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Bear Grylls//Digital Spy

During a recent live press conference, Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Solís had the misfortune of having a wasp fly into his mouth, only for him to casually swallow it and carry on like it was nothing.

"I ate it. I ate, I ate the wasp," Solís excitedly told horrified reporters, before having a good old laugh about the whole thing.

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Taking a swig of water, he joked: "Pure protein."

Solís's response to waspgate has had Twitter buzzing and people wishing that they could vote for him themselves.

"Wow. Okay, I'm impressed. I would vote for a guy who could eat wasps then laugh afterwards," one person wrote, with another adding: "That guy gives Chuck Norris a run for his money."

From: Digital Spy