BEN AFFLECK HAS been spotted sporting a massive new back tattoo – one which he previously claimed was fake.

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Affleck went shirtless on a beach in Hawaii, showing off a multi-coloured tattoo of some kind of bird/mythical creature hybrid.

Take a look at it below …

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Now listen, to each their own, as the old saying goes. However, it’s safe to say that the internet is having a field day at the 47-year old’s expense.

*winces*

Affleck previously told Extra’s Mario Lopez a few years back:

“[It’s] fake for a movie … I actually do have a number of tattoos but I try to have them in places where you don’t have to do a lot of cover up they get sort of addictive, tattoos, after awhile.”

A source previously told PEOPLE that he had the tattoo done after his split from Jennifer Garner in 2015 while he was still living in a guest house on the family’s Los Angeles compound.

If it was a ploy to try and win her back though, the joke’s on him though because Garner hates it:

“You know what we would say in my hometown about that? ‘Bless his heart,’” she told Vanity Fair in 2006.

A phoenix rising from the ashes. Am I the ashes in this scenario? I take umbrage [...] I refuse to be the ashes.”

Ben, you can come out of the oven now, you’re officially roasted.

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