{"id":2385557,"date":"2026-04-23T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2385557"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:12:45","slug":"pete-davidson-debuts-new-tattoo-after-spending-200k-to-have-others-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pete-davidson-debuts-new-tattoo-after-spending-200k-to-have-others-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson debuts new tattoo, after spending $200K to have others removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pete Davidson has been spotted with a tattoo of his baby daughter&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Photos from this month&#8217;s CinemaCon show &#8220;Scottie&#8221; near his ear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <em>SNL<\/em> alum has undergone the painful and expensive process of having his hundreds of tattoos removed since 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/pete-davidson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Pete Davidson;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pete Davidson<\/a> has mostly had less and less ink each time he&#8217;s been photographed lately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> star had a new tattoo, though, in photos from this month&#8217;s CinemaCon 2026 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. While Davidson&#8217;s skin was mostly free of ink, he sported the name of his daughter, Scottie, written close to his ear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> has reached out to reps for Davidson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The star of <em>Dumb Money<\/em> and the upcoming <em>How to Rob a Bank <\/em>said in 2021 that he would be removing his tattoos over the next several years. He was 27 then, and he expected they would &#8220;all be gone&#8221; by the time he was 30. He&#8217;s estimated that he&#8217;s already spent $200,000 on the process.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal dialogue\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Pete Davidson in 2019<br \/>Credit: Steven Ferdman\/WireImage<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But it&#8217;s taken more time \u2014 and been more painful \u2014 than he had anticipated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He&#8217;s acknowledged that it&#8217;s &#8220;pretty horrible&#8221; to undergo the removal procedure, which require six weeks of healing before the next session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like putting your arm on a grill and burning off a layer, and then you gotta do maintenance and let it heal properly,&#8221; Davidson told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/1915082991807979534\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Variety;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> in April 2025. &#8220;And it&#8217;s pretty tough. It sucks, I&#8217;m not gonna lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He hadn&#8217;t planned to get rid of all his ink anyway \u2014 at least planning to keep a likeness of Hillary Clinton on his right leg \u2014 but most of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But he&#8217;d said it was something he needed to do <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/shopping\/news\/pete-davidson-tattoo-removal-online-dating-social-media-1236374150\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:for his sobriety;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">for his sobriety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The new tattoo has special meaning, however. Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/pete-davidson-and-elsie-hewitt-welcome-baby-girl-11872824\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:welcomed his first child;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">welcomed his first child<\/a>, a daughter they named Scottie Rose Hewitt Davidson, on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong><em>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Even before the little one&#8217;s arrival, Davidson had said he was excited about his new role, especially because <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/eddie-murphy-performance-comforted-pete-davidson-dad-death-11855151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:he lost his own father;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he lost his own father<\/a>, a New York City firefighter killed as a first responder to the Sept. 11 attacks, when he was 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was even more grateful after the birth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Dad life is f&#8212;ing awesome,&#8221; he told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/pete-davidson-feeling-primal-after-becoming-a-dad-exclusive-11927012\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PEOPLE<\/a> in March. &#8220;It is exhausting and rewarding and cute. And I&#8217;m very lucky because Elsie is a fantastic mom, and I can&#8217;t stress enough how lucky I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/pete-davidson-debuts-new-tattoo-after-spending-200k-to-have-others-removed-11956596\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nz.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Pete Davidson has been spotted with a tattoo of his baby daughter&#8217;s name. Photos from this month&#8217;s CinemaCon show &#8220;Scottie&#8221; near his ear. The SNL alum has undergone the painful and expensive process of having his hundreds of tattoos removed since 2021. Pete Davidson has mostly had less and less ink each time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2385558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[320934,344997,29333,448707],"class_list":["post-2385557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-caesars-palace","tag-elsie-hewitt","tag-pete-davidson","tag-scottie-rose-hewitt-davidson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Pete-Davidson-debuts-new-tattoo-after-spending-200K-to-have.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385559,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385557\/revisions\/2385559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}