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The Biggest Loser is an NBC reality television show that began broadcasting on October 19, 2004. The show features obese contestants in a weight loss competition, with an ultimate prize of $250,000. For the first 3 seasons, the show was hosted by Canadian comedienne Caroline Rhea. Beginning with the show's fourth season, Rhea was replaced with actress Alison Sweeney. Creator/executive director J.D. Roth is the narrator of the series.
Bob Harper, Jillian Michaels and Kim Lyons are personal trainers assigned to help the competitors. Michaels was a personal trainer for the first two seasons and the special editions, but was replaced with Lyons in season 3. The reason for her departure, according to an interview in WHO magazine , was that she was unhappy with the way she was portrayed. Michaels returned to the show in the fourth season, training a third Black team.
In the first three seasons, contestants were housed on a large ranch that offered plenty of indoor and outdoor space, a pool and a fully equipped gym. In the fourth season, the ranch was replaced with a revamped college campus, known on the show as the Biggest Loser Campus.
The trainers are motivated to 'push' their individual contestants by a predetermined bonus structure, with the winning contestants trainer taking home $100,000+.
Season 3 of The Biggest Loser began airing on September 20, 2006. The Biggest Loser 3 involves the largest cast ever, with 50 contestants initially beginning the show, one for each US state. Trainer Kim Lyons joined the show, replacing Jillian Michaels as the Red Team trainer for only one season. After the initial group weigh-in and exercise, 14 contestants were selected to stay on the ranch and the other 36 contestants participated by losing weight at home. Later in the season, at-home players who lost the most weight were brought back to rejoin the cast on the ranch.
In addition to showing the US version, Living TV also produced their own version, which aired in 2005. Bob and Jillian were not involved but they had their own trainers with similar styles. Angie Dowds (counterpart to Jillian) uses a hard no-nonsense approach in training the red team, while Mark Bailey (counterpart to Bob) trains the blue team with a supportive caring approach. The show was hosted by Vicki Butler-Henderson, a motoring journalist turned television presenter who races cars and has hosted shows such as Fifth Gear.
The first season aired on the 6th October 2005 on Living TV in the UK, and also in September 2007 in New Zealand on Prime Television New Zealand. The contestants in order of elimination were:
Season 3 of the US version on Living TV will air the UK in 2007, although it does not appear that a third UK season is planned at this time.
An Australian version of the program first aired at 7.00pm each weeknight on Network Ten from 13 February, to the final episode on 27 April 2006 where the first Australia's Biggest Loser was awarded AUD$200,000. The program featured the same personal trainers as the US version, Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels with Australian host AJ Rochester. Over 6,000 Australians applied to take part, only 12 contestants being chosen to compete, their starting weight ranging from 101kg (Fiona) to 197kg (David). The first Australian biggest loser winner was Adro Sanelli who lost 51.3kg (37.58% of his starting weight).
The second season of the Australian version first went to air on Sunday 4 February 2007 on the Ten Network. It was introduced with personal trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels, who were then taken over by two new Australian trainers, Michelle Bridges and Shannan Ponton, with one extra surprise trainer, Ex-SAS "Commando" Steve Willis. The contestants starting weights range from 108kg to 216kg, the heaviest competitor out of all versions of The Biggest Loser worldwide. The beginning of this series marked some controversy with a contestant quitting and a further two leaving on medical terms. New twists were introduced including "The Walk" which gave individual immunity winners power to change the outcome of the game and a second major twist of introducing 2 new competitors as "The Outsiders" who had trained outside of the game. Their entry caused some upset, especially with Chris entering the competition as the 3rd biggest loser. The final three were Chris, Marty and Pati, Chris won with a 70.1 kg weight loss (46.89% of his starting weight), and Michael won the runners-up prize of AUD$50,000, losing 70kg (42.37% of his starting weight).
The channel, Sahara One, has also started airing a version of The Biggest Loser. The show is called "Biggest Loser Jeetega" (Biggest Loser Wins). The first season piloted in the month of May 2007 with 16 contenders. It is being hosted by a popular Bollywood actor Sunil Shetty and telecast on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m. IST. |
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