SARAH VINE: Did Prince Harry really think he could do an Oprah interview with the Pope? Taylor Swift 'snubbed personal invite from Meghan to appear on her Spotify podcast while underwhelmed execs rejected several ideas from Sussexes'ĮMILY PRESCOTT: Elton John trademarks his own name ahead of his landmark appearance tonight on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage Lizzo looks incredible in an edgy jumpsuit as she blows fans away with a high energy performance on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage However, this has not yet been confirmed by, with her family needing to pay 4,000 Brazilian reais, around £640, and provide legal documents proving her age to Guinness World Records. The woman, called Maria Gomes dos Reis could have been born on June 16, 1900, making her by far the oldest person in the world. Last year Brazilian officials claimed to have found a woman who was 121 years old living in a small city in the state of Bahia. Most centenarians are found in the world's so-called blue zones, where people live longer than average, such as Okinawa in Japan or on the Italian island of Sardinia.īut France, while not considered a blue zone, nonetheless has 30,000 centenarians, according to statistics institute Insee, with around 40 of them 110 or older. The oldest-ever living person verified by Guinness was Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment, who died aged 122 years and 164 days in 1997. She was designated as being the world's oldest living person by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), which verifies and recording supercentenarians (people who are older than 110).īut the Catholic nun had rejected requests for locks of hair or DNA samples, saying that 'only the good Lord knows' the secret of her longevity. They both came back,' she said.Īccording to the GRG's World Supercentenarian Rankings List, the world's oldest person is now Maria Branyas Morera (pictured), who is 115 'It was rare, in families, there were usually two dead rather than two alive. One of her fondest memories was the return of two of her brothers at the end of World War I, she told AFP in an interview on her 116th birthday. 'I thinking of getting out of this business but they won't let me,' she said. 'I was always admired for my wisdom and intelligence, but now people could care less because I'm stubborn,' she jokingly told an AFP in an interview for her 118th tour around the sun. She became known for her spirited attitude, with her caregivers joking that she liked all the attention she received as she got older. I'm happy to be with you, but I would wish to be somewhere else join my big brother and my grandfather and my grandmother.' She told France's BFM television: 'No, I wasn't scared because I wasn't scared to die. In 2021 she claimed she 'wasn't scared to die' after contracting Covid days before her 116th birthday. Sister Andre (pictured) was born in February 1904, more than a decade before the outbreak of the First World War If we shared all that, things would be a lot better,' she said at the same meeting with journalists. 'People should help each other and love each other instead of hating. She retired from full time work in 1979 at which point she focused on caring for the elderly until she herself was the age of 100 - even though she was blind and relied on a wheelchair. Sister Andre, who had worked as a governess in Paris before joining the religious order Daughters of Charity, would begin every day with breakfast before attending morning mass. She grew up in a Protestant family as the only girl among three brothers, living in the southern town of Ales. She was born in the year New York opened its first subway and when the Tour de France had only been staged once. The nun, who became blind in her later years, was born more than a decade before the outbreak of the First World War and was known for her enjoyment of cocktails. Guinness World Records officially acknowledged her status in April 2022.Īccording to the GRG's World Supercentenarian Rankings List, the world's oldest person is now Maria Branyas Morera, a Spanish resident who is 115 years old. Sister Andre had become the world's oldest person in April 2022 following the death of the previous titleholder, Kane Tanaka. Ms Tanaka was 119 when she passed away in Fukuoka, a city on the southern island of Kyushu, on April 19. For her, it's a liberation,' Tavella, of the Sainte-Catherine-Laboure nursing home, said. it was her desire to join her beloved brother. She died in her sleep at her nursing home, spokesman David Tavella said.
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