Rugby league legend Paul 'Fatty' Vautin has revealed he once received a "horrendous" gift attached to fan mail sent to him at The Footy Show.
Vautin was the popular host of the iconic show that aired for 25 seasons from 1994 up until 2018.
During his 24 years on the show, Vautin said the team would regularly get fan mail, particularly during its halcyon days.
However, the Queensland and Manly great revealed there was one letter which caught him off guard when a woman named Victoria sent in what appeared to be pubic hair along with a message that told Vautin; "I would do anything for you."
"We used to get mail to The Footy Show," Vautin told Wide World of Sports' Story Time.
"There's a letter from Victoria one day, addressed to Paul Vautin.
"So I open it up and it says, 'Hi Fatty, I would do anything for you.'
"This actually happened, I can't make this up – out comes a bunch of pubic hairs. The sheila had actually taped a bunch of pubic hairs to the letter and it flew out.
"There's this bunch of ginger looking ... it's horrendous.
"I wrote back and asked her to send a photo," Vautin joked. "It didn't go so well."
Reminiscing about their awkward and hairy encounters on Story Time, rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns revealed one of his own.
Johns said he witnessed "big foot" when former rugby league hard man Darren Britt asked to be 'manscaped' after noticing a growing trend among his teammates.
"Talking about the pubic hair Fatty got sent to him, we were on tour one year in England. This was late 1990s or 2000s when everyone started manscaping," Johns said.
"Dean Britt comes to my room, a big country bloke from Orange, and goes, 'I've noticed all the blokes from the showers have all trimmed up, any chance you can do me?'
"I said, 'yeah not a problem.'
"He takes his jumper off and I just went 'what!' It was like Big Foot came into my room.
"I get the clippers and I'm going all over his back, his shoulders, and he had this red ginger hair.
"I reckon for the next two weeks I'd wake up and on the pillow would be these ginger hairs, it was just all through the room."
from WWOS http://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/the-horrendous-pubic-hair-letter-paul-vautin-received/3ec9551b-6712-4fdd-9896-4d72bce2bcf7
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