A Southampton builder is gunning to tick something off his bucket list by winning a Guinness World Record with his hair.
Jack Drever, 37, never planned to grow his hair out, but is now a scissor snap away from scooping the world record for the longest single male donation of hair.
“I don’t have an exact date but it’s been seven years since I cut my hair,” Jack admitted.
"My ex-partner liked my hair longer so it just kept growing and growing.
“I’ve been living in my house for six and a half years and I’ve got photos of it growing longer than a short back and sides when we were moving, but my whole life before that I had a grade two all over.”
Jack, who works for Rosewood Building Services, was originally just going to chop his hair off, but his business partner Lewis Bowers suggested that they could raise some money out of it.
Lewis said: “Jack wasn’t sure about the idea so I took the reins and set up a JustGiving page.
“We started it on Saturday afternoon and within a day we raised £600, and we only set a £1,000 target.”
All money raised will go to Little Princess Trust who make real hair wigs for children and young people who have lost their hair through cancer treatment or other conditions.
Each wig costs the charity between £700 and £800 to produce.
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“We wanted to raise enough for them to get my hair and be able to turn it into a wig,” Jack said.
Jack, from Botley, will be cutting his hair on December 9 at Jemma George Hair Artistry in Chandlers Ford.
The current longest male donation was set in 2023 and sits at 83cm, but Jack had his hair measured by his sister and believes he has already passed the 85cm mark.
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The pair will need a Guinness World Record adjudicator to attend the chop if it is to officially break the record, but Jack did not ever plan on cutting his hair to become this big of a deal.
“The spotlight isn’t really my thing,” Jack said.
“But we’re doing this for a good cause, so I’ll grin and bear it and feel uncomfortable if we can raise a nice amount of money.”
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