A 51-year-old Ohio man gave 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for a new world record. Jeff Ondash, who sought the squeezes under the costumed alter ego Teddy McHuggin, broke the record Saturday night outside the Paris Las Vegas hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. As Teddy McHuggin, Ondash wore a red NASCAR-style driver’s suit with hugging logos and a wrestling-style championship belt. He said he wanted to become the world’s hugging champion to raise money for the American Heart Association during American Heart month. The cause is important to him because his brother and father both died of heart problems at a relatively young age. Mr. McHuggin already held the record for most hugs in one hour, with 1,205, according to Guinness World Records. The previous record of 5,000 hugs in one day was set last year by Siobhan O’Connor in Dublin, Ireland.
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