A step too far? Superfans show McBusted devotion with tattooed toes

Gemma Lomas and Laura Bloor met at a McFly concert 10 years ago and decided to get matching tattoos the day after seeing newly-formed pop band McBusted.

Gemma, aged 31, an administration officer, from Rugeley, said: "We kept joking about getting matching McBusted tattoos, after a while we'd joked about it that often that we just decided we should do it as we'd been fans of both bands for so long and if it hadn't been for McFly we wouldn't have even met each other.

"It still seemed like a bit of a joke right up to the moment we were sat in the tattooist's chair. People normally just think that the tattoos are a bit silly.

"A lot of people ask me if they're real which is very annoying. I can understand why people think they're daft but at the end of the day Busted and McFly have been a big part of our lives."

Gemma and Laura, aged 26, who had seen McFly in concert around 30 times, were delighted when Matt Willis and Harry Judd from the band retweeted a photo of their tattoos on Twitter. It received hundreds of favourites, likes and retweets.

Despite the odd negative remark they both insist that the group, made up of members of bands McFly and Busted, have been the foundation of their friendship.

Gemma said: "We went to four dates of the McBusted tour and to their summer concert at Weston-super-Mare on the beach and Hyde Park BST festival.

"Even if the band split in the future the tattoos will still remind us of the good times we've had.

"We were sensible enough to have the tattoos in a place on our body which is easily covered up so people will only see them if we choose to show them off. We've both got other tattoos as well so to us it doesn't seem like a big deal."