11 h. ago Jillian Michaels goes nuclear on Bob Harper and Netflix’s Biggest Loser docuseries: ‘This is false’

Michaels posted an email chain with her and the ‘Biggest Loser’ producers on Tuesday

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43 h. ago Netflix's 'best movie in years' coming to cinemas for one weekend only after millions of views

Netflix's biggest original film of 2025 is coming to cinemas next weekend for showings across the UK - and fans are already calling for a sequel

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43 h. ago Netflix's biggest film of the year heading to cinemas this weekend after raking in millions of views

The critically acclaimed musical animated film was released in June and quickly became a streaming sensation

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52 h. ago Terence Stamp remembered by Priscilla director Stephan Elliott: ‘Those eyes turned everybody to jelly’

The Australian director reflects on his 32-year friendship with Stamp, who was initially ‘absolutely terrified’ to play a trans woman – and their work on the Priscilla sequelTerence Stamp, face of 60s British cinema, dies at 87Stamp was the mesmerising dark prince of British cinemaTerence Stamp: a life in picturesI first saw Terence in The Collector (1965) when I was a kid. It struck in my head as the ultimate horror film – it terrified the daylights out of me. Terence’s greatest beauties were his eyes – in some of the early films you don’t see it, but in person, when they were shining, he could hold a room. He’d sit there and say, “Watch this, I’m going to stop a restaurant.” And he could do it. I saw him do it! It was extraordinary. He once told me that he used to have real fun on Superman when he was bored, stuck on top of the ice castle. “I’d just stare down until everyone went quiet,” he said.We tried many actors when casting Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of ...

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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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5 d. ago Cillian Murphy debuts striking new look as he transforms into struggling headteacher in first trailer for Netflix film that 'broke his heart'

The Peaky Blinders and Oppenheimer star is taking on one of his most compelling roles to date as the principal teacher of a last-chance reform school.

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5 d. 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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8 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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1 week ago Emma Raducanu will win 'biggest purse in tennis history' if she repeats history

Emma Raducanu will be hoping to win a second US Open title next month and could rake in millions in what would be her second triumph at Flushing Meadows

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1 week ago Netflix The Thursday Murder Club's full trailer showcases stellar cast days before release

The Thursday Murder Club is set to be one of Netflix's biggest releases of the year, with a star-studded cast including Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Pierce Brosnan and Celia Imrie

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1 week ago The Rise and Fall of the Clash Redux review – screen encore for punk’s raging heroes

Danny Garcia’s second take on the band’s story looks past their riotous ascent to the gloomier and rather less watchable years that followedHere’s a downbeat, slightly miserable documentary about the Clash, a “redux” in fact by director Danny Garcia of his 2012 film The Rise and Fall of the Clash. Perhaps that earlier version had more to say about how the Clash came raging out of London’s punk scene in the 1970s; this one only really gets going in 1982 when Joe Strummer boots drummer Topper Headon out of the band for heroin addiction, then a year later kicks out guitarist Mick Jones. Rise and Fall Redux is a portrait of the band as a sinking ship, finally disbanding in 1986.It is a film groaning with talking heads. Pick of them is Viv Albertine of the Slits who sums the Clash up nicely when she says: “They were best when they were small and angry when they were hard and angry and poor.” Others indulge in a bit intellectual waffle. The only member of the classic lineup to appear is g...

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2 w. ago Platonic season two review: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne stop at nothing to make you laugh – and it’s joyful TV

It’s so nice to watch a show that tries this hard to induce chuckles. But there’s also real depth to this gag-packed comedy about two mischief-loving friends reuniting in midlifeThe Studio, Seth Rogen’s cosy Hollywood satire which dropped on Apple TV+ earlier this year, features a glut of industry figures cameoing as themselves: Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, Ron Howard, Zoë Kravitz, Nicholas Stoller. Unless you also happen to work in the movie business, that last name probably won’t mean much: in the show Stoller is introduced as a reliable writer of kid-friendly fare – The Muppets, Captain Underpants – who can make a decent job of the IP-driven film (“the Kool-Aid movie”) that Rogen’s studio head, Matt Remick, has been forced to pursue.In real life, Stoller did indeed write those films. Yet he’s also a key figure in the later years of the Judd Apatow-abetted Frat Pack era, responsible for a number of box office hits including Sex Tape, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get ...

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2 w. ago PR expert names Love Island 2025 stars set to rake in millions and those going back to day jobs

With Love Island 2025 now over, it's time to see which contestants will be able to make a fortune from their time in the villa

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