Lucky Diamond Rich

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

Lucky Diamond Rich
Lucky Diamond Rich in 2009
Born	Gregory Paul McLaren 1971 (age 53–54) New Zealand
Nationality	British, New Zealand
Occupations	Tattoo artist Performance artist street performer performer at the International Arts Festival
Known for	World's most tattooed person

Lucky Diamond Rich pictured at Montreal, Canada's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in 2008.

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 fulfilment

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. He has tattooed some white over his black tattoos and added colour.^[5] His tattoos have collectively taken over a thousand hours to ink, and have been worked on by hundreds of tattoo artists.^[2]

See also

• Body suit (tattoo)
• Tattoo art style