Dave Hockey’s wife isn’t as distraught as you might expect at the prospect of him keeping other female company on holiday – because his companion is a plastic doll.

Love doll Bianca shares a cold drink with David

The father-of-two has taken ‘Bianca’ on road trips across the US and to Britain, including visits to Oxford and Stonehenge.

Map-reading with Bianca

But the 57-year-old insisted his wife Wendy – a retired doctor – doesn’t mind.

‘She knows I’m not going to run off with a piece of silicone shaped like a woman,’ he said.


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Weighing 40kg (90lb), Bianca has to be moved in a wheelchair. She is one of 14 dolls on whom Mr Hockey has spent £16,000 on travel and outfits, including £1,270 of lingerie.

Biking with Bianca

Mr Hockey has even taken Bianca skydiving. ‘The instructor who jumped in tandem with her said it made a pleasant change to not have someone screaming in his ear,’ he said.

Bianca skydiving Bianca with her skydiving certificate

The filmmaker, from Nova Scotia, Canada, is working on a documentary about doll owners but claimed his collection is just a hobby.



He said: ‘Some people in the doll community – iDollators – prefer dolls over a normal human relationship. But for me they’re just dolls, not people.’

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