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The Biggest Loser (season 1. The Biggest Loser: Challenge America is the fourteenth season of the NBCreality television series entitled The Biggest Loser. The contestants will compete to win a $2. It premiered on January 6, 2. Alongside veteran trainer Bob Harper and returning trainer Dolvett Quince, Jillian Michaels returned for the first time since Season 1.
The contestants have been split into 3 teams, the white team trained by Jillian, the blue team by Bob, and the Red team by Dolvett. In addition, three younger contestants (ages 1. This was the first time since season 1. America decided who made it to the live finale.
Contestants. A total of fifteen contestants are competing in the season, divided into three teams: Red, Blue and White. Three teenagers are also participating, but are not subject to elimination. Name. Team. Singles. Status. Total Votes.
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The Biggest Loser: Families is the sixth season of the NBC reality television series The Biggest Loser. The sixth season premiered on September 16, 2008, featuring. Current status: The Biggest Loser is yet to be renewed for season 18. We monitor the news to keep you updated on the release date of The Biggest Loser season 18.
Teenagers. Noah ? Alison Sweeney first introduced the three teenage ambassadors who will compete in the game as the face of childhood obesity: Biingo, Lindsay and Sunny. These contestants will lose weight alongside all the contestants and support their team color throughout the entire season. Afterwards, the trainers Bob, Dolvett and returnee Jillian face the crowd and re- introduce themselves to the new outreach of the show.
Alison then called up the fifteen official contestants one by one. Among them are 3. Michael, a father who wants to reach out for his only son; 2. Jackson, the show's first openly gay contestant who wants to stand up for his bullying and sexuality; and 3. TC, a father of three that vowed to lose weight after a car crash affected his older son's capabilities. The fifteen arrive at the Ranch to find out their assigned teams and get straight into the gym for their first workout.
While the adults worked out in the gym, Dolvett worked with the teens outside with activity- based exercises. The next day, the contestants competed in their first competition of the season. Teams had to spell out the word . The teens directed the adults from bungee in the air. It was a close three team battle, but the White Team successfully spelled it first, winning the team a five- pound advantage in the first weigh- in.
For the last- chance workout, the contestants still showed extreme struggle in the gym, especially for White Team's Nikki. When Jillian worked with Nikki one- on- one, she still lacked motivation and concentration. A frustrated Jillian gave her two options: keep on exercising or walk out. Nikki's emotional toll proved to be too much, and decided to walk out of the ranch for good.
At the first weigh- in of the season, contestants received the surprising news of the Red Line, meaning the losing team's last placer would automatically be eliminated by the end of the night. With the White Team's five pound advantage, the four player team lost a total of 6. The Red Team had to lose more than 8. Lastly, the Blue Team had to lose 9. White. Despite Alex's shocking weight loss of only nine pounds, the team was spared with 9.
With 3. 9. 9% of weight loss, TC lost the least between Danni, Nathan and Pam, and was therefore eliminated. At the end of the episode, it was revealed that TC currently weighed at 3. Week 2: . Teams trained in specially built outdoor gyms by their trainers for the entire week. The White Team's motivation wasn't enough for Jillian, continuing with her . Because of their lack of working harder for the week, Jillian takes her team inside to personally improve and rejuvenate their skills. For Week 2's challenge, Biingo, Lindsay and Sunny returned with their teams alongside NFL player Antonio Gates.
Teams competed against each other in football obstacle courses to test their speed, strength and agility. With a three for three, the White Team pulled another surprising win.
The White Team won Sunny's school a $5,0. NFL football player. On the second weigh- in, the Blue Team hit a strong note until Jeff's shocking zero weight loss for the week.
The Red Team easily surpassed Blue's total weight loss. The White Team lost only one pound shy of beating the Blue Team. Nathan fell victim to the red line with his five- pound weight loss, and was eliminated. Since leaving the ranch, Nathan recently weighed in at 2. Week 3: . The team who accumulated the least points would suffer the disadvantage of being isolated in a temptation room full of junk food and video games.
The Red Team won the challenge with 3,0. With the Blue and White Team tied in at 2,0. White Team won. The Blue Team's loss gave them the disadvantage of being locked in the room for 4 1. Back home with the teenagers, Dr.
Joanna Dolgoff visited their parents for their continuous benefit. The ranch, later in the week, went forward with another weekly challenge to win groceries for a year. Team members had to rummage through a sticky pit of bubblegum to a giant gumball machine, operating the machines until they obtained twenty for their team. With the White Team with only two members, Danni was recruited to help the Blue Team and Pam to cheer on for the Red Team (because she was not medically fit for the challenge). Red won their team challenge. At the weigh- in, tensions ran high yet again with the White Team.
But first, the Blue Team posed a strong team percentage of 2. However, after Cate's, Jackson's and Lisa's weight loss of two pounds, the Red Team finished with a weak 1. After two painful weeks, the White Team achieved their first weigh- in victory with Danni's six pound weight loss and Pam's staggering nine pound weight loss.
The Red Team suffered their first weigh- in loss, and faced the brand new elimination voting booth adjacent to the gym. Joe, being the team's highest percentage, was immune from elimination. With three votes, Cate was eliminated. Returning home, Cate weighs in at 1.
Week 4: . If the group failed to meet the goal, the person with the lowest percentage of weight loss would fall below the red line. After a pop challenge about nutrition and a fitness test (where the kids served as ambassadors), the weight needed was reduced to 6. In the gym, ebullience transformed into tension after several contestants were giving up. Gina blew a fuse after a conflict with Joe, causing Jillian to grow very frustrated. Alex was also swathed in a defeatist mind- set after Jillian stressed that she wasn't doing her absolute best. Despite this emotional rollercoaster, they managed to mend fences.
At the challenge, the contestants had to dig sand from dunes, finding five green arrows. Once they found all five, they had to retrieve a flag and race to the end of the pier to hoist it. They managed to do so with six seconds to spare, giving them another 1. Instead of showing a last chance workout, the players went through a trust building exercise, where two people would hold hands and sidestep across a thin wire, as the gap increased between wires. Even though there were tense pairings (such as Gina and Joe), the contestants got to experience trust on a whole new level. At the weigh in, the goal number was 5. There were a lot of mixed feelings, as Gina's positive mind- set ticked Jillian off, the latter saying that Gina should have been positive this whole week.
Danni lost 7 pounds, starting the team off strong, and falling into . However, the rest of the contestants pulled dismal numbers: Joe lost 6, Alex lost 3, Jackson lost 5, and Gina and Jeff lost 4. Jeff, positive that he would go home, was left speechless when Francelina only lost 2 pounds, falling below the red line. Francelina was eliminated, and Jeff especially was very upset about it, as he and Francelina formed a very special bond throughout the competition. Since leaving the ranch, Francelina is down to 1. She looks at exercise as a form of catharsis, and she and Jeff are officially dating.
Week 9: . The contestants placed blocks on other contestants' podiums. The winner was the contestant who placed the most blocks on other contestants' podiums to . Jackson was begging other contestants to save Gina and his plan worked, and he was to be sent home. Joe won the challenge, placing 2. When Jackson was told he had to choose one other contestant to go home with him off the ranch, Jeff volunteered to go. At the other challenge the contestants had to hold 4. Gina won, earning immunity, as long as she didn't gain weight.
The contestants had to face their biggest fear Gina had to lay in a coffin until she told Jillian why she needed to be at the ranch, while Danni had to sing in public, Alex had to get down and dirty in the mud, and Joe had to swim 1. At the weigh in Gina lost 7 lbs with immunity she was safe, Jackson and Alex both fell below the yellow line by 1 lb. At the elimination, Alex was voted off.
Since she first started at The Biggest Loser, she has lost 7. Week 1. 0: . Tim Gunn and Ken Paves arrive to help the contestants find new looks to help them complete their transformations. Following their makeovers, all of the contestants are sent home for the rest of the week, where they reveal their new bodies to their friends and family members. As the contestants settle back into life at home, they are given a challenge from Allison: if the contestants can lose 5% of their respective body weights while at home, they will be granted immunity. Anyone who fails to lose 5% of his or her body weight will be up for elimination. After their week at home, the contestants return to the ranch for the weigh in. To win immunity, she needs to lose at least nine pounds.
She manages to lose ten, successfully meeting her goal and winning immunity. He needs to lose a minimum of twelve pounds to win immunity. He loses fifteen pounds and wins immunity as well. He needs to lose at least fourteen pounds to win immunity, but has a personal goal to lose at least fifteen pounds. He exceeds both goals, losing a total of seventeen pounds. Jeff is the fourth to weigh in, and to win immunity he must also lose at least fourteen pounds. He loses a whopping nineteen pounds, demolishing his goal and securing immunity for himself.
What’s it like to be a contestant on The Biggest Loser? Club. In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get there.
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NBC’s The Biggest Loser has inspired tens of thousands of people—including about 1. It’s also inspired all manner of speculation about the show’s behind- the- scenes happenings. How do contestants lose so much weight in about six months, and what’s life like on the ranch when the cameras aren’t rolling? Philadelphia DJ Nicole Michalik knows. She was a contestant on the fourth season of the show, and now hosts the weekly Biggest Loser podcast on the TV Talk network. She spent weeks eating healthy and working out for hours on end.
She’s kept in touch with her trainer, Bob Harper, and other contestants from the show, and while she didn’t win her season, she has no illusions about the show and its fairy tales of transformation. Club talked to Michalik about the contestants’ food and workouts, as well as whether The Biggest Loser is a realistic portrayal of weight loss.
Club: How did you get on The Biggest Loser? Nicole Michalik: I got cast because I was overweight my entire life, but I was a ham and always liked to talk and entertain.
I never watched the show before, but I was sitting on my couch, probably just finishing an order of mozzarella cheese fries, and I actually turned it on. It was season two and right at the end, it says, “Do you think you have what it takes to be on season three of The Biggest Loser?” And I’m like, “You know what, I’m fat, I’m a ham, I’m competitive, I definitely think I can do this.” So, I did an audition tape.
At that time I was working part- time as an on- air DJ, and I was working full- time as a receptionist. I did a whole thing about how I work all the time and I’m trying to make it full- time in radio. And I want my own show so, between working these jobs, what do I do?
I go to the menu drawer. I had this drawer in my house that had all different kinds of menus from Philly. There was a place that delivered burritos, so I did that whole thing and then I’m like, “To prove to you I’m going to do it, I’m going to run up the Rocky steps.” Halfway through, I started pretending I couldn’t go and started crawling. I was like, “Please, Biggest Loser. Help me make it to the top,” and got down on my hands and knees. Then, I sent it with very Philly- centric items: Tastykakes, soft pretzels, and take out menus.
I was like, “I surrender these to you, Biggest Loser. Please pick me.” Fast- forward to about a month later, I got an email saying that they need more information. So I sent them more pictures and a little bit more information. Then I never heard anything.
I knew I was supposed to be on the show, but I just forgot about it and kept eating mozzarella cheese fries. In February of 2. I was just sitting on my couch, watching something on Ti. Vo and I got a phone call. They said, “Is this Nicole?
Congratulations, you're a semi- finalist for season four of The Biggest Loser.” I never reapplied; they just kept all my information and used me for the next season. So they’re like, “You have to drive to Norfolk, Virginia, or Columbus, Ohio to do an on- camera interview.” So my two best friends and I drove to Norfolk, and we stayed at the Double. Tree, which means we got free cookies. And I did this two- hour, on- camera interview with two of the casting directors. Then for the next six weeks, every day was like, “Send pictures of when you were at the prom, send pictures of when you were 8. Do you know how to swim? Do you have any tattoos?” It was a million questions and a million phone interviews, and that went on for about six weeks.
And this was before smart phones, so my poor mom and dad had to go to CVS to scan pictures and send them in. They really make you jump through a lot of hoops, because I think they want to see how bad you want it. Then it was a Friday night—I remember it felt so poetic, because I was at the Cheeseburger In Paradise restaurant—and I got the phone call. You’re locked away in this hotel room and the casting people have your key.
We met with the executives, we went to the doctor, and we had to do a photo shoot. One day you would see somebody and the next day you wouldn’t, because producers were weeding everyone out. That was a weeklong process of every kind of interview and test you could imagine. Then they pulled us in a room and said, “Congratulations, you are season four of The Biggest Loser. Your life will forever be defined as before The Biggest Loser and after.” And I remember thinking to myself, “Who do these assholes think they are? My life is not going to be defined by a reality show.” But they were a 1.
I always say, “Oh my God, that’s when I was fat,” or, “Oh my God, that was before the show.” That’s totally how I define: before and after. Anyway, then I had to run down to my hotel room and call my parents, call my best friends, and email my boss. I said, “I have no idea when I’ll talk to you,” and then they came knocking at my door and I had to hand over like my wallet, my ID, my cell phone, my computer and that was it. The next day we started shooting episode one. AVC: So it just starts right away?
You can’t go home and eat a whole cake? They don’t tell you anything that’s going on. You’re locked in this hotel room, and I thought they were going to watch us so I started eating healthy that week. I didn’t even eat poorly, because I didn’t want them to think I wasn’t committed. It turns out that I probably should have, because the higher your weight when you start, the better.
But I was so nervous that I actually ended up losing five pounds just being in the hotel room, because I was afraid to eat. You go to sleep, and the next day you wake up and you’re in a van.
They took us to the Mojave Desert, and we shot episode one. AVC: Do you have a sense of what producers were looking for when they picked you over someone else? NM: I think it’s a combination of things. We spent an entire day getting medical tests. A lot of people aren’t actually physically fit to be able to do it. We worked out six to seven hours a day.
Even though we were fat, we still had to be healthy and there were some people that just weren’t healthy enough. They also typecast every season. You have the mom who wants to be a better mom, and you have the dad who lost his father to alcoholism and doesn't want to be the same kind of dad. I was the single girl who wanted to lose weight so I can come home and slut it up around Philly. I was the typical single girl that was living in the city and working on her career and just wanted to be hot, basically. My whole thing was that I wanted to wear skinny jeans. AVC: What’s a normal day of shooting like?
Out of seven days, usually five days were shooting days, and two days were dark days, which meant there was no crew there, but we still worked out. My season was season four, so it was a while ago and before the show got insanely popular.
Bob was my trainer, and we saw him every single day. Even the days the cameras weren’t there, he would still come over, or we would go to his house or go for manicures and pedicures or we’d go to the movies. They made us live a semi- normal life even though we had no computers, no cell phones, no televisions, nothing. For instance, if it was a challenge day, we would wake up and work out on our own and then the cameras would be there and we’d probably shoot for like two hours, then we would go do the challenge.
The cameras weren’t there 2. They were only there for a certain amount of time. The day before weigh in was our last- chance workout. So that’s when we would get up at 6 a. Then we’d work out for another two hours and do on- camera interviews. Then we’d work out for another two hours, so it was always broken up like that. AVC: Was Bob your only trainer?
NM: Bob was my only trainer, yeah. AVC: You can’t even listen to the radio when you’re working out, right?
NM: On dark days when they weren't shooting, Bob would bring this really big Bose speaker and he and Jillian . We’d all be in the gym together even though Bob, Jillian, and Kim . We did have i. Pods and music when the cameras weren’t there. But when the cameras were actually on us, we just had to get our asses kicked with no music, which was miserable. AVC: How do the off days work? NM: We shot in Camarillo, which is about 6. L. A., so the trainers live pretty far away.
On dark days the production crew would drive us down into actual L. A. We would go to Whole Foods. We would eat salad at Whole Foods—we couldn’t actually eat anything—but we were allowed to still exist a little bit. We were always with a production crew, and we always had a babysitter. Somebody was always with us, because they needed to know where we were at all times. AVC: And they would pay for your lunches and your movies? They would have a credit card, or they would be expensed.
The first month we were there we had no contact with the outside world. Then, after a month, we started getting letters from home—actual, physical letters.
But it wasn’t until we were there for two and a half months that we finally got phone calls. I was 2. 6, and I was having such a good time. I couldn’t have cared less. I’d call my mom and dad, and I would talk to them for six minutes. I’d rotate and call a best friend every week, but you couldn’t say anything, because there was somebody sitting right next to you. So no one really knew what was going on. Okay, cool, see you, love you.” I couldn’t have cared less, but people that are married and have kids and stuff, it was a lot harder on them.
AVC: Why did you think it was fun? It sounds like a grind. NM: It sounds crazy, but I loved every minute that I was there.