Prince Harry didn’t go to a high-end tattoo store in New York Metropolis in September to get inked up.
It was revealed Tuesday that the Duke of Sussex went to East Aspect Ink to recruit Jelly Roll to headline the closing ceremony of the Invictus Video games Vancouver Whistler 2025.
The prince, 40, and the singer, 39, shared the information with a humorous video the place Harry will get a pretend tattoo.
Within the clip, Harry is sitting in a chair on the tattoo parlor and is greeted by Jelly Roll, who misunderstands Harry’s intentions for being there.
“I’m such a fan dude. I could not believe it when they called me and told me Prince Harry wanted to get a tattoo, and he wanted me to give him his first tattoo,” Jelly Roll tells Harry. “This is the coolest thing ever.”
A confused Harry responds, “No, no, no, why are you wearing a glove?”
“We’re giving you a tattoo about the Invictus Games,” Jelly Roll explains, as Harry clarifies he solely got here to the store to ask the “Son of a Sinner” singer to carry out on the first-ever winter Invictus Video games in February.
“There’s no tattoo in this. I can’t get a tattoo,” Harry says.
Jelly Roll suggests he provides Harry the tattoo on his neck, however Harry prefers getting the ink elsewhere.
“I’ll play the Invictus Games, you just let me give you your first tattoo,” Jelly Roll notes.
“All right, screw it, let’s go,” Harry interjects. When the musician notes “we gotta go for the neck,” Harry jokes: “I was thinking the lower back or on my ass.”
“Nobody wants to see your ass, Harry. This is for the world,” Jelly Roll says.
The Grammy-nominated artist is ready to persuade Harry to get the tattoo on his neck. He inks the prince, who’s in ache in the course of the course of. Harry’s then shocked to see the tattoo says “I am Jelly Roll.”
“You put your name on my neck?” Harry asks.
Jelly Roll then runs away from an upset Harry and yells, “I’ll see you in Vancouver. I appreciate you!”
The Invictus Video games captioned the video, “The most 🤯 inking of a deal in Invictus Games history. Watch when Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex meets @jellyroll615 @eastsideinktattoo. Don’t miss this duo reuniting in Vancouver #IG25 Closing Ceremony Feb 16. Get 🎟️ before they sell out, via our bio!”
In late September, Harry and his safety crew have been seen arriving on the tattoo store on the Decrease East Aspect.
Administration for East Aspect Ink — the place different celebs like Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson have gotten ink — was tight-lipped about Harry’s go to on the time.
“I can’t confirm or deny anything,” store proprietor Josh Lord advised The Publish. “We treat all our customers as if they were royal, because to us they are. We always honor their privacy.”
Now, we all know that Harry was there to movie the announcement that Jelly Roll will carry out on the Invictus Video games Vancouver Whistler 2025.
The daddy of two launched the Invictus Video games in 2014 as multisport Paralympic-style video games for wounded or injured servicemen and veterans.
The 2025 Invictus Video games, happening from Feb. 8 to 16, will host winter sports activities for the primary time, together with alpine snowboarding, snowboarding, biathlon, Nordic snowboarding, skeleton and wheelchair curling.
