The official site for the show has finally seen fit to grace us with some meatier contestant profiles.

Age, date of birth, height (for some), occupations, marital status… it’s all there.

If you follow the left hand column down to the box where their profile information is listed you will notice a “more” link underneath that box. If it’s not being obscured by a Burgen bread ad. That “more” link contains a Q&A with each contestant where they reveal their favourite things and answer a bunch of stock questions about what they hope to get out of the show, why they’re fat, what being not fat means to them, etc. Some very interesting responses in there so it’s worth checking them out.

You can find links to the contestants via the Official Biggest Loser Site or you can view their profiles here on the Recap by clicking the names over in the right sidebar. Note that neither site has extended profiles for the contestants who were sent home, only those who have gone into the White House or are now the Black Team have proper profiles at this point. Should the others come back to the game, expect them to have proper profiles too!

Why reproduce all the same information here? Because if or when Season 4 starts it is likely the old contestant data will be purged, as happened to the Season 2 contestants, and all the information will be lost. If at some point I want to compare a Season 3 contestant to someone from Season 2, it’s much easier if I still have the data available. And the same will apply for Season 4.

Plus the Recap site has way fewer ads and I fixed some of the spelling mistakes. ;-)