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Birth name | Edward Stephen Hall | |||||||||
Nickname | The Beast | |||||||||
Born | Newcastle-under-Lyme, England | 15 January 1988|||||||||
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Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[1][2] | |||||||||
Weight | 142.2–197 kg (313–434 lb)[3][4] | |||||||||
Spouse | Alexandra Hall | |||||||||
Children | 3 | |||||||||
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Years active | 2011–present | |||||||||
Genre | Strength Training/Strongman | |||||||||
Subscribers | 3.06 million[5] (3 September 2024) | |||||||||
Total views | 613.93 million[5] (3 September 2024) | |||||||||
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Last updated: 3 September 2024 | ||||||||||
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Edward Stephen Hall (born 15 January 1988) is a British media personality and a retired strongman. He is best known for his world-record setting 500 kg (1,102 lb) deadlift in 2016[6] which is widely regarded as one of the greatest feats of strength in history.[7] He is also known for winning 2017 World's Strongest Man competition.[8]
Hall has also won national competitions such as England's Strongest Man, Britain's Strongest Man, and UK's Strongest Man multiple times. In 2022, he was defeated by fellow World's Strongest Man Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson in a boxing match that was taglined "The Heaviest Boxing Match in History". He has presented his own television series called Eddie Eats America (2018) and was featured in the History Channel series The Strongest Man in History (2019). He also had his first acting role as an extra in the action film Expend4bles (2023).[9]