Strip club wins bum tattoo auction

KENT BLECHYNDEN/Fairfax NZ

BARE CHEEK: Tina Beznec has yet to see the Calendar Girls design.

The Hutt Valley bottom which has attracted so much attention over the last few weeks will soon be tattooed with a strip club's logo as part of a publicity stunt.

A Trade Me auction for the rights to tattoo 23-year-old Tina Beznec's backside ended on Friday with strip club chain Calendar Girls winning the bidding at $12,450.

Calendar Girls is about to open a multimillion-dollar venue on Dixon St in central Wellington and director Jacqui Le Prou admitted buying the tattoo spot was in part a publicity stunt for the new club.

The tattoo would either be Calendar Girls' standard logo or if Ms Beznec preferred the strip club said the logo could be part of a more professional design. The club plans to fly Ms Beznec to Auckland where Otautahi Tattoo (a Christchurch company) will design and tattoo her.

Ms Le Prou said Calendar Girls was happy with the amount it paid. "We think this was a cute and innovative idea from Tina. We're also keen to make sure Tina is comfortable with the design, after all it's her bum."

Ms Beznec had not heard the final details of the tattoo when contacted but said overall she was "stoked" with the outcome. The money she raised would go towards paying off debt, charity and visiting her mother in Australia. "I'm feeling pretty good about it all. I have had a lot of positive feedback."

Ms Beznec had seen copycat auctions on TradeMe and was happy she had started a trend.

The auction had proven to be one of the most popular in the site's history.

Twenty per cent of the proceeds from the auction would go to a yet-be-confirmed charity. Full details will be posted on the Calendar Girls Wellington Facebook page on Monday afternoon.

Calendar Girls also announced that on the day Ms Beznec is tattooed, Otautahi Tattoo will also tattoo anyone else with the logo which will gain them free entry to any Calendar Girls for as long as the tattoo is visible.

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