Swallowing swords no comparison to juggling family life for man with 'world's strongest tongue'

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Gordo Gamsby ran away to join the circus and has travelled the world performing extreme sideshow acts, achieving a swag of Guinness World Records. He has returned home to embrace a different life, bringing a slice of the daring and different with him.

He looks comfortable and relaxed by a river in northern New South Wales.

Gamsby holds the Guinness World Record for the heaviest weight pulled with the tongue — 132 kilograms.Gamsby said a video clip showing him towing a car weighing 1,053kg with a hook through his tongue was yet to be verified by Guinness World Records.Gamsby's passion for the circus was sparked when Slippry Sirkus visited his high school.

"I have trained all the muscles of my oesophagus, all the way down my throat, so I can use those usually involuntary muscles and voluntarily open and close them to allow me to slide a blade down my throat without injury."Gordo and Lucy are embracing family life in Port Macquarie with their son Spike.

"It's sometimes a bit scary for me when he's cutting apples out of his mouth with a chainsaw or swallowing swords or juggling fire, but it's all fantastic."

 

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