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London Eye has become a global icon for fun, romance, and nationalism. Want to know more fun and interesting facts about the London Eye? Read on…. David Blaine looked thin and was clearly emotional as he left the box. David Blaine took his first solid food - a handful of crisps - five days later, and was released from hospital the same day. In interviews during his recovery, he said the only time he considered abandoning his self-imposed starvation was when a man climbed up nearby scaffolding and cut his water supply.

Professor Powell-Tuck said the stunt would help inform treatment of malnutrition in hospitals and nursing homes. David Blaine has insisted that despite people questioning his sanity, he intends to carry on with his death-defying tricks and illusions. Almost three weeks later, he announced his next challenge - jumping hundreds of feet from a helicopter into a river. But the stunt, originally planned for April , has never materialised.

Explore the BBC. Front Page Years Themes Witness. It will be his first major stunt outside the United States. But Guinness's keeper of records Stewart Newport told PA Thursday: "We have never encouraged actively claims for the longest time to voluntarily go without solid food for very clear and obvious reasons. He pointed out that the longest hunger strike ended in after days when Dennis Galer Goodwin protested his innocence in Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, of a rape charge.

He was fed by tube orally. The lengthiest period spent without solid food was days when Angus Barbieri lived on tea, coffee, soda water and vitamins in Maryfield Hospital, Dundee in the mid Sixties. He lost more than 20 stone. Book bosses say his accommodation does not compare well with previous record holders.

Vernon Kruger stayed in a barrel in South Africa -- about an eighth the size of Blaine's box -- for 67 days in A Guinness World Records spokeswoman told PA: "We do wish him well with his latest challenge, but he has got a long way to go to beat the incredible Guinness record holders. Guinness also dismissed his earlier feats, such as being buried alive and living in an ice block, as not measuring up.

Book compilers say they abandoned the burial record a few years ago, but their guidelines were for the box to be at least 2 meters below the surface rather than Blaine's 1. His seven days were short of the record set in Texas in And record bosses said his ice challenge -- in which he was encased in ice for 60 hours, was little different from living in an igloo or an ice hotel.

If he had wanted to attempt the world record for full body ice contact endurance he would have to be in only a swimsuit. The world record for that was set last year for BBC1's Tomorrow's World when Wim Hof stood in an ice-filled tube for one hour and six minutes.

Blaine will be allowed to take diapers, a journal, some pens, lip balm, a pillow and a pad to lie on into the box. He said he currently weighs about pounds and expects to lose about 45 pounds during the stunt.