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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. ;-)

And oooh, is it shiny.

Not that the old one was a muddy sock with frogs in it, but there’s a lot of interesting things going on this year.

Things I have found so far:

A photo gallery. Some early shots of the trainers kicking some fat booty. If they keep the gallery updated, that’d be just super. So often the official sites update for a week or two and then whoever is in charge just can’t be bothered anymore. I feel your pain, faceless official site webmasters!

There’s also a new video gallery. Nothing very exciting there yet, just the various promo ads you might have already seen somewhere… ;-)
Again, will be interesting if they can keep adding videos to it. This is one area where the official site did alright last year, with regular contestant video diaries and trainer tips appearing fairly regularly for much of the season.

The contestants page is up, but there’s nothing except names and tiny mugshots at present. In what appears to have been a blunder the contestants full names, not just their first names or nicknames, were listed originally. And the image files are still named as such. And the eventual profile pages here on The Recap will have their full names. You can see some of them already, as the existing pages have been updated. And the new pages have been created but they’re quite boring so I haven’t linked them yet.

There’s a couple of other bits and bobs on the site I’ll let you discover for yourself (like a brand new forum, which so far has a distinct lack of moderators who’re cracked in the head) and share in the comments section if you want.

Hopefully the proper profiles will go up on Sunday night once the show has aired. Until then, REMAIN EXCITED. Or sort of ignore it all until things really start, that’s entirely up to you. :-)

Just to let everyone know, if you weren’t already aware, The Biggest Loser Australia’s Official Site ought to be updated today with all the new season stuff. Hopefully profiles of all the contestants, maybe easily accessible versions of each of the ads, maybe some other videos, who knows?

There’s no set time for it to go live, but I’d expect it to be some time in the morning rather than the afternoon, assuming nothing breaks.

Once it does, have a poke around and see what you can find! If you find something interesting, drop a comment in the slot below to let everyone know.

The address is www.thebiggestloser.com.au

[Update: It’s been put off until tomorrow. Booo!]

[Update #2: Friday? Maybe?]