Archive for January, 2008

The latest ad to hit Channel 10 has two revelations.

First, the inevitable tease of the inevitable “surprise” twists in the game. Which we will, of course, all love. Because the ads have told us so!

Second, the start date has finally been announced!

The Biggest Loser Season 3 will start on Sunday, February 3rd.

Hooray!

The ad also has part of Sam’s ad at the start, then the sneaky surprise teaser takes over.

What’s the surprise? Well, since it will supposedly be revealed in the first episode, expect something to do with a secret team. Or a secret trainer. Or no teams. Or four teams! Or… they could cut the crap for once.

Nahhhh!

Yes, it’s another of the Season 3 ads uploaded for your viewing pleasure.

This one features Nicola.

AKA Season 3’s Laura. Seriously, check out the resemblance. Or watch the ad for yourself. It probably also helps if you saw Season 2, I’d imagine.

Nicola’s ad starts out with her saying she’d hate to miss out on being able to have kids due to her weight. Oddly, she has a cat in her arms at the time. Don’t women consider cats almost the same as children anyway?

And then… yep! She’s tired of life passing her by. That sounds familiar.

“I just want to be like every other girl.” *sigh* Why? Why must you all be sheep? Being different is good.

Perfect material for Shannan and his love of boxing training I’d say. So long as she’s not as teary as Laura was at times, she ought to be good to watch. She has a very pretty face and if she can get a nice body to match she ought to be a stunner.

Another day, another ad for Season 3 of The Biggest Loser!

Due to popular demand (ie; someone on YouTube asked) today’s video features Steven.

All the videos so far (including ones not yet posted) seem to feature the phrase, “I’m tired of life passing me by.” Either a lot of this season’s fatties genuinely are tired, or these ads have been scripted. Which I’m sure will do wonders for the claims that the entire thing is a setup.Anyway, Steven is another in a long and distinguished line of fathers… wants to be there for his baby, have more energy to play, blah blah blah, you know the drill. I know we have to expect such reasons for being on the show and it’s a way to tug at people’s heartstrings, but I have to wonder if maybe there wasn’t another contestant they could have put on sooner and spaced out the “doting parent” ads out a little more.

I think the lack of Jillian is really going to burn this season – if Steven manages to make it through to the “Makeover Day” stage, she would have attacked that golliwog afro with such glee! Sigh. Hopefully Michelle will be with them for that day this season, but we’ll see.

Most of the rest of his video is filled with the usual claptrap, like it being his “time to step up and do something about my weight.” This ad is really only interesting for the fantastic head of hair Steven has, the rest is just filler.

(Note: I also have Sam and Nicola’s advertisements ready for upload. Anyone have a preference?)

As promised, here is another of the ads for the third Australian season of The Biggest Loser.

This ad features Carrianne and Nicole.

Carrianne is already shaping up to be “this season’s Munnalita”. Not because she’s a horrible she-troll, we’ve not seen much personality yet. No, I’m just referring to her name! And the most baffling part is that her twin sister has such a normal name in comparison, so it’s made even stranger.

Nicole is a fairly hefty 135kg while Carrianne is a fairly modest, by Biggest Loser standards, 110kg. Whilst Nicole’s weight certainly puts her into the realm of legitimately needing the help, I suspect the fact that these two are twins has had more to do with their being selected for the show.

Apparently both girls are nurses, which is another tie-in to the most recently aired US series here – one of the ladies on the US Biggest Loser was also a nurse, looking to lose weight to do her job more effectively. The nurse in the US season didn’t really do all that well, so let’s hope that’s where the similarity ends.

I think Shannan will end up with both girls on his team, but I don’t have any real hard basis for that. His love of boxing training ought to prove useful when there’s the inevitable bickering between the two.

I’m hoping to get a couple more of these available over the next couple of days (depending on whether the first gets yanked) so keep an eye out.

For now, here is an ad featuring one of Season 3’s contestants, Dianne!

Dianne is another in a long and distinguished line of fat Mums to appear on the show, hoping to shed some kilos to give her more energy to play with her son. I doubt she will be the only mother with that goal in mind in this season, but here’s hoping she does well, for her son’s sake, if not her own.

The clip also has a figure from the Australian Bureau of Statistics that says over 49% of Aussies are overweight. Certainly not a fun fact to contemplate, but without knowing whether that is increasing or decreasing that’s less noteworthy than it might have been. I’d’ve picked a time when the number was quite a bit lower and say that it’s an x% increase since year y, just to make it a bit more sensational and dramatic. But the overall tone of the ad is fairly mellow or even melancholy, so perhaps it was decided not to go that route.

And for those keeping score at home, Dianne’s weight is listed at 115kg. Certainly not among the heavyweights of the competition, if you’ll pardon the pun. But the lighter ladies do tend to do a little better overall, since dropping a little weight is a lot more noticeable for them than it is for the 150kg and up girls.

With a young son I’m going to guess she might end up in Michelle’s camp, for that whole female-bonding thing. Anyone want to bet against me?