After completing this process on 99% of his skin, he changed his name and moved to a remote corner of the Isle of Skye, in Scotland, where he lived without electricity for two decades, turning this area into a tourist attraction due to his presence.
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“I am not interested in contact with society. I don’t even have a mobile phone. The truth is that I’m not worried about what’s going on around me, I just want to live my life in peace,” Tom Leppard had said in an interview with The Guardian in 2008.
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Tom just wanted to stand out at something and make money from it: “I had a fang-shaped replacement set of teeth that I had put in publicity photos. But it was a necessary evil to supplement my income support, or lately my pension. It’s not something I enjoyed.”
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“In the UK people have been brainwashed into thinking that a tattooed person is just a criminal and that’s it. My tattoos haven’t changed me but they have changed people’s view of me,” Tom said.
