#( iv. mikey axton )

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SYDNEY ASTRID KELLAS. aka syd vicious. TWENTY-NINE. EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AT BRITISH VOGUE. LONDON, ENGLAND. MARRIED TO MICHAEL ‘MIKEY’ AXTON.

Sydney, who almost exclusively goes by Syd, was born in Berlin, Germany to Siegrid Weber, a German psychology lecturer, and English artist, Edward Kellas in 1990. At the time of their daughter's birth, they were aged thirty-nine and forty-three, respectively and unmarried. When she was only two years old, the family moved to New York City but eventually moved to London, England in 1994 and settled in Westminster. Syd has a very happy childhood and could only describe her as bohemian. At the dinner table they were often joined by artists, writers and intellectuals that inspired and intrigued Sydney. Although doted on and very much cared for by her parents, she was always treated like an adult, with valid opinions and ideas that she was encouraged to share. At home to spoke German and English and spent time with her German grandparents in Berlin for many summers. However, by the time she was finishing high school, she became a little lost. She applied to do Fine Art at The Royal College of Art but after one semester she left. For six months she travelled around Europe before coming home to London in search for a job. It was around this time, aged twenty, that she met Michael Axton, an aspiring boxer. Unlike her parents, who never married and met much later in life, after only year, Sydney and Michael married when she was twenty-one. 

Oh a whim, in 2012, Sydney applied for an internship at British Vogue. Knowing how coveted these internships were, she was surprised to hear she has been successful and would be working with editor, Cecelia Holmes. It was made pretty clear to Sydney that this wasn’t exactly a good thing. Holmes had a reputation at this point but Syd took on the challenge and impressed Celia. After her internship was over, Cee asked if she would consider staying on as her personal assistant, having just fired her third one that year. The rest, as they say, is history and Sydney has now worked for Cecelia for six years and even moved to New York with her. When Cecelia moved back to London to take the Fashion Director job, Sydney was promoted to Executive Assistant. Although, Syd has bigger dreams now and hopes to soon leave Vogue and begin working as a fashion stylist. In 2017 she took the year off to have her first son and only child, Michael Ziggy Axton, known as Ziggy, who is godson to Cecelia. 

Syd is fiercely protective of the people she loves, and can be just fierce in general. She is very opinionated, argumentative at times but almost always well informed, so probably right. She is an extremely hard worker but will always put her family first. After Charlotte died, Syd basilly became Cecelia carer and bodyguard. She once headbutted a paparri who was waiting outside Cecelia’s house and shouting insults at the editor whenever she left the house. Cee still has no idea how she managed this, since Syd only stands at five-foot-two. 

MICHAEL HUXLEY AXTON. aka mikey, or hux. THIRTY-FIVE. EX-BOXER AND PERSONAL TRAINER. LONDON, ENGLAND. MARRIED TO SYDNEY KELLAS. 

Born in Brixton, London in 1984 to Jennifer and Michael Axton, Michael quickly started going by Mikey, or sometimes Huxley or Hux, to differentiate between himself and his father. He has one older sister and one younger, although he was always the protector of the family. From a young age Mikey was aware of the gang culture in Brixton because his dad would often taken on jobs for them. However, in an attempt to keep him off the streets and away from the high knife crime rate in the area, his mother got him involved in a boxing club set up by a local gym. It was the local council's own attempt to keep young kids out of organised crime and at first, Mikey wasn’t keen to join. Clubs like these were often dubbed as a ‘sissy’s way out’ of gangs but after a couple of months, Mikey had found his passion. 

He left school at sixteen and started to train professionally, eventually moving out of his parents home. He was good, got signed by an agent even, won a couple of impressive titles but times reamined tough for him. At twenty-four he had to take a step back from boxing because of his mother’s failing health, and by the time she had recovered and he got back onto the ring, many had already forgotten his name. At twenty-seven he was well on his way to becoming an international name and while celebrating an impressive streak in a London club, he met twenty-year-old Sydney. They began dating off and on, but Mikey was keen to keep distractions for a minimum and often tried to break things off with Sydney, without ever managing to convince her she would be better off without him. After a year she convinced him that the best course of action wasn’t to break it off, but get married, and let her support him financially and emotionally. That she did and for the past eight year, his wife has been his biggest fan and his hardest coach. In 2013 the pair moved to New York and Mikey began working with a new coach, finally getting back into international rings and winning various titles and championships. He was now earning enough to get his mother and sister’s out of Brixton, along with his nieces and nephews. His father however sadly died in 2015. 

In 2018 he returned to London with his wife and their baby son, Ziggy Axton, and retired from boxing to open his own private gym and boxing club. He is now a personal trainer to many famous faces, in the competitive sports world, boxing and beyond. Although he’s incredibly proud of his boxing career, his first love is his family and is a very proud stay-at-home dad while his wife conquers the fashion world. He is easy-going but passionate about anything he puts his mind to. Since making it big, he’s financially support various charities in Brixton that support young people with activities like boxing, and mental health support.