Lucky Diamond Rich

Gregory Paul McLaren (born 1971, New Zealand)[1] who goes by the name of Lucky Diamond Rich, is a New Zealand performance artist, street performer and international arts festival performer, whose act includes sword swallowing and juggling on a unicycle.

Lucky Diamond Rich
Born
Gregory Paul McLaren

1971 (age 48–49)
New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Occupation
  • Performance artist
  • street performer
  • performer at the International Arts Festival
Known forWorld's most tattooed person
Lucky Diamond Rich pictured at the 2008 Montreal Art Tattoo

He is best known, however, for holding the Guinness World Record as "the world's most tattooed person", a title formerly held by Englishman Tom Leppard. Rich has tattoos covering his entire body, including the insides of his eyelids, mouth, ears and foreskin. He has held the certified record since 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.[2][3]

Inspiration and first tattoo

Rich was born on the second island of New Zealand. 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 small juggling club on his hip.[4]

He went on to tattoo every part of his body including every crevice and intimate area. He has tattooed some white over his black tattoos and added colour.[5] His tattoos have taken over a thousand hours to ink, and have been worked on by hundreds of tattoo artists.[2]

gollark: You are like a polygon made of soyuzite.
gollark: <@236831708354314240> isn't real.
gollark: Stars use fusion, not fission, I mean.
gollark: > The primary food source of SCP-3485 is residue created by stars during fission reactions, such as leftover hydrogen and helium.*Really*?
gollark: It would REALLY harbinge communism if you did.

See also

References
  1. Mary Gardner (July 19, 2011). Big Ten Questions with Lucky Diamond Rich Archived 2012-11-03 at the Wayback Machine. tattooroadtrip.com.
  2. Guinness World Records. "Most Tattooed Person". Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  3. Totaro, Paola (December 16, 2004). "Sydney's Lucky Diamond". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
  4. Brown, Thom. "An Interview with Lucky Diamond Rich by Thom Green of Mantra". Archived from the original on March 22, 2008. Retrieved 2007-05-07.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  5. Wynn, Kirsty (November 20, 2011). "Lucky sharing his tattoo at gathering of ink fans". NZ Herald. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
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