Posts Tagged ‘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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
Is it time for reality TV to go away?
It was announced yesterday that CTV would not produce a new season of Canadian Idol, their once popular reality TV show. But maybe it’s time to give all competitive reality TV a big re-think. In November, when a former contestant on American Idol killed herself in [Read More]
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 [Read More]
Tony Robbins, Steven Seagal to enter the reality TV fray
Ahhh, reality television. Where irony, scripts, plots and viewer dedication go to die (with apologies to Survivor and The Amazing Race). Well, here come two more still semi-successful B-list celebrities looking to capitalize on their last bit of name recognition before a [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
‘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 [Read More]
Survivor: Gabon – Episode 3 Live Thoughts
I don’t get it. Isn’t Survivor: Gabon’s Crystal supposed to be an Olympic athlete? She was one of the last people up the hill in the first challenge. That could just be her pretending to be weaker than she is. In her interview with BuddyTV this week, [Read More]
