It was only this week that Colombia’s pint-sized Edward Nino was on top of the world, named the Guinness Book’s smallest man on the planet.

Now a tiny Nepalese teen is about to torpedo his low-rise glory. Nino, 24, stands 70.21cm small, and lives at home with his mother in a humble house on Bogota’s south end.

His ambitions are anything but humble; Mr Nino dreams of travelling to Japan, China, the US, India and Spain, and of making it big as an actor.

President Juan Manuel Santos invited him to a meeting at the presidential palace – perhaps the high point of his 15 minutes of fame.

The looming rub is that next month Nepal’s Khagendra Thapa Magar, who at 56cm is more than 14cm shorter, turns 18.

That means he will knock Mr Nino out of the top spot as tiniest man.