The Biggest Loser
The Biggest Loser: Showing Diversity–And Bob Harper’s Nervous Breakdown?
The recipe for The Biggest Loser remains unchanged after six seasons. Overweight contestants get help from professional trainers and, even if only one wins the top prize for losing the most weight relative to his/her previous weight, everybody still leaves as the winner because their lives have been turned around. It also helps... »
NBC Sizes Up New Loser Contestants
The new season of The Biggest Loser is offering a double helping of transformation-seeking contestants. Just two days after Michelle Aguilar was named winner on the sixth season finale, NBC has unveiled the 11 new two-person teams who will battle both the bulge—and each other—to become the winningest loser in prime time on The... »
The Biggest Loser: Episode 6.11 Recap
On tonight’s episode of The Biggest Loser, Jillian’s black team deals with their regret over not voting Vicky out after the last weigh-in. It may have been their only opportunity to get rid of this season’s biggest gameplayer. Bob uses the fact that Vicky stayed to stage a reconciliation between her and Amy,... »
Diet tricks of ‘The Biggest Loser: Families’
Fat runs in families. Genes do play a role, but the psychological factors — emotions, traditions, and expectations — that govern every household are every bit as intricate, and just as powerful, as DNA. Weight loss experts have long known this; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers report that most women pack on... »
Life is ‘Working Out’ for Shellay Cremen After Biggest Loser Families
As the playing field dwindles along with the pounds on NBC’s The Biggest Loser Families, the dynamics of the team element continues to be shaken up. This week, after a shocking twist and strategic temptation contest that saw the contestants test their will power and gameplay while in the dark with a nearby... »
Separation on "Biggest Loser" motivates Greer couple
Greer’s Phil and Amy Parham plan to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary next July. During their marriage, the real estate agents have dealt with their share of adversity. So when the couple were split up and placed on separate teams in the last episode of NBC’s “Biggest Loser: Families,” they used it as motivation. Phil was placed... »
Ed Brantley eliminated from ‘The Biggest Loser: Families’
After failing to drop any weight at The Biggest Loser: Families’ fourth week weigh-in, Orange Team member Ed Brantley, a 31-year-old cook from Raleigh, NC, became the second individual contestant eliminated from reality weight-loss show during last night’s broadcast of the conclusion of this week’s special two-part fourth episode. “When I arrived at The... »
‘Biggest Loser’ winner now his firm’s ‘wellness ambassador’
For Bill Germanakos, the defining moment came two years ago when he tried to stuff his 334 pounds into the front seat of the roller coaster at Great Adventure. He and his daughter waited in line for an hour to get the front seat, but when the attendant tried to shove the restraining bar... »
‘Biggest Loser’ couple Matt Hoover, Suzy Preston welcome new baby
Hoover welcomed their second son, Jax Paul, on Thursday evening at Valley Medical Hospital in Seattle, WA, according to People. Jax weighed in at 7.5 lbs. and measured 18.75 inches in length. “We’re so excited to add a new member to our family!” Matt said. “We’re adding another healthy Hoover to our family and... »
‘The Biggest Loser: Families’ eliminates Adam and Stacey Capers
Adam and Stacey Capers’ tireless work ethic in the gym ended up being the catalyst for their dismissal on the first episode of The Biggest Loser: Families, which premiered last night on NBC. The Gainesville, VA husband and wife — who also work together in the same office — were eliminated from the competition... »