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Garry Stretch, the man with the world's most elastic skin.

Here's the interview I wrote for Naked - Magazine of the Weird and Wonderful.

Roll up, roll up! See the monsters of the midway! Thrill at the strangest show on Earth! Witness the most incredible, the most unbelievable freak of this or any other century! See Garry Stretch, the world’s most elastic man performing mind-boggling acts of physical distortion. Gasps as he pulls the flesh from his very bones, covering his face with his own incredible skin. Witness with awe and mystery as he attaches blood-bursting bulldog clips to his entire body to perform the amazing “Batman.” No trickery is involved ladies and gentlemen, Garry Stretch is indeed a one hundred percent bona fide freak. We dare you to purchase a ticket to the most bizarre experience of your entire life! Yes my friends, today is your once-in-a-life opportunity to feast your eyes upon the world’s strangest living creature...

Well who could resist such an offer? Certainly not the Naked Magazine team. So, when the Circus Of Horrors came to town, we took a trip to the big top. Quietly tucked behind the scenes we found the trailer of Gary “Stretch” Turner and talked to him about life as the world’s stretchiest man. Lincolnshire-born Garry, holder of two incredible Guinness world records (World’s Stretchiest Skin and Number of Clothes Pegs on Face), spoke frankly about his unusual medical condition and revealed a surprisingly positive view about the strange phenomena of the physical freak….

NAKED: Garry, did your parents know from your birth that you had this unusual physical condition?

GARRY: Well no, not from birth. I guess it was from when I was about five or six years old. The other children in the classroom would take hold of me and go “whoah your skin’s strange,” and I’d stretch it about and that. I think doctor’s said that he’s got very soft skin and that, but they didn’t know my condition was EDS (Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome) until I was about thirteen. I used to go for tests in Sheffield. They’d take bits of skin from me and grow them in laboratories all around the world. A lot of the research you see done on EDS is based on the research on myself, which was probably twenty years ago now. In my particular condition it only effects one in five hundred and ninety-three million people, so there’s probably about ten of us in the world and there’s only two of us performing. EDS covers any condition effecting the connective tissue. So a lot of people have Ehlers–Danlos. People who are double jointed say. The way it effects me is a lack of collagen. If you looked under a microscope at your skin cells they’d be nicely rounded and locked together in many places. Mine are more jagged, more squared, so it gives me elasticity. It’s as simple as that.

NAKED: Did you find that you were particularly teased at school? Was it a burden having such a condition as EDS?

GARRY: No. Once people knew I was stretchy and had seen it 2 or 3 times, it was not an issue anymore. I probably didn’t do it for years. When I started comprehensive school I remember making quite a lot of money with my first day at school charging 10p a pull and 20p to do-it-yourself! I probably ­made about ?10 every year going around the first year students. They’d all be intrigued to know, so I’d go around and pose and take tens and twenty pences for a bit of a show.

NAKED: You had the idea of making it into a career quite early on?

GARRY: Yeah, and I left school when I was 15. I went to London with my father and learnt the scaffolding trade and got into construction. After about ten years of that I was a plasterer for five years, and I actually started entertaining about four years ago now. I did some snaps for The Daily Sport - I think I was in that every day for nearly a week or so doing a different stretch, a different story. It was hilarious. And I think about two weeks later, Channel 4 rung me up wanting to do a little show for Fortean TV. So I did that and within two months, Hollywood was on the phone, and that was when I went to set the record.

NAKED: You have a world record for pegs too.

GARRY: Yeah. Well obviously because I was in the book I was skimming through one day, and I saw this Swedish guy wearing 88 pegs on his face and I thought “bloody idiot!” I was sun bathing in the garden at the time and I looked up at the washing line and there were a couple of pegs hanging there so I reached up and put them on. I thought, “that’s not too bad, I could put loads on.” So I went to the local shop and bought them out of pegs and decided to do one side of the face and thought, “yeah here’s another record.” And I think I did over a hundred. Because the photos got in the papers it got a load of other people doing it! There’s a guy in Stoke, a couple of Scandinavians, an American and then it became a craze in Ibiza and Tenerife. They all get pissed on Tequila and fire the pegs on! So I started something!
NAKED: What happened

Garry Stretch, the man with the world's most elastic skin by his trailer.

Here's the interview I wrote for Naked - Magazine of the Weird and Wonderful.

Roll up, roll up! See the monsters of the midway! Thrill at the strangest show on Earth! Witness the most incredible, the most unbelievable freak of this or any other century! See Garry Stretch, the world’s most elastic man performing mind-boggling acts of physical distortion. Gasps as he pulls the flesh from his very bones, covering his face with his own incredible skin. Witness with awe and mystery as he attaches blood-bursting bulldog clips to his entire body to perform the amazing “Batman.” No trickery is involved ladies and gentlemen, Garry Stretch is indeed a one hundred percent bona fide freak. We dare you to purchase a ticket to the most bizarre experience of your entire life! Yes my friends, today is your once-in-a-life opportunity to feast your eyes upon the world’s strangest living creature...

Well who could resist such an offer? Certainly not the Naked Magazine team. So, when the Circus Of Horrors came to town, we took a trip to the big top. Quietly tucked behind the scenes we found the trailer of Gary “Stretch” Turner and talked to him about life as the world’s stretchiest man. Lincolnshire-born Garry, holder of two incredible Guinness world records (World’s Stretchiest Skin and Number of Clothes Pegs on Face), spoke frankly about his unusual medical condition and revealed a surprisingly positive view about the strange phenomena of the physical freak….

NAKED: Garry, did your parents know from your birth that you had this unusual physical condition?

GARRY: Well no, not from birth. I guess it was from when I was about five or six years old. The other children in the classroom would take hold of me and go “whoah your skin’s strange,” and I’d stretch it about and that. I think doctor’s said that he’s got very soft skin and that, but they didn’t know my condition was EDS (Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome) until I was about thirteen. I used to go for tests in Sheffield. They’d take bits of skin from me and grow them in laboratories all around the world. A lot of the research you see done on EDS is based on the research on myself, which was probably twenty years ago now. In my particular condition it only effects one in five hundred and ninety-three million people, so there’s probably about ten of us in the world and there’s only two of us performing. EDS covers any condition effecting the connective tissue. So a lot of people have Ehlers–Danlos. People who are double jointed say. The way it effects me is a lack of collagen. If you looked under a microscope at your skin cells they’d be nicely rounded and locked together in many places. Mine are more jagged, more squared, so it gives me elasticity. It’s as simple as that.

NAKED: Did you find that you were particularly teased at school? Was it a burden having such a condition as EDS?

GARRY: No. Once people knew I was stretchy and had seen it 2 or 3 times, it was not an issue anymore. I probably didn’t do it for years. When I started comprehensive school I remember making quite a lot of money with my first day at school charging 10p a pull and 20p to do-it-yourself! I probably ­made about ?10 every year going around the first year students. They’d all be intrigued to know, so I’d go around and pose and take tens and twenty pences for a bit of a show.

NAKED: You had the idea of making it into a career quite early on?

GARRY: Yeah, and I left school when I was 15. I went to London with my father and learnt the scaffolding trade and got into construction. After about ten years of that I was a plasterer for five years, and I actually started entertaining about four years ago now. I did some snaps for The Daily Sport - I think I was in that every day for nearly a week or so doing a different stretch, a different story. It was hilarious. And I think about two weeks later, Channel 4 rung me up wanting to do a little show for Fortean TV. So I did that and within two months, Hollywood was on the phone, and that was when I went to set the record.

NAKED: You have a world record for pegs too.

GARRY: Yeah. Well obviously because I was in the book I was skimming through one day, and I saw this Swedish guy wearing 88 pegs on his face and I thought “bloody idiot!” I was sun bathing in the garden at the time and I looked up at the washing line and there were a couple of pegs hanging there so I reached up and put them on. I thought, “that’s not too bad, I could put loads on.” So I went to the local shop and bought them out of pegs and decided to do one side of the face and thought, “yeah here’s another record.” And I think I did over a hundred. Because the photos got in the papers it got a load of other people doing it! There’s a guy in Stoke, a couple of Scandinavians, an American and then it became a craze in Ibiza and Tenerife. They all get pissed on Tequila and fire the pegs on! So I started something!
NAKED