72 m. ago Why Jillian Michaels left Biggest Loser, is she still friends with Bob Harper and new job

Jillian Michaels does not appear in new Netflix documentary despite her huge role on show

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91 m. ago Biggest Loser star's heart attack and health battle after show finished filming

A new Netflix docuseries looks behind the scenes of the hit reality show

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92 m. ago What happened to Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels as Netflix doc examines reality show

The fitness expert was a big part of the show but does not feature in the Netflix docuseries

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1 hour ago Reality star's body 'shut down' in near death experience on grim challenge show

Netflix's new docuseries, Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the popular reality TV competition that aired for 18 seasons from 2004 to 2016

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2 h. ago Biggest Loser star's emotional confession on health battle since show finished

The reality show is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries

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2 h. ago Reality TV star 'died' after challenge show's medical expert was unaware of

A contestant on The Biggest Loser has shared their experience in a new Netflix documentary

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2 h. ago Biggest Loser contestant says they 'died that day' after extreme challenge on beach

Dramatic shows footage of how contestant's nearly ended in Netflix documentary

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2 h. ago Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser review – how did television ever sink so low?

Cruelty. Contestants who have abuse screamed in their face. Cash prizes. This documentary about a horrific 00s weight-loss reality TV series in the US makes for deeply troubling watchingThe mid-2000s were a peculiar time in television. After the dubious 90s innovations of Jerry Springer in the US were followed by the UK launch of Big Brother, it was clear that using the travails of so-called ordinary people as fuel for small-screen entertainment was an idea with legs. There was a mini goldrush of sorts as programme makers realised that conflict, extremity and dysfunction would always sell – and that any human-interest subject could be shoehorned into some version of reality TV.In Britain, ITV’s The Jeremy Kyle Show began casting its malign spell in 2005. In the US, something similarly queasy (and enduring) had arrived a year earlier in the shape of NBC’s weight loss bootcamp-meets-bearpit, The Biggest Loser, which took contestants living with obesity then belittled them with humilia...

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15 h. ago The Biggest Loser’s Bob Harper says Jillian Michaels didn’t reach out to him after ‘widowmaker’ heart attack

Harper and Michaels worked together for 12 seasons of the weight-loss reality series

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24 h. ago ‘We are obsessed with weight’: Bob Harper on life as a trainer on The Biggest Loser

As a new Netflix documentary looks back at the hugely successful – and highly controversial – TV weight-loss competition, its longest-serving trainer tells allIn Netflix’s new documentary about The Biggest Loser, Joelle Gwynn, a contestant on the televised weight-loss competition, has a message for her former fitness trainer: ‘Fuck you, Bob Harper.’ Gwynn was a contestant on the US show in 2008, and she has just watched a clip of Harper screaming at her to “shut the fuck up” after she failed to run on a treadmill for the specified time. “Oh, and your little dog too,” she adds.The Biggest Loser was a phenomenally successful TV show. It ran for 18 seasons in the US, attracting more than 10 million viewers in its prime and spawning more than 30 international versions, including a UK iteration presented in 2012 by Davina McCall. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The Biggest Loser’s Bob Harper uses Netflix doc to reveal a secret about his trainer past before joining TV hit

A new documentary detailing the reality of the popular weight-loss show is set to premiere on Friday

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