Sometimes you think there are two news stories so disparate you could never possibly find a commonality between them. But for one magical week towards the end of last year, all anyone could talk about was surprisingly oversize sons. First, Gary Barlow’s son went viral after a family photo of the Barlows showed Daniel, aged 24, towering over his father, aged 53. Of course you’d never have thought anyone could possibly link it to the US election, even if they really wanted to. In fact, the relentless memes about his height were actually quite a nice respite from all the politics.
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Then, mere hours later, Donald Trump arrived on stage at his election night party with Melania Trump and their son Barron. And suddenly two stories became one. Barron Trump, who is 18 years old and inexplicably 2.06m tall (six foot seven), dwarfed his father Donald, who is pretty tall himself, at six foot two. While his mother Melania was a model, she isn’t exactly a giant, standing at a reasonable five foot eight.
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The New York University student (presumably there on some sort of basketball scholarship) has captivated people across the nation with his height, just as Daniel Barlow has captivated the UK. In comparison, Daniel Barlow is six foot two, which isn’t quite as towering as Barron, but does stand significantly taller than his former Take That star father Gary, who is a short king at five foot seven.
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