Lorraine Kelly jokes about having a bum tattoo of her favourite football team

Lorraine Kelly joked she might have a secret inking of her favourite football team on her bottom on Wednesday.  

The ITV presenter, 63, said she ‘might be sitting’ on a Dundee United tattoo as she gushed over the team.

Speaking to Nihal Arthanayake on BBC Radio 5 Live, she was asked how she has managed to ‘resist the urge for years to have a Dundee United tattoo’.

Lorraine quickly cut him off and replied: ‘Now, how do you know? I very well might be sitting on one right now. She lied but it would be somewhere you wouldn’t see it.’

Nihal added: ‘Well if your sitting on a Dundee United tattoo that’s not very celebratory’. 

Hinting: The ITV presenter, 63, said she ‘might be sitting’ on a Dundee United tattoo as she gushed over the team

The TV star said: ‘If I was going to get a tattoo it would be on my bum because it would be somewhere that you wouldn’t see.’

Lorraine also revealed she plans on heading to Scotland this weekend to watch the Scottish football team against Livingston. 

She continued: ‘Funnily you should mention them because I’m actually going to see them, I haven’t seen a game for such a long time and I’m going up on Saturday we’re playing Livingston F.C. at home. 

‘We were at the bottom but we’re actually propping up the league. We have been very slowly climbing our way back up again. 

‘So this is a really important game on Saturday, if we get this then we are well on our way to not be at the bottom.’

Nihal joked: ‘Well that’s good so that means you’re going to have to somehow get the tattoo on your bottom removed and then moved further up as they go up the league. So it’ll keep going up your spine basically.’ 

This is not the first time Lorraine has joked about getting a tattoo on her rear as she previously wanted to mark her 60th birthday with a ‘naughty inking’. 

Speaking to Ross King on her own ITV show, she said: ‘I haven’t got any tattoos. I was going to for my 60th, I was going to get one on my bottom but I couldn’t decide what – maybe some planets?

Joking: Speaking to Nihal Arthanayake on BBC Radio 5 Live, she was asked how she has managed to ‘resist the urge for years to have a Dundee United tattoo’

Lorraine quickly cut him off and replied: ‘Now, how do you know? I very well might be sitting on one right now. She lied but it would be somewhere you wouldn’t see it’

‘I don’t know, something naughty because nobody would see it apart from [husband] Steve. I might still get it, why not?’

Ross suggested she have a giant ’60’ inked on her derrière.

When she did turn 60 in 2019, Lorraine rang in the occasion by jetting to Florida to try her hand at astronaut training.

Last year, Lorraine revealed how a group of Dame Debora James’ friends made a pact at her funeral to get tattoos in her honour. 

The presenter was keen to speak about her friend’s ‘beautiful’ funeral during her TV show which took place in London last July.

Dame Deborah, a podcast host and mother of two who became known as Bowelbabe – after her social media handle – died in June 2022 aged 40 after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016.

Her funeral took place in Barnes, south-west London, with Lorraine, whose show Dame Deborah appeared on multiple times, in attendance.

Rear of the year: This is not the first time Lorraine has teased getting a tattoo on her derriere as she admitted she nearly got a tattoo on her rear to mark her 60th birthday in 2019

Speaking to Dr Hilary Jones about the emotional day, she said: ‘She’ll never ever be forgotten. I think yesterday there was a whole bunch of us that said we’re going to get tattoos with Rebellious Hope on them, I think I agreed to that!’

Hilary replied: ‘Okay okay,’ before adding: ‘Why are you looking at me?’

Laughing, Lorraine told him: ‘We’re just deciding where they’re going to be Hilary.’

Dr Hilary then said: ‘The only person I would do it for is Deborah, so I’ll have a think about that!’