ONE Oxfordshire resident is set to raise money – and eyebrows – with an unusual stunt for Comic Relief.
Duncan Wileman, 29, plans to get a few more additions to his 25 piercings and countless tattoos.
The window cleaner, from Carterton, said: “For Red Nose Day, I’m planning to have 36 piercings put into my chest and stomach.
“They will make a circle, which will then have red cotton threaded through to make a red nose.”
The painful stunt will be carried out in the next two weeks, before Red Nose Day on Friday, March 18.
And it’s not the first time Mr Wileman has pushed the pain barrier to raise money for the charity event.
He said: “I like to try and do something different every year.
“Two years ago, I had a red nose tattooed on to my knee and raised more than £100.I’m sure this one will hurt, but, hey, it’s for charity.”
Mr Wileman had his first piercing when he was at school and his first tattoo at 18. He said the most painful was a skull tattoo in his ear, which he described as “the worst 20 minutes of my life.”
He added: “I think it’s body art – a way of expressing yourself.
“One day I’d love to get a ‘metal mohawk’, which is where they put metal implants across your head.”
Mr Wileman’s first tattoo was a black and white skull on his right arm.
He also has a tattoo of a dragon on his back and a heart tattoo bearing the name of grandmother Edie Oliver, who died last year, on his left shoulder.
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