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DAVID DIMBLEBY LOOKS like a sharp-suited 75-year-old, but on his right shoulder the journalist has something a little different to his BBC peers.
The septuagenarian was so taken by the idea of tattoos while doing some recent filming that he went and got a scorpion permanently inked on his shoulder.
The BBC reports that Dimbleby told the Radio Times that while making the maritime series Britain and the Sea, he had a black pencil mark drawn on him.
He decided that it was ‘wimpish’ to just have it drawn on, and that he “needed to man up” – so went under the tattooist’s needle.
However, he drew the line at doing a Cheryl Cole and getting his bum tattooed.
Britain and the Sea will be shown on BBC One on Sunday.
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Just wait until he grows old wrinkled and the ink fades. He will be sorry then.
Just wait until his Mother finds out about this.
Should’ve got a tramp stamp.
I saw a butterfly with a tattoo of a fat bird on its wing the other day.
Gross!
Because tattoos in general are gross? Or because of his age?
BBC standards are slipping
Needs some ink before joining his bbc colleagues in the big house
When I saw BBC I taught it was Big Black Co….
Why is this news ? People get tattoo’ s every day
About right . He good on TV , but has a bit of a nasty mouth . A sting in lots of his comments . Very apt Tattoo
MANKY.
Who would have know the Dimbleby was so stupid, you’d think at 75 he would have got sense!
Skin like fu***n leather I’d say… probably broke a dozen needles doin that tatt…
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