Sharing a photo of himself in the tattoo parlour, Dr Alex George has revealed that he has got a tattoo tribute for his brother Llŷr, who sadly passed away from suicide in July 2020.
He captioned the photo, “This one’s for you my boy 💙 After losing Llŷr, I have wanted to pay a permanent tribute to him and what he means to me. I miss him every single day.”
Alongside the Instagram post, Dr Alex has shared a sweet video of the process and his nerves beforehand.
“This video was so important and personal to me and has been something that I have thought about for a long time. I couldn’t be happier with the results of the tattoo and I hope you all enjoy what I got.
“Big shoutout to Rick and the South City Market team for making me feel so comfortable and for being unbelievably professional,” he added.
Since Llŷr means God the Sea in Welsh and that was the last place that he was, Dr Alex decided to get a small wave on his right wrist saying, “I wanted to commemorate my brother and have something that would be really personal.”
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1 of 9Series Two: Nathan Massey and Cara de la Hoyde
Nathan Massey and Cara de la Hoyde are the only Love Island winners to have remained together.Despite splitting for a number of months in 2017, the couple rekindled their romance when Cara discovered she was expecting the couple's first child.
2 of 9Series Two: Nathan Massey and Cara de la Hoyde
The couple later welcomed a baby boy called Freddie in December 2016. Sharing the happy news on social media, Nathan wrote, 'The day has finally come !!!! Myself and @cara_delahoyde have become parents to our beautiful baby boy !!! Massive hats off to Cara Who delivered our boy safely !!!!! #thenextchapter ud83dudc99ud83dudc76ud83cudffc[sic]In July 2018, Cara and Nathan announced they are now engaged with Nathan popping the question in the villa they first met.
3 of 9Series Two: Olivia Buckland and Alex Bowen
It took her a while, but Olivia Buckland finally found her man during Love Island season two. After leaving the villa together when they finished in second place behind Cara and Nathan, the couple haven't looked back!
4 of 9Series Two: Olivia Buckland and Alex Bowen
Just a few months after leaving the villa, Alex popped the question to Olivia during a romantic trip to New York. The couple married in a luxury ceremony in 2018, with parts of their wedding being shown on their very own TV show.
5 of 9Series Three: Dom Lever and Jess Shears
Despite the public thinking their relationship was just a 'joke', Jess Shears and Dom Lever have defied the odds and are one of the two couples still together from their series. Despite all of the drama with Jess and 'Muggy Mike', Dom proposed to his girlfriend in September 2016.
6 of 9Series Three: Dom Lever and Jess Shears
The couple have cashed in on promotional shoots together, appearances, and even got 'married' on Good Morning Britain on Valentine's Day. Despite the 'fake wedding', Jess and Dom then tied the knot for real in 2018, when they married at a private ceremony on the Greek island of Mykonos. In October 2019, they welcomed a child together.
7 of 9Series Three: Jamie Jewitt and Camilla Thurlow
The nation fell in love with Prince Harry's ex-girlfriend Camilla Thurlow in 2017. And, after she had her heart broken by a number of different men in the villa, model Jamie Jewitt arrived and swept Camilla off her feet.After enjoying time together outside of the show and meeting each other's families, the couple are living happily ever after.
8 of 9Series Three: Jamie Jewitt and Camilla Thurlow
The loved up couple have since traveled the world together on charity missions... can they get any better?
9 of 9Series Four: Tommy Fury and Molly May Hague
The king and queen of Love Island 2019 are still loved up. While Molly Mae is living it up as a brand ambassador for PrettyLittleThing, Tommy's days are filled with training as well as being a brand ambassador for Boohoo Man.
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Whilst Dr Alex’s new tattoo was full of meaning, the same can’t quite be said of his fellow Love Islander Liam Reardon who is covered in tattoos, including a series of celebrity portraits of his right thigh.
Liam has two portraits tattooed on his right thigh – one of Frank Sinatra and another of Muhammed Ali. According to his tattoo artist Lucy Turner of Lucy Lou’s Tattoos, Liam had their faces inked on his leg as he’s massive fans of both iconic stars.
Unlike Alex’s small wave, the tribute to the boxer was Liam’s first ever tattoo and took a whopping 12 hours to complete. “It was his first tattoo and he sat amazing both times. I convinced him to go quite big with the tattoo just because he's so tall. Anything smaller just wouldn't have looked right,” Lucy explained.
To be fair, Liam has picked some iconic people to tribute.