Lucky Diamond Rich | |
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 Lucky Diamond Rich in 2009 | |
| Born | Gregory Paul McLaren 1971 (age 53–54) New Zealand |
| Nationality | British, New Zealand |
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| Known for | World's most tattooed person |
Gregory Paul McLaren (born 1971),[1] who goes by the name ofLucky Diamond Rich, is aNew Zealand-Britishperformance artist,street performer andinternational performing arts festival performer, whose acts includesword swallowing andjuggling on aunicycle.
He is best known, however, for holding theGuinness World Record as "the world's mosttattooed person", a title formerly held byEnglishmanTom Leppard. Rich has tattoos covering his entire body, including the insides of hiseyelids,mouth,ears andforeskin. He has held the certified record since 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.[2][3]
As a young boy, he read about and became interested in the most tattooed men and women. It did not go much further than just a thought until he got his first tattoo, which was of a smalljuggling club on his hip.[4]
He went on to tattoo every part of his body including every crevice and genital area. He has tattooed some white over his black tattoos and added colour.[5] His tattoos have collectively taken over a thousand hours to ink, and have been worked on by hundreds oftattoo artists.[2]
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