Hungarian Hide The Pain Harold shares secret of his long marriage in TV show
The former Hungarian electrical engineer, András Arató, known to the world as Hide The Pain Harold, shared the secret of his 52-year-long marriage.
András Arató was a guest on a popular Hungarian TV show Szerencsekerék (“Wheel of Fortune”).
Hide The Pain Harold is one of the most well-known Hungarians in the world because of the many memes that use his face. The 78-year-old former electrical engineer has been living in a happy marriage for 52 years. He talked about that in a Hungarian TV show since the anchorman, Tibi Kasza, spotted when he talked with his wife via phone, Blikk, a Hungarian tabloid, wrote.
He asked what their secret behind the long marriage was. Mr Arató replied, laughing, the main rule was that his wife was always right.
The famous Hungarian man won HUF 2,750,000 (EUR 7,088) and an electric fireplace, so he was probably not in pain at all at the end of the show.
According to Ripost, Arató said he would spend some of the money on charity. For example, he will support the Budapest Association of Persons with Disabilities.
Hide the Pain Harold is one of the most famous Hungarians
But how did Mr Arató become a world-known meme? The story started in 2010 when an American stock photographer asked him for some photos due to his “painful smile”. He aimed to extend his stock collection. A Nashville (Tenessee) teenager found the photos and made some memes using one of the photos, which became viral on the internet and made Mr Arató one of the world’s best-known guys.
Interestingly, he stayed incognito until 2016. Since then, he has been travelling all around the world meeting and inspiring people. Moreover, he even got a role in a Coca-Cola ad, Magyar Nemzet wrote. Here is the video:
We wrote about how he paralysed traffic in Canada in THIS article.
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Last November, he was in Hongkong:
In Brussels:
Now it is your turn. Guess where Hide the Pain Harold is in this photo and let us know in a comment:
+1 Bonus: As a young man: