrina". Her paternal ancestors hailed from County Armagh and County Cork in Ireland before spreading worldwide - mainly to New York, Arkansas, Georgia USA and New Zealand as well as Britain. Her name was changed to "Neena" as a child by her Godparents using it as a nickname that stuck and she now goes by this name. She attended Adswood Primary School and Cheadle Hulme High School until she left school to study nursing and going on to work as a nurse specialising in Cerebral Palsy, before being diagnosed with a brain tumour when she was 23 years old. She then left her nursing career but refused to be unemployed and changed career track into retail, where she still works. She also married aged 23, although she uses her beloved late Grandmother's maiden name of "Kennaway" in public and only uses her actual marital name in her private life. She's a strong-willed woman who fights for animal rights and does voluntary work for animal charity PDSA to help raise money to provide medical care for animals in need, especially those that belong to low income families. She's also known for rescuing animals herself and will take in almost anything from wild fieldmice to her most recent adoptee, a Border Collie dog called Ella who has well and truly settled into part of the family. Hunting and animal cruelty are things that are guaranteed to enrage her and she's not afraid to put her views forward. She once tried to sabotage a fox hunt as a teenage girl with the use of aniseed balls and catapults - the aniseed kills the scent of the fox so the hounds can't trace it. Away from her love of animals, she also loves driving and weapons training and she also likes to read a lot and she writes critics reviews for Lovefilm. She also writes her own horror stories but she tends to write for her own pleasure rather than aiming for publication. She's also a self-confessed Facebook addict who goes online at least once each day, although she says "I'm trying to wean myself and live my real life rather than my virtual life" Musically she has varying tastes and calls herself a "Music Whore" although if she could only choose one type of music to listen to, she'd opt for Rock music as she was raised listening to The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath etc and it really influenced her musical tastes. Her own faves are Eagles Of Death Metal, Queens Of The Stone Age, Paul Weller, Marilyn Manson, INXS, Korn, Mudvayne...............etc. Her first ever gig was INXS where she got to the front row and managed to stand infront of her crush, Tim Farriss and she had her hand held by Michael Hutchence (she was only 12 years old), but her two most recent gigs were both last year, when she saw her beloved Eagles Of Death Metal in April and then she saw Marilyn Manson in December (and got to the front on both occasions - this girl is nothing if not determined). She even made Brian Warner laugh by saying "That's the good thing about being small but busty - bounce 'em outta the way and then slip under their beer-arms and get infront!"