Archive for February, 2008

Previously, on The Biggest Loser. Pigs in mud! Again! This footage never gets old, does it?

Tonight the contestants face The Warehouse and apparently they’ll face a crucial decision which will split the group.

And initial training reveals devastating results! Sean takes a tumble and Shannan is talking to John and saying he’s no longer in the competition.

And Bob points at us and tells us we’re the Black Team again! Awesome!

Other things happen, too. Would you like to know more?

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Well, it hasn’t taken long and we’re already off and racing on the forum conspiracies front.

The funniest one so far has been the suggestion that there weren’t really 30 people in the running on the first day at all, it was some lesser number walking up the driveway and being picked over by Michelle and Shannan.

Just to lay this one to bed, I’m posting a couple more images to go along with the earlier one confirming 30 Fatties. You can find them after the break.

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Previously on The Biggest Loser, the contestants were as happy as pigs in mud! Or at least as sweaty as pigs in mud. And muddy as pigs in mud. Piggy as mud in pigs?

Tonight, those accepted into the White House will face the scales for the first time and the Commando begins kicking some fat booty.

And tonight we finally get the credits for the show… And Shannon Noll’s Lift is back! Thank the baby Jebus everyone!
Amusingly there’s a point right near the end where they’ve obviously cut it a little short so they can fit more people in the credits? Or just sloppy editing? Time will tell.

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Following on from the interview with Sam in the SMH yesterday, two other papers have interviews with their local participants. The Sunshine Coast Daily has John Morrall while the Central Western Daily has Michael Sandford.

Both articles are worth a read for different reasons. John’s reveals a little more about why he applied to be on the show, and like so many others before him it’s due to a recent health scare:

John, who has had heart problems and recently had a bit of a heart scare, said he was motivated by his wife and family to shed the kilos and improve his health.

“The fear on her face is a picture I will carry with me for the rest of my life,” he said.

The article goes on to say that his daughter is expecting a baby soon and he’d like to get his life in order. He was also recently spotted in Maroochydore looking “decidedly slimmer and tanned”. So it sounds like, inside the house or not, John’s on the right track.

The piece on Michael is interesting for another reason. I’m sure we’re all well aware that the show is edited down for time considerations, so while we only saw maybe a half hour in total of the contestants being put through their paces in last night’s show, they were actually exercising for two or more hours.

Many have been assuming that because we didn’t see anybody quit during this session that nobody did give up. Not so, says Michael:

“No matter what [the trainers] threw at me I did it. A lot of things I did would, and did, make a lot of people quit but I never did. I never quit once.”

So it seems like, at least according to him, some folks did give up at some points during the selection process. I expect the producers had good reason not to show this, perhaps saving the “breakdown” for one of the Commando’s sessions, to reinforce his toughness?

At any rate, it’s interesting to sort of peek behind the curtain like this from time to time.

The rest of the story is just about Michael wanting to get his confidence back and perhaps get back into his local first grade footy team, so he can play with his brothers again. With Shannan’s background in footy training, you have to figure that’s a match made in heaven!

To read the rest of the articles, click here for John’s story or click here for Michael’s.

Well, after all the talk and all the advertisements and all the annoying songs and…

Let me start over. The new season of The Biggest Loser has begun!

The first episode of the show typically involves a weigh-in, but this time around things have been a little different, mostly due to the large number of contestants.

Want to know what happened? Read on…

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