Tess Daly’s horror at Vernon Kay’s back tattoo: 'She didn’t know I was getting it done'
ok.co.ukVernon Kay shocked fans earlier this month when he revealed he had a large tattoo of a man’s face on his back. And even though he later admitted it was a prank, it seems even wife Tess Daly didn’t know about it beforehand.
In an exclusive interview, the TV presenter and I’m A Celebrity finalist talked about how the back tattoo came about – and why he didn’t tell his wife.
Vernon told OK!: "I went on the Eli Manning Show – he’s a big sports celebrity in the States who’s won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants. "They wanted me to go on the show to explain what American Football is perceived as over here in the UK, and I thought, ‘well, I’m not going to go on there and just do a boring chat.’” He continued: “So I told the producer, ‘Listen, I have something to show you’ and he wangled it [the tattoo] into the questions that Eli was asking, about a bet that I allegedly had with a friend. "That the loser would have the winning quarterback’s face tattooed on their back.” Vernon revealed his back tattoo – of Eli Manning himself – during Manning’s YouTube show, but didn’t let on that the tattoo is actually only a semi-permanent one.
He added: “No one knew because I didn’t want anyone to convince me not to do it, so I didn’t tell anyone.” Even Tess and their two daughters, Phoebe and Amber, didn’t know what he was up to until after the show was on YouTube.
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