The Lost Prophets frontman was jailed for 29 years in 2013 after his string of sickening child sex offences were discovered.
But as a multi-platinum selling artist, there were plenty of music fans who were left with permanent reminders of their former favourite band, including 22-year-old Ellia Beasley.
The aspiring model has Lost Prophets' lyric: 'Scream your heart out’ from the band’s single Rooftops, tattooed just above her pelvis, but was disgusted with the artwork when she heard of Watkins’ crimes.
‘He completely abused his power of someone being famous so I was quite ashamed that I’ve got something of his on my body. Stuck there,’ she said.
‘I just wanted to hide it.’
‘He completely abused his power of someone being famous so I was quite ashamed that I’ve got something of his on my body. Stuck there.’
But after deciding she could not go through the pain of having laser tattoo removal, Beasley opted to get tattooist to the stars Kevin Paul to transform her shameful inking into something to be proud of.
Kevin covered up the offensive tatt with a large owl, after several other body art specialists claimed the inking was too bold to be covered.
The procedure, which took 10 hours, was described as 'horrifically painful,' by the 22-year-old, but hopefully this will create an end to the constant questions about her choice of body art.
Tattoo Disasters UK begins on Tuesday 21st April at 9pm on Spike - SKY 160, Talk Talk 31, BT TV 31, Freeview 31 and Freesat 141.