The owner of my a gym that I worked at years ago used to host a local NPC show in town. He was telling me how he hired Paul Dillet to guest pose one year back when Paul was at his peak. He picked Paul up at the airport and he said he was in the middle of offseason and was literally the most massive bodybuilder he had ever seen. He said he almost started laughing when he saw Paul walking towards him at the airport bc he looked so ridiculous. He said he was wearing a tank top and those baggy style 90s workout pants that bodybuilders always wear, complete with the fanny pack and everything. He said he'll never forget how everyone in the airport just stared at Paul like he was a freak of nature. The first thing Paul wanted to do was eat so he took him to Calhouns (local East Tennessee restaurant). He said Paul ate a rack and a half of ribs and kept asking the waitress for more cornbread over and over. Anyway he took him to the gym later to get a workout in before the guest posing, and he said he was really surprised by how light of weights he used. This is well known now but at the time, I remember being surprised when he told me that as well. Supposedly Paul said he was about 335 at the time, and while huge, his conditioning was obviously pretty bad. He said Paul said he needed laxis for the guest posing and supposedly knew someone in town who could get them. He said the next morning he went to pick up Dillett and he looked like a different person. He had lost about 35 pounds and had veins all over his chest and arms that weren't there the day before. Anyway, he said the guest posing went well, and Paul was obviously very impressive. He did mention one other funny thing was that most of the novice competitors in the show were better at posing than Paul...he was shaking like crazy and could only hold a pose for a few seconds before it looked like he was loosing his balance.
