'Bachelorette' winner, Firefly and Irish Spring set new Guinness showering record

Andy Glass, 29, was not dressed for a typical Friday morning at Firefly Music Festival.

While female festivalgoers strolled by in bikinis, towels slung over their shoulders, with men in a uniform of shorts, sunglasses and flip-flops, Glass was conspicuously dressed in a gold-piped blazer, gray dress pants, white shirt and turquoise blue tie. 

But without Glass, the event wouldn't have merited the hype. He's an adjudicator for Guinness World Records and was at Firefly on Friday to validate whether more than 331 people showered together for 5 minutes. 

"This is a more raucous crowd at 10 a.m. than I'm used to," Glass said. 

He's adjudicated attempts for the fastest juggler and the longest baking marathon, so a dance party for hundreds in a shower, complete with a DJ, is not his typical work scene.

But it's a good thing he was there.

Firefly fans helped break the Guinness World Records title for the most people showering simultaneously (at a single venue) on Friday by squeezing 396 people into the custom shower.

Showers are a commodity at the festival, which opened officially on Thursday evening but welcomed its first campers on Wednesday morning. Although you can shower for a price, the idea of a free shower — even one with hundreds of other people — was enticing enough to draw a line of hundreds by 9:30 a.m., a half-hour before the main event was set to start.

Besides a free shower, Irish Spring swag and the opportunity to help break a record, fans were there to see "The Bachelorette" winner Shawn Booth, who's engaged to former "Bachelorette" Kaitlyn Bristowe. Booth, a personal trainer, hopped into the shower with hundreds of others — and yes, it's the most people he's ever showered with, although he did go on some group dates on the show, he quipped. 

DJ Jim Pierson and workers in Irish Spring T-shirts kept the normally sleepy morning crowd hyped as they led groups of festivalgoers into the shower before Booth hopped in and they turned on the water to start the official 5 minutes needed to break the record. They also had to be able to move freely, get wet and lather with soap or shampoo, Glass said.

Booth is sticking around for the entire festival where he'll be watching out for Portugal. The Man and Eminem. 

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