Guinness Records reference Angelina Jolie’s ‘husband stealing’ in PR message

Guinness Records reference Angelina Jolie’s ‘husband stealing’ in PR message
He Pingping is the smallest man in the world at 2ft 5.37 inches tall. He hails from Mongolia, where he runs a restaurant and has a girlfriend who is average height. Russian blond Svetlana Pankratova has the longest legs in the world. She is 6ft 4 inches tall and her legs alone measure 4ft 3.9 inches. She works in real estate in Spain and has a boyfriend who’s three inches shorter than she is. Guinness brought the two record-setters together in London to promote the 2009 version of the Guinness book of World Records, which is out tomorrow. [Details from The Sun]

This year the Guinness creators are trying to get our attention by including some of the most popular celebrities as record-setters. It isn’t new for Guinness to use celebrities, and Wikipedia notes that they’ve been criticized in the past for creating categories for the purpose of name-dropping. Guinness even made a reference to Angelina’s homewrecking in their PR announcement for the record book this year.

Brad “Cruises” Past Tom As Most Powerful Actor
Brad Pitt has put an end to Tom Cruise’s reign as the Most Powerful Actor in Hollywood. The mega superstar was selected based on a rating system calculated using a combination of earnings, box office takings, awards, web impressions and PR & Media exposure between May 1 2007 and April 30 2008.

Double Whammy - Jolie Takes Aniston’s Crown as Most Powerful Actor
As if stealing her husband wasn’t enough, Angelina Jolie has now taken
Jennifer Aniston’s Crown as Most Powerful Actor. The new Guinness World Records book lists Jolie as the new top dog by calculating a combination of earnings, box office takings, awards, web impressions and PR & Media exposure between May 1 2007 and April 30 2008.

Britney Knocks Out Paris
It seems that Britney is making a bit of a comeback. Not only did the pop princess put on a show at the MTV VMA’s taking home 3 awards, she has also been named as the Most Searched for Person on the Internet knocking out Paris Hilton for this new honor.

[Received through e-mail from Guinness Word Records PR firm]

Guinness hardly needs more sensationalism to sell copies. Every entry is sensational in its own right, and according to Guinness their book of records is the most sold copyrighted book worldwide. Add a little infidelity among celebrities and you can only boost sales.

Thanks to WENN for these photos.

Published 9/16/08 by


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