Oli London's father is an interior designer and his mother is a housewife.
15 Facts About Oli London
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Oli London began researching the country's culture, and became familiar with many South Korean music groups.
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Oli London became particularly interested in BTS, and began idolising popular member Jimin.
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Oli London started attracting media attention after appearing in a 2018 episode of the Barcroft TV documentary series Hooked on the Look, which presented his multi-surgery process to resemble Jimin.
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In 2019, Oli London began his K-pop career by releasing the single "Perfection", a bilingual English-Korean song revolving on the euphoria he felt after getting his surgeries; it received negative reviews from music critics for its excessive autotune.
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In 2020, Oli London released a Christmas song called "Christmas in Korea".
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Oli London has been a former supporter of the Black Lives Matter organisation.
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Oli London has since backtracked, and is a vocal opponent of BLM and "woke culture".
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Oli London describes himself as someone with "an obsessive and impulsive personality".
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Oli London practices speaking Korean with a private teacher every week.
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Oli London has spoken of his poor relationships with family and friends and society's negative views towards him because of his racial identity.
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Oli London has criticised the Islamic doctrines of women's dress codes.
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In November 2022, London announced his conversion to Christianity and his intention to be baptized in Catholic Church.
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Oli London's self-identification attracted worldwide attention and stirred debate around the validity of being transracial compared to being transgender.
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Oli London stated that he planned to stop getting further surgeries, which he said he had "undergone in [his] obsessive quest chasing perfection".