Editing Billy Boyd (section)

==Personal life==
Boyd is an avid surfer and spent his free time surfing in New Zealand during the production for ''The Lord of the Rings''.<ref name="boyd up"/> He also holds a Grade 7 in foil fencing. He trained in martial arts at the Krauseworld Academy in Glasgow under brothers Steve Krause and Mike Krause where he achieved Phase 4 rank in both [[Jeet Kune Do]] and [[Eskrima|Filipino Kali]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tartan.tv/Web/Site/NewSite/Directory/Programmes/Billy_Boyd.asp |title=Billy Boyd |website=Tartan TV |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804235529/http://www.tartan.tv/Web/Site/NewSite/Directory/Programmes/Billy_Boyd.asp |archive-date=4 August 2007}}</ref> He topped a list of the 100 Most Eligible Men in Scotland in 2002.

He owns a house in [[Glasgow]] with his wife, Alison McKinnon. The couple had their first child, a boy named Jack William Boyd,<ref name="son">{{cite news |title=Billy Boyd Has New Baby Named Jack William |website=Starpulse News Blog |date=29 April 2006 |url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/04/29/billy_boyd_has_new_baby_named_jack_willi |access-date=4 June 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122031/http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/04/29/billy_boyd_has_new_baby_named_jack_willi |archive-date=29 September 2007 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> on 26 April 2006. He and McKinnon were married in a ceremony with 30 guests at [[Òran Mór]] in Glasgow's West End on 29 December 2010. The wedding was attended by castmates [[Elijah Wood]] and [[Dominic Monaghan]]. A reception was held afterwards for about 130 guests.

Boyd has a [[tattoo]] of the Elvish word for "nine" written with the [[Tengwar]] script, a reference to his involvement in ''The Lord of the Rings'', and the fact that his character was one of the nine members of the ''[[Fellowship of the Ring (characters)|Fellowship of the Ring]]''. The other actors of "The Fellowship" ([[Elijah Wood]], [[Sean Astin]], [[Sean Bean]], [[Ian McKellen]], [[Dominic Monaghan]], [[Viggo Mortensen]], and [[Orlando Bloom]]) got the same tattoo with the exception of [[John Rhys-Davies]] whose stunt double got the tattoo instead.<ref name="tattoo">{{cite web |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue348/interview.html |title=The stars of ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy reach their journey's end |website=SciFi.com |access-date=31 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306100400/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue348/interview.html |archive-date=6 March 2007}}</ref>

He remains close with ''The Lord of the Rings'' co-star [[Dominic Monaghan]]. Monaghan revealed in an interview for the national breakfast television show ''[[GMTV]]'' that he continues to see Boyd on a regular basis, as he is "essentially, kind of, godfather to his kid." Boyd and Monaghan co-host the podcast ‘The Friendship Onionʼ together.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-04|title=The Friendship Onion: LOTR's Dominic Monaghan & Billy Boyd Launch Podcast|url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1172185-the-friendship-onion-lotrs-dominic-monaghan-billy-boyd-launch-podcast|access-date=2021-06-15|website=ComingSoon.net|language=en-US}}</ref>

Boyd is one of the patrons of [[Scottish Youth Theatre]], Scotland's National Theatre "for and by" young people. He is also the patron of the [[National Youth Choir of Scotland|National Boys' Choir of Scotland]].

===Holidays in Scotland===
In 2008, Boyd fronted [[VisitScotland]]'s Perfect Day Campaign, and talked of his love of surfing in Scotland, particularly in [[Machrihanish]] near the town of [[Campbeltown]] in Kintyre in the west coast of Scotland, and [[Pease Bay]] and [[Coldingham Bay]] on Scotland's east coast. In an interview about the campaign with ''[[The Scotsman]]'' on 28 July 2008, he said: "I don't really do much promotional stuff but felt that with this one I could be honest... I'm very proud of where I come from and I get very excited if a friend comes over and I can show them around."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Lord-of-the-rings-star.4329490.jp |title=Lord of the Rings star Billy Boyd happy to be promoting glens of his homeland |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=28 July 2008 |access-date=28 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080729233502/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Lord-of-the-rings-star.4329490.jp |archive-date=29 July 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>