{"id":323186,"date":"2025-08-06T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323186\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:35:24","slug":"nicola-sturgeon-shows-off-first-ever-tattoo-during-appearance-at-edinburgh-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323186\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Sturgeon shows off first-ever tattoo during appearance at Edinburgh Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicola Sturgeon has shared her first-ever tattoo during a guest appearance at an Edinburgh Fringe show.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The former first minister guest-starred at the Women of the World (WOW) Show on George Street on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

At the end of the event, the 54-year-old showed her new ink to the audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s an ambition I\u2019ve always had that I\u2019ve fulfilled recently,\u201d Sturgeon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a tattoo. When I phoned my mother to tell her, she thought I was kidding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sturgeon described the wrist tattoo as an infinity symbol with an arrow on the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a symbol of strength,\u201d she added. \u201cIt means something to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former SNP leader also said she was planning to write a fiction novel after her retirement from politics next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still have lots of ambition to go out and do different things.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest ambition now is to see if I\u2019ve got, and I don\u2019t know whether I do, the ability to write a novel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Sturgeon said her novel \u201cmay never see the light of day\u201d, she said it would likely be some kind of political thriller.<\/p>\n

She joked: \u201cThe problem is there are too many people I\u2019d want to kill. There\u2019d be a murder on every second page.\u201d<\/p>\n

What was the show?<\/p>\n

WOW founder and theatre director Jude Kelly hosted The WOW Show to share personal anecdotes and discuss women, gender, and inequality in the UK and beyond.<\/p>\n

Sturgeon shared that, as a woman in power, she was often asked in interviews when she was going to have children \u2013 or why she did not have them.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy predecessor was a man, he didn\u2019t have children, but to the best of my knowledge, he was never, ever asked those questions in an interview,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"NicolaSTV NewsNicola Sturgeon appeared at a Fringe show on Edinburgh\u2019s George Street on Wednesday. STV News<\/p>\n

One week after Donald Trump described Sturgeon as a \u201cterrible first minister\u201d, she also specifically named the US President as being part of a \u201cvery, very small group of people who are hoarding too much wealth, power, and influence\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at Donald Trump, for example, he\u2019s a member of that tiny group,\u201d Sturgeon said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt suits people like him to say to people who are struggling, \u2018Well, if you\u2019re a man, it\u2019s because women have too many rights, or it\u2019s because immigrants have got too many rights, or gay people have got too many rights\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re starting to see a bit of a backlash against those rights, and it\u2019s being perpetrated by people who have a big vested interest in keeping society as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sturgeon\u2019s appearance at the Fringe is one of many she has made this year after her name was cleared in a police investigation into the SNP\u2019s finances in March.<\/p>\n

The criminal investigation was dropped after her estranged husband and former SNP chief executive, Peter Murrell, appeared in court charged with embezzlement of party funds.<\/p>\n

Sturgeon also announced in March that she would not seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament in 2026.<\/p>\n

Her memoir, titled Frankly, will be published next week.<\/p>\n

STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n

Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n

Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n

Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n

\"WhatsApp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicola Sturgeon has shared her first-ever tattoo during a guest appearance at an Edinburgh Fringe show. The former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-323186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114983268463091086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}