Home and Away’s Lynne McGranger gets her second tattoo at 65
Home and Away star Lynne McGranger has gotten inked again – getting her second tattoo at the age of 65. But the body art has a very special meaning behind it.
Sitting down with The Morning Show hosts Larry Emdur and Kylie Gillies this week, Lynne spoke about everything from celebrating 25 years of acting on Home and Away, to why she decided to get another tattoo in her mid-60s.
“We went to Hawaii at Easter for my partner Paul’s 60th,” Lynne revealed.
“We’d already said, ‘When we’re over there, why don’t the whole family get tattoos?’”
The star, who plays Irene Roberts on the long-running Aussie soap, chose a holiday-inspired palm tree tattoo on her left thigh.
Coincidentally, Lynne’s first tattoo was in celebration of her own milestone, during a birthday trip to New York five years ago.
“I said to Paul, ‘I might get a tattoo for my 60th’ and I said, ‘Why don’t you get one too?’ … And he’s like, ‘Yeah, okay.’
“I got an apple on my ankle, but he saw what I was going through, and he bailed,” Lynne recalled.
However, the actress confirmed her partner “did get one in Hawaii!” before joking that she might continue the holiday destination tattoo theme and “go to Germany and get a schnitzel somewhere”.