Ben Affleck has joked about his “garish tattoos”, shortly after paparazzi photos revealed the colourful full back ink he had originally denied getting shortly after his split with Jennifer Garner. Last Saturday, almost exactly two years after Ben Affleck denied its existence, the back tattoo returned to haunt the headlines, itself a phoenix rising from the ashes of gossip rags past. https://t.co/wItYWWlb5I — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 29, 2018The Oscar winner had been absent from Twitter since December 2017 but returned to the platform to respond to an article in US magazine The New Yorker entitled The Great Sadness Of Ben Affleck. Thick skin bolstered by garish tattoos. — Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) March 29, 2018Asked about the ink in her first interview since the split, Garner told Vanity Fair in March 2016: “You know what we would say in my hometown about that?

Source: Irish Examiner March 29, 2018 17:03 UTC