Jeff Ondash, 51, who calls himself ‘Teddy McHuggin’ worked the Las Vegas Strip outside the Paris Hotel-Casino for an entire day, sporting a red Nascar-style suit and a wrestling championship style-belt, getting cozy with passers by.
He shared the love at a rate of 324 hugs an hour – about 5 and a half per minute, beating the previous record holder, Dublin’s Siobhan O’Connor, by a full two hugs per minute.
McHuggin, from Canfield, Ohio, already holds a place in the Guinness Book of World Records after achieving the most hugs in one hour – 1,205 cuddles.
He now has his sights set on the world’s longest single hug – currently 24 hours and 1 second, as well as breaking his previous two records.
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