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From 2021 until March 2024 Feeney was in a relationship with former army man Hoani Molnar, who was twenty years her junior. Feeney kept his identity private until revealing him through social media in 2022. Feeney was previously in a long-distance relationship with Minou, an accountant from
Algeria.
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When Feeney was 37 years old she found her biological father on social media. Since meeting him, she has acquired five more half-siblings to then finding out that she has ten in total. She grew up in
Hamilton and New Plymouth. She changed her name via Deed Poll in 2014 from Jacqulyn-Joanne to
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Feeney left school at the end of sixth form and studied towards a certificate in Media
Studies at Taranaki Polytechnic, while continuing to work at Energy FM; she had her first on-air radio work in February 1991, when the usual 1 am – 7 am weekend host didn't show up. She was later given the
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Feeney was born
Jacqulyn-Joanne Barbara Feeney on 28 March 1974, to Robynne Andersen. Her mother Robynne married Gary Feeney who later raised Feeney as his own daughter even though Robynne and Gary separated when Jay-Jay was four years old.
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Misconception: A True Story of Life, Love and
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Misconception: A True Story of Life, Love and Infertility
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