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World's heaviest man set to marry
Manuel Uribe on his weight-loss diet - first broadcast July 2008 The world's heaviest man says he is to marry his girlfriend later this month after losing nearly half his original body weight. Mexican Manuel Uribe said he and Claudia Solis would wed in his home town of Monterrey on 26 October. The 43-year-old entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2006 after tipping the scales at 560kg (88 stones). Manuel, who has lost around 250kg (39 stones), said he would be steering clear of the wedding cake. He would have just one bite for the cameras, but no more, he was quoted as saying. "It will be a hefty wedding, on a large scale, but with a low-calorie banquet," he told the AFP news agency.
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Nothing is impossible.
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