She’s not even half the person she used to be, and Helen Phillips couldn’t be more thrilled. After losing a record 140 pounds, the 48-year-old housewife from Sterling Heights, Mich., won $250,000, a new life and the title of “Biggest Loser.”
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Contestants on “The Biggest Loser” aren’t just overweight. They suffer from being not normal and even half-dead.
That’s according to Jillian Michaels, the buff, tough-talking trainer on the hit weight-loss show. Michaels said she would never insult the plus-size players she is helping trim down. But sometimes they need an extra push to get the lead [...]
Amanda was pitted to weigh in against Sione, who she compared to Mount Everest. And even though Sione had a bad week, Amanda had an even worse one. Bob attributed it to the amount of stress she was under and the effect stress has on the body. Amanda wanted to stay on campus and have [...]
“I wish I hadn’t done that…it looked bad.”
That was Dane, facing the media today during a conference call with NBC, where nearly all the questions were about the flap that erupted last week when it was revealed that the epilogue to the show did not exactly reflect reality. Dane did not in fact run a [...]
Producers of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” are considering a return to the single-contestant format that launched the reality hit, but with a localized twist.
For the fall edition of the show, the series’ producers intend to cast single competitors from cities topping an annual “Fattest Cities in America” list.
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When Bill Germanakos lost 164 pounds on “The Biggest Loser” and was crowned the season 4 champ, viewers might have guessed that all the hard work was behind him. But after the cameras stopped rolling, Germanakos went back home, where all the demands of his full-time job and family were waiting for him — as [...]
Former Biggest Loser contestants Amy and Marty Wolff just keep gaining…from their reality show experience, that is. First a relationship, then a marriage and now, a baby!
The pair met as competitors representing the states of Maryland and Missouri, respectively, on the third cycle of NBC’s weight-loss competition. In addition to shedding a combined 252 pounds, [...]
When Michelle started “The Biggest Loser” she said that “I feel like I’m living half a life. I’m now in a place where I’m willing to do whatever it takes to live a full life.” Although she almost quit the show halfway through the season, she said she decided to surrender to the process and [...]
In the final week of “The Biggest Loser,” the trainers pushed the four remaining contestants and gave them last-minute tips to keep losing weight at home.
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Well, Amy might have been the only person who didn’t see this coming. Somehow, she was fairly oblivious to the alliance between the other three members of her team. Why she didn’t vote Vicky off last week is still baffling – it just left Vicky on campus with a serious grudge because Brady was gone. [...]
With five members of the Blue team in the house, Brady felt confident that even if he fell below the yellow line with a Black team member, he would be safe. But Amy looked out for her own best interests, and voted off a fellow Blue team member, which created a tie. Brady was sent [...]
Jillian Michaels — the brash, in-your-face personal trainer from NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” — is hoping you’ll find that getting fit can literally be a game.
“Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2009″ was released this week for the Nintendo Wii system, and promises to bring you almost everything people watch Michaels for on the TV show: aggressive [...]