Pete Davidson has cleaned up his act, and I couldn’t be happier for the guy who embodies outer-borough spirit

nypost.com:

Reformation, showing off an ink-free torso. His arms and legs are also the pale shade of his God-given flesh.It was a welcome change from his former look — a scrawny, scribbled-on frame that could have been mistaken for a graffitied wall on the Lower East Side.The 31-year-old Staten Island native looks healthy.

He looks happy (the animated movie “Dog Man,” in which he voices a villainous cat, topped the box office this week). He looks like he has gone through some sort of magical portal into adulthood.And the world on the other side of that door seems pretty sweet for Davidson, who New York has watched grow up.He joined “Saturday Night Live” as a 20-year-old and endured very public battles with both substance abuse and mental health; his tats were, seemingly, physical manifestations of that turbulence.

He’s reportedly been on a mission to wipe them off his body since 2020.“I was a sad boy,” he recently told Jimmy Fallon in his trademark self-deprecating manner. “It was a weird time.” He also copped to the obvious: His taste in the curation of his body art was, um, questionable.

SpongeBob, at least six Harry Potter tattoos, a toaster and the word “Warning“ were some of the masterpieces he chose.“I made a lot of those decisions when, you know, before rehab.