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He had also participated in television programme Asia’s Got Talent, where he pulled off the daring act of “kissing” a snake.<\/p>\n
In 2016, a story was published in Thai media – and later in several UK tabloids – naming Mr Hussin as a Thai man who’d married a snake, believing it to be his “reincarnated girlfriend”.<\/p>\n
The stories used pictures from Mr Hussin’s social media which showed him playfully spending time with snakes.<\/p>\n
Mr Hussin, who kept four snakes at home to better understand their behaviour, told reporters: “They used my photos and started making up stories, saying that I married a snake.”<\/p>\n
He later told the BBC he was “very disappointed” by the fake reports.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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