Former Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels is out as co-host of The Doctors, the show she joined after quitting the NBC reality show. The New York Post reports that “[i]nsiders say the addition of Michaels to ‘The Doctors’ lineup ‘wasn’t a good fit,’ since Michaels was the only non-physician among the four co-hosts (Travis Stork, …
When Jillian Michaels announced that she was quitting The Biggest Loser, she said she was leaving to “focus on becoming a mommy and doing more charity work.” But yesterday, the syndicated daytime talk show The Doctors announced that she was joining the show as a co-host and said she will become a special correspondent on …
Olympic gold medalist, wrestler, and near-death experience survivor Rulon Gardner quit The Biggest Loser on Tuesday’s episode, although that was badly timed because he then showed up as a contestant during the cross-promotional challenge on Top Chef Masters last night. While he said on the show he was leaving for personal reasons after losing 188 …
Departing The Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels appeared in ads for GoDaddy that aired during the Super Bowl last night, as did Celebrity Apprentice winner Joan Rivers. Like most of the company’s ads that objectify women for absolutely no reason at all except to be edgy and drive traffic to its web site, the ads …
The Biggest Loser has diversity in sexual orientation among its trainers, and I’m not even talking about cast members’ suggestions that Bob Harper is gay. The NBC reality series now has two female trainers who are gay, or at the very least, not straight: Jillian Michaels, who came out as bisexual last year without actually …
The Biggest Loser finally revealed the identities of its mystery trainers last night, Cara and Brett, who were not a mystery at all, especially because Jillian Michaels said their names in an interview. Jillian is quitting the series after this season. Meanwhile, the show didn’t quite live up to its name–or did, depending upon your …
The Biggest Loser is still keeping the identities of its mystery trainers a secret, even after its first episode tonight, but reports on fitness blogs suggest they are Brett Hoebel and Cara Castronova. Lisa Johnson writes that she received an anonymous tip about the identities of the trainers, and verified that by comparing their voices …