Saturday 16 August 2014

Robin Williams fans pay tribute to the actor by getting tattoos of his face on their thighs


Tribute: Hayley Patterson, 23, has long planned to have Robin Williams's face tattooed onto her thigh, and made the decision the day after he died

Two Robin Williams fans have paid their own tributes to the actor by spending hundreds of pounds getting huge tattoos of him on their thighs.


Both Hayley Patterson, 23 and 39-year-old Melaine Plews-Smith, chose to have the thigh tattoos the day after he died - despite living hundreds of miles apart in Hampshire and Yorkshire respectively. Miss Patterson chose a picture (inset) of Williams in character as Peter Pan from 1991's Hook, while Mrs Plews-Smith opted for an image from the film Flubber.

Close-up: The image shows Williams in character, as Peter Pan in the 1991 film Hook

Both women paid £250 for their tattoos, though Miss Patterson's is coloured whereas Mrs Plews-Smith's is monotone.
 
Miss Patterson said she has always wanted a tattoo of the star, and had hoped to tweet the image to him. News of his suicide on Tuesday prompted her to go ahead with the plan.
 
Second tribute: On the same day, Melanie Plews-Smith, 39, was offered a Robin Williams tattoo in Yorkshire
 
Design: The image chosen for this one was Williams from the poster for the film Flubber Fan: Miss Patterson had hoped to show Williams her tattoo via Twitter - but the actor died too soon
 
Inked: A tattoo artist from Richmond in North Yorkshire drew this likeness of the starOriginal: Mrs Plews-Smith's tattoo was sourced from a poster for the film Flubber
  
Never grew up: Miss Patterson says that Hook is her favourite Robin Williams film Source: This image of Williams from the film's poster was the inspiration for that tattoo
 
 
 
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