Feathers McGraw in hot demand at tattoo parlours

“I guess it’s just the magic of claymation, as he’s so emotive but he doesn’t speak at all,” she said.

Faith said most of her clients wanted the designs “because they grew up with the characters or their family grew up with them”.

“One guy came in and got his first tattoo – it was of the ‘Feathers Wanted’ poster.

“He was the dad of two teenagers and said he had really wanted the tattoo since lockdown, so that was really lovely.”

Politics student Gia O’Donohoe, 20, got her tattoo from another Liverpool parlour after finding the film, recently nominated for an Oscar, funny.

“When I saw the scene with him and the seal, it was a lightbulb moment and I knew it was going to be that one,” she said.

Her tattoo of Feathers holding a seal on his lap was one of many tongue-in-cheek references to James Bond, alongside the usual running jokes about the Lancashire-Yorkshire rivalry.

Her X post showing the image was widely viewed and even reposted by Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman.

“It was kind of crazy, I just decided to tag them and they were one of the first people who liked it, and then they reposted it and then it got 3,000 likes overnight,” she said.