I was at Chico’s and Tattoo Baby
was working with us at the time and
Chico started taking her to shows
because at the time it was a novelty to have a female artist. It was
a good move on his part to do that.
Her level of art is how she got on Ink
Master. She brought the shop to the
attention of the producers and I think
at first they were trying to develop
a show like Tattoo After Dark about
the tattoos and the artists and lifestyle. So when Spike came around
to interview us there were about 32
artists between the 4 shops and they
wanted the craziest people and that
put me first on the list (laughs) Remember Belushi’s house in Animal
House...that was pretty much our
shop and we were always on probation, we were that one’s who partied, but we were fun so he couldn’t
outright fire us. They changed it to
a show about coverups and picked
me.
Why do you think the show didn’t
get renewed?
A couple of reasons. Behind the
scenes stuff, the time slot, the World
Series, Sons Of Anarchy etc and a couple of other reasons we don’t have
to get into. But our ratings were pretty decent, almost always top 5. Just a
combination of reasons.
And after the show did you go back to the shop?
I did, and I waited the whole season and I got no support from Chico, which
was heartbreaking, so I left. So then I went to work at the shop we did the
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