News about Reg Park

An Antiques Roadshow visitor was left stunned and sad to learn the value of her photographs with Arnold Schwarzenegger's collection. Members of the public were taken by experts to Roundhay Park, Leeds, in the latest episode. One woman brought a collection of bodybuilder magazines from the 1940s to be admired, but expert Clive Farahar discovered something much more valuable.

Arnold Schwarzenegger envisioned himself as a professional bodybuilder, he hung pictures of shirtless boxers, wrestlers, and musclemen on his walls. Though the bodybuilding champion was simply adorning his heroes, his mother expressed skepticism over her son's sexuality. Schwarzenegger recalled his mother's call for a local doctor after she was shocked by the sweaty bodybuilders plastered on his wall.

Schwarzenegger, 75, described how his mother was left wondering if he was gay because he had photos of oiled-up bodybuilders on the bedroom wall. When growing up in his forthcoming Netflix documentary Arnold, Terminator actor Matt Damon claims his parents were against his aspirations to be a bodybuilder. As Reg Park, the famed bodybuilder, appeared in a sequence of films in the 1960s, he was growing up in his tiny town in Thal, Austria. Reg Park's training program was included in the impressionable young teen's first paper. As a way to stay motivated, he printed several posters and pictures of Reg and other well-known body builders around the time, such as Chet Yorton and Frank Zane (pictured right) on his wall.