'I ate whatever was put in front of me, no questions asked.' Bob Weighton is officially the world's oldest man, he will turn 112-years-old next month. Read more about Bob here:
He said:"I have had the usual scares, flu, influenza, malaria, two or three operations; I ought to be dead but I am a survivor, if you like."Mr Weighton told Sky News he thought there were"some great drawbacks" to modern life.
Asked whether his long life might be down to exercise, a certain favourite drink or a good diet, he said:"I ate what was put in front of me - no questions asked!"Mr Weighton became Britain's oldest man upon the death of Alfred Smith, from St Madoes, Perthshire, who was also Scotland's oldest man and shared the same birthday.
Coincidentally, Mr Weighton - who was born in Hull - also shares the same birthday as Britain's oldest woman. Joan Hocquard was born in Dorset on 29 March 1908, and Britain's second oldest woman - Violet Davies-Evans, from Spalding, Lincolnshire - was born the very next day.But all three supercentenarians still have some way to go to catch up with the world's oldest woman, who is 117.marked her latest birthday with a party at a nursing home in Fukuoka, southern Japan, last month.
Upon taking a bite from a slice of her big birthday cake, she said with a smile:"Tasty, I want some more."
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