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•After Oli ends the band, he wants to go back and live with his parents.

•He is deathly afraid of roller coasters.

•He hates being told what to do.

•He was once addicted to Ketamine.

•He was a vegetarian after watching one of Peta's short videos on how meat is produced and then later became Vegan (in 2013) And was voted Hottest Man by PETA2's magazine.

•He has 54 tattoos

•He dropped out of High School.

•His favorite name for a girl is Holly.

•He is 6 feet tall.

•Oli suffers from Sleep paralysis. He has said in an interview with K! Magazine: "Sometimes, I wake up but my body can't move whatsoever, and you tend to hallucinate and you'll be dreaming lucidly while you're awake but it's always like this really scary shit happens to you, and it feels real. It's scary and that's kind of weird." he reveals to Gun Shy Assasin & K! Magazine.

•He likes to meditate which helps lessen the occurrence of his sleep paralysis

•Oli doesn't believe in the Christian god, but believes in something higher.

•He is obsessed with Dominoes Pizza.

•He attended Stocksbridge High School.

•He has a brother named Tom Sykes.

•Oli's rapper name used to be Grand Master Syko.

•He has dysthymic disorder.

•He received vocal training from Melissa Cross.

•He proposed to Hannah Snowdon on Christmas of 2013.

•Oli was 18 years old when he went on tour for the first time.

•His favorite color is Blue.

•He says that his oddest feature are his big nipples.

•He says his guilty pleasure is Britney Spears.

•He is appreciative of the support from his parents.

•Oli's mother says the most boring critism has to be his hair.

•He had his bridge and his lip pierced, but doesn't wear them in anymore.

•He also used to have snakebites.

•He used to wear stretchers.

•His zodiac sign is Scorpio.

•He made a guest appearance on the band Admiral's Arms' 2009 album "Stories Are Told".

•Oli says that he was deeply influenced by the co-founder of Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett.

•Australia is Oli Sykes favorite place to be.

•Oli Sykes first ever gig was a Linkin Park gig.

•In BMTH's first practice they wrote 4 songs.

•Oliver is 100% self taught.

•He tried to play guitar once, but then realized it wasn't for him.

•He once got so drunk he flipped his car.

•"Sleep With One Eye Open" was written about a friend who betrayed Oli.

•His main interest as a teenager was art.

•The first tattoo he ever got were hearts on his stomach, which are now covered up.

•His earliest childhood memory was when he was about 3 or 4 and he got chased by a big black bird.

•Sykes dated girlfriend Sarah "SJ" Whiteley from late 2003 until mid 2008, who was the sister of his childhood friend Neil Whiteley that had been in one of his early bands, Purple Curto.

•In high school, he was a year below Alex Turner and Matt Helders of the Arctic Monkeys.

•When he was in high school, teachers always said that he was really clever but didn't apply himself.

•He went to college after high school because he didn't know what else to do, and then realised after a few months that he couldn't handle education.

•He cried when they won the Kerrang! award for "Best British Newcomer" in 2006.

•Oliver suffered from Sleep Paralysis since he was 12 years old. He still experiences it, but not as much anymore.

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