Did you know World’s longest nose belonged to a circus performer? See pic

An old photo of a man with the world’s longest nose has gone viral on social media. The photo was shared by a Twitter user, Historic Vids, last Saturday (November 12). Sharing the picture, the user wrote the longest nose belonged to an English circus performer who lived in the 18th century.  

“Thomas Wadhouse was an English circus performer who lived in the 18th century. He is most famously known for having the world’s longest nose, which measured 7.5 inches (19 cm) long,” the user said. 

The person shared a wax reproduction of Wadhouse’s head kept at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum.

The Guinness World Records (GWR) website has a page dedicated to Wadhouse, which mentions that he was a “member of a travelling freak circus”.

The tweet is liked by over 1.20 lakh users and retweeted 7,200 times. A Twitter user questioned why does he look like he would live in a giant fish house, playing a clarinet, and getting pissed off by a sponge?

Another user said that the man resembles a toy (only in a store and not in my fun drawer) that looks like this and it may be called the PinocchiOOOOH.

Tony Gomez said that it has been historically documented that he was, in fact, the only one who ‘could’ smell what The Rock was cooking.

Alan Devine wrote that just as well covid wasn’t around when he was kickin about. “Would have needed a jock strap for a face mask,” Devine said.

The GWR has acknowledged the achievement of Wedders and said there are historical accounts that he had a nose measuring 19 cm (7.5 in) long.

Thomas Wedders lived in England during the 1770s and was a member of a travelling freak circus.

However, Mehmet Ozyurek from Turkey has the record for the longest nose on a living person (male). The record was confirmed by GWR in November last year, and it measures 3.46 inches.

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