World's strongest man casually bends frying pan, lifts BBC presenter over his head

He's even stronger than the Mountain.
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Sam Haysom
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We imagine the world's strongest man must get asked to lift quite a lot of things.

It's probably not every day he gets to lift a BBC presenter above his head, though.

In case you don't know who the world's strongest man is, his name is Eddie "The Beast" Hall. He won the competition in 2017, beating the Mountain from Game of Thrones into second place.

Look, here's a picture of him making the actual Terminator look relatively small:

On Wednesday morning, Hall went for an interview with presenters Dan Walker and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast.

Before he came on the show, they revealed their plan: see if they could get Hall to bend a frying pan live on air:

A short while later Hall wasn't just bending the frying pan: he was actually rolling the thing up like it was a newspaper.

He then proceeded to lift Dan Walker over his head without breaking a sweat.

He was at least good enough to leave the frying pan behind at the end, though.

Yikes.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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