{"id":503449,"date":"2026-03-30T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503449\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:01:08","slug":"arnold-schwarzenegger-given-honorary-degree-by-ulster-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503449\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Schwarzenegger given honorary degree by Ulster University"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 19-year-old Schwarzenegger was competing at a Mr Universe competition in London in 1966. <\/p>\n

Although he did not get the title, finishing second, he did catch the attention of the judges, including Ivan Dunbar, a prominent figure in the bodybuilding scene in Northern Ireland at the time.<\/p>\n

In an interview on the chat show Anderson On The Box in 1995, Dunbar said the bodybuilder had great charisma.<\/p>\n

He gave Schwarzenegger some advice after the competition and invited him to take part in a body building show in Belfast.<\/p>\n

When he arrived, Dunbar said he had no money and could not speak English.<\/p>\n

“He didn’t have anything except enthusiasm and talent, and he did have a talent,” he said.<\/p>\n

In a later interview with The Times, external<\/a>, Dunbar said he had paid for Schwarzenegger’s fare over to Northern Ireland and let him stay at his house in Dundonald.<\/p>\n

“Everyone who has ever stayed in our house got an Ulster fry, and Arnold was no different,” Dunbar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old Schwarzenegger was competing at a Mr Universe competition in London in 1966. Although he did not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-503449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}