Lisa Riley has been inked with her first tattoo.
Lisa Riley
The 45-year-old actress - who plays Mandy Dingle in 'Emmerdale' - is delighted with the end results of her debut tat, and she thanked her tattooist Hannah Elizabeth Gehrke for inking her.
She wrote on Instagram: "I DID IT!!! today after five years of putting it off. I had my FIRST TATTOO done….by the superbly talented @gerktattoos @redtattooleeds she’s UNBELIEVABLE…..a gorgeous person, crazy brilliant, when someone’s talented and lovely. I knew I was in safe hands…..the tattoo looks fantastic, everything I imagined and so much more [heart emojis] THANK YOU (sic)"
Lisa posted a picture of herself being inked on her foot, but she is yet to share a close-up of her tattoo.
It comes after the actress played tattoo artist Tina Finch in 2018 BBC drama 'Age Before Beauty', and the star previously admitted she had attempted to go under the needle three times in real life but "chickened out".
She said at the time: "I have been to the tattoo parlour three times and chickened out.
"I do want one on my foot and I will probably get it one day, but the idea of it being forever freaks me out ever so slightly.
"Jim (Murray) and I play best friends in this drama and he gets his big tattoo covered up, whilst I get mine put on everyday which is always funny."
And Lisa found it a "challenge" to portray a tattoo artist.
She said: "Doing the real tattoo on someone was a challenge.
"I sat in with a female tattooist for a day as research.
"So when I was doing it on set we had the foot peddle, the ink and the noise, everything except the needle.
"We had a supporting actress come in one day to have a beauty treatment done, which was Tina tattooing her eyebrows.
"Pre-tattoo, as prep on the day, you have this cream that looks like black hair mousse put on your brows so for a short while she looked a little like Freddie Mercury!"
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