Spanning a whopping eight centimetres, Jay Sloot’s tongue is officially the world’s biggest. The 25-year-old Warney-lookalike from Western Australia first started whipping out his licker to impress his mates as a party trick. But a call to Guinness and a visit from an official with a tongue-tying tape measure has landed Jay a place in the world record books.

“I’ve been called a freak by a few people, and kids get upset when I poke it out, but it’s not so big that it affects my speech,” says Jay as he warms up his massive mouth organ, just like an Olympic athlete before a big event.

Since being awarded the prestigious honour, the ski shop worker (yep, having a giant tongue isn’t a full-time job, even if it does provide a few extra bucks and a foot in the door with the ladies) says his mates constantly call on him as a wingman down the pub, using his newfound celebrity and whopping appendage to lure women in.

Jay’s tongue has even allowed him to travel the world — initially travelling around Australia, he was eventually invited to jet to Rome for a Guinness Record “freak show” featuring the world’s smallest man (at the time) He Ping, who has since passed away.

Jay assures us his attempt to balance the pint-sized, 29-inch bloke on his large lingua wasn’t a contributing factor in the midget’s untimely death, but after witnessing what his mouth monster is capable of when he popped into the ZOO office last week, we’re not so sure...