THE world’s tallest man met
one of Britain’s tallest women yesterday — and
they agreed that size DOES matter.
After reading in The Sun yesterday about 7ft
9ins Hussain Bisad, 6ft 8ins Sarah Fowler was just
longing to see him.
So we arranged a summit conference between her
and 33st Hussain — and it soon looked like love
was in the air.
Romantic Hussain, 27, said “High there” with a
bunch of flowers.
It made a big impression on Sarah, 32, who
said: “I just love taller men and Hussain
certainly fits the bill.
“He looked big in the paper but in the flesh
he’s huge.”
The unwed London Tube driver went on: “Hussain
is a big softie. One of the first questions he
asked me was, ‘Are you married?’
“He’s a bit of a charmer if you ask me. I
can see he’s got that naughty look in his eye.
“I think he stands head and shoulders above
other men.
“Too bad I’ve missed Valentine’s Day.”
Sarah, from Hounslow, West London, has been a
member of the UK Tall Persons Club for ten years.
And it is clear that Somali-born asylum-seeker
Hussain has Britain’s tall girls highly
interested.
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| Tall
smiles ... Hussain is happy to meet British man
mountain Chris |
Tall club director Mary Noakes said: “I have
had dozens of calls and enquiries from members
asking about Hussain.
“His arrival in Britain has caused quite a
stir.
“Most of our women members prefer taller
men and they don’t come as tall as Hussain very
often.
“I have several who are waiting to give him an
outsized welcome.”
And Sarah said: “The fact he gave me flowers
and that I was the first to meet him will make
lots of girls in the tall club jealous.”
If romance blossomed between Hussain and Sarah
they would become Britain’s tallest couple.
But blushing Sarah joked: “It’s a bit too early
to call Guinness, we’ve only just met.”
Hussain eats four huge meals and drinks three
gallons of water a day and sleeps in a 9ft bed —
and he is still growing at nearly an inch a year.
He arrived in Britain five months ago after
fleeing war-torn Somalia.
Now he is to be measured by officials from the
Guinness Book of Records and looks certain to grab
the world height record from 7ft 8ins Tunisian
Radhouane Charbib.
Yesterday Hussain also came face-to-face
with another rival UK man-mountain.
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| Playgrounded ... Hussain and
Chris dwarf little Emilia Kazamias,
nine |
Chris Greener, 58, has been regarded as
Britain’s tallest man since 1967. But at just 7ft
6ins he admits his record is about to go.
The Sun arranged for them to meet yesterday at
Hussain’s home near Neasden, North West London.
Accountant Chris said: “He’s big all right. It
looks like my title is under threat.
“I’m pleased to welcome Hussain to this
country. It’s nice to look someone in the eye for
a change.”
As the two titans strolled in a nearby park,
onlookers gasped in amazement.
Mum-of-two Louise Pitman, 31, said: “It looks
like something out of Land of the Giants. They are
huge.
“I’ve never seen two people so big in all my
life.”
For Hussain, the experience of meeting a fellow
tall man was a first.
He told The Sun: “I have never met anyone
as tall as Chris. It’s been great fun. He knows
all about life up here.
“It’s not always easy being so tall but meeting
someone like him has been fantastic for me.”
As the pair chatted, Hussain asked Chris: “How
big are your feet?”
Chris, from Bromley, Kent, replied: “Size 17 —
so they are a lot smaller than yours.” We revealed
yesterday that Hussain takes Size 26 shoes and has
to have them specially made at £600 a pair.
Chris will officially remain the tallest Briton
until Hussain’s height is confirmed.
Hussain, who has a twin sister Khardra just
5ft 5ins tall, was named as Somalia’s tallest
person in 1998.
He was measured then at just over 7ft 7ins but
has grown since.
Doctors have warned him that his abnormal
growth is probably a rare condition called
pituitary giantism, which is caused by a tumour.
Sufferers continue to grow after the late
teens, when most people stop developing.
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| Front
page ... The Sun
yesterday |
Unless treated it can cause heart trouble,
blindness and diabetes.
But yesterday Hussain, who has Home Office
permission to stay in Britain, was happy to learn
that he has been made an honorary member of the
1,000-strong UK Tall Persons Club.
He is to be invited to club functions around
the country.
He said: “I have been treated very well since
arriving in Britain. I love the people here,
everyone is very friendly. And I certainly like
the look of some of the women.”
Sarah Fowler, the girl who Hussain took to
yesterday, towers above the average British man,
who is a mere 5ft 10ins.
The Guinness Book of Records does not have a
category for Britain’s tallest woman.
But the tallest women ever to live in Britain
was Jane Bunford, from London.
According to Guinness, Jane was a giant 7ft
4ins. She died in 1922.
The current female world record holder is Sandy
Allen, 47, from America. She measures up at an
incredible 7ft 7½ins
Last November The Sun revealed that newlyweds
Keisha Bolton, 22, and 6ft 5ins, and her 7ft hubby
Wilco van Kleef, 20, from Dagenham, Essex, were
the tallest British couple.
