10-year old boy becomes global sensation after he tried to eat a whole watermelon

10-year-old Mitchell Schibeci went viral all over the world after he tried eating a whole watermelon at a cricket match in Australia.

It wasn't just a slice of watermelon... but almost the whole thing. As this video below shows, Mitchell munched on the entire fruit, outside, inside, everything.

Schibeci, who is the son of Australian sports reporter and broadcaster Tony Schibeci, admits he was hoping to get some attention.

“I saw people do crazy things, like that mullet boy who got on television, so I thought I might try it too,” he told Channel Seven News.

It worked, too, as the #WatermelonBoy hashtag lit up social media and got him coverage around the world, from ABC in Australia to the BBC in Britain to the website of People magazine in the United States.

"I'm not really a hero, I'm just a normal average kid," Schibeci told the BBC.

His proud papa crowed about Mitchell's newfound fame on Twitter:

It seems, however, that Mitchell's watermelon-eating fame came with a price. The boy said he had to go to the bathroom "like seven times," according to Sporting News Australia.

At the end of the day, Mitchell took what was left of his prize watermelon to bed.

His father tweeted a picture of him sleeping with the half-eaten fruit:

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