Personal Life
Prowse was brought up on the Southmead housing estate in Bristol, Gloucestershire, winning a scholarship to Bristol Grammar School. In his teens, Prowse was 6 ft 5ins tall, and developed an interest in bodybuilding. His early jobs included a bouncer at a dance hall, where he met his future wife, and a lifeguard at Henleaze Swimming Pool. Following his successes in the British heavyweight weightlifting championship from 1961, in 1963 he left Bristol to work for a London weightlifting company.
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