Our Biggest Loser correspondent, The N&O's Michelle Aldrich, gives us her recap of last night's big finale.
It was a great season and satisfying finale: jaw-dropping results, a few tears, and several commercial breaks timed for optimal suspense. (And by my count, the word "journey" was uttered 13+ times.) We'll sum it up player-by-player, with some help from my loyal sidekick Mr. TiVO.
First up, our host Alison Sweeney: "It looks like a swarm of fabric butterflies has landed in her cleavage."
The season of "The Biggest Loser" with the highest contingent of North Carolina contestants is over.
In my view, this was the most transformative season. You couldn't recognize some of the "Losers!" Kudos to Tracey, who almost won the most weight percentage loss at home race, Daniel, who looks like a teenager now, and Antoine, who is not only a hunk, but gained the love of his life and provided us with a good sweet cry last night.
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Our Biggest Loser correspondent, The N&O's Michelle Aldrich, gives us her recap of last night's show.
Host Alison announces right off the bat that this is makeover week and immediately introduces Tim Gunn from (Project Runway) and Tabatha Coffey (Tabatha’s Salon Takeover). The contestants will be at The Four Seasons for hair, makeup and wardrobe, and will then have to give a speech describing their Biggest Loser Journey to a live audience of 300 people.
If there is one word that is increasingly uttered/abused each season, it would be JOURNEY. If we were to play Biggest Loser Bingo, JOURNEY would be the center square. Biggest Loser Drinking Game? JOURNEY would have me slurring my words faster than you can say Jennie-O-Turkey. Sigh.
Daniel Wright's second appearance on "The Biggest Loser" may have been more emotional than the first.
The Willow Spring man (he's just 20) was the heaviest contestant in the show's history, weighing 454 pounds. At that first finale weigh-in, he was down 142 pounds to 312.
When he was eliminated this week, Daniel had lost another 56 pounds on the show, but better, he gained a lot of insight. During the second chances season, he struggled to lose weight, partly he says, because he wasn't sure he deserved a second chance.
"I was struggling internally," he says. "I was dealing with whether I should be there. By week 8 or 9 I figured out I shouldn't think that way."
Our Biggest Loser correspondent, The N&O's Michelle Aldrich, gives us her recap of last night's show.
On last night's show, Alison panics everyone right off the bat: week nine has a shocking twist: TWO people will go home following the weigh-in. First, the contestant with the smallest percentage of weight loss (by falling below the RED line), and second, another contestant will be eliminated per usual, by voting (once two contestants fall below the YELLOW line).
Our Biggest Loser correspondent, The N&O's Michelle Aldrich, gives us her recap of last night's show.
Week 7 -- we are halfway through the season!
The show opens in the aftermath of Dina's departure last week. Liz doesn't buy the black team's emoting for one second. The alliance of Amanda/Abby/Shay/Daniel is too apparent.
Alison announces that this is "face-off week" and whoever wins the pop challenge will choose the pairings.. . .
Our Biggest Loser correspondent, The N&O's Michelle Aldrich, gives us her recap of last night's show.
Last night's episode opens with the black team stunned by the most recent elimination: the blue team allowed Tracey to stay? Uh, yeah ... Raleigh native Tracey is again weeping that she hates being in that position. Shay excuses herself and says to the camera, "I'm tired of everything being about her." Us too, Shay!
Our Biggest Loser correspondent, The N&O's Michelle Aldrich, gives us her recap of last night's show.
After last week's elimination I was expecting a more melodramatic opener, but week four started with the orange and purple teams talking privately about what went down. In a nutshell, Shay isn't going to trust Raleigh native Tracey (she's a liar!) etc. etc.
When Jillian and Bob learn how the red team went home, they admonish the group that everyone needs to be here, no one should be sacrificing anyone, and they need to fight for themselves!
Our Biggest Loser correspondent, The N&O's Michelle Aldrich, gives us her recap of last night's show.
OK, so Mr. Tivo and I aren't much for reality TV. "Mad Men," "The
Office," and "30 Rock" are what we look forward to. I do like the
sub-genre of celeb-reality (i.e. "The Osbornes," "Tori & Dean,"
"Rachel Zoe") and then a few years ago, we got sucked into NBC's "The
Biggest Loser." It's overwhelmingly positive and it's the rare program
that gets real about food and weight issues in America.
Episode two kicked off with a very l-e-n-g-t-h-y recap of last week's elimination. So bye bye Alexandra - but the upside was she looked GREAT in the clip showing how well she's doing at home. (I love those.) Julio however, is the target of many dirty looks from contestants questioning his being allowed to remain. He'll have a lot to lose and prove this week.
Last night's premiere of NBC's "Biggest Loser" featured three people from North Carolina, Antoine Dove, Daniel Wright, and Tracey Yukich. Unfortunately, it didn't go so well for all of them.
The first challenge of the show involved having the 16 contestants run one mile, with the winner of the race gaining immunity from the first elimination. It would be hard enough for a lot of out-of-shape folks to run a mile, so the fact that these people (some of them weighing over 400 pounds) completed the race was pretty impressive. But the accomplishment didn't come without a few small disasters. Two of the runners ended up having to be hospitalized at the end of the race, including one of the NC contestants.
