Work Out

Surprising news emerged yesterday, almost five years after the death of Work Out cast member Doug Blasdell: He inspired a character on Desperate Housewives, as he was the trainer of its creator, Marc Cherry, and actually died at Cherry’s house from salmonella poisoning. Doug died in 2007 and all we learned back then was that… continue reading

Jackie Warner is about to return to Bravo as a star of a reality series, Thintervention, but it is not one about her life, because she says she was basically burned by the editing on her first series, Work Out. In an extended interview with After Ellen, Jackie said “I’m OK watching Work Out again”… continue reading

Work Out star Jackie Warner is getting a new reality series on Bravo, which may be a surprise considering how reviled Jackie was when her show ended well over a year ago. During the series’ contrived and set-up final season, Jackie made off-camera comments about a breast cancer survivor’s fake breasts, and as part of… continue reading

Work Out‘s workplace drama looks increasingly contrived this season, and there’s good reason for that: At least one of the show’s trainers was cast by producers, not hired by Jackie “I’m fond of emotionally manipulating people and then blaming them because I have no self-awareness” Warner. One of SkySport’s newest trainers, Greg Plitt, did a… continue reading

A week before her new workout DVD comes out, Jackie Warner’s increasingly annoying behavior on Work Out has apparently cost her a sponsor. But she has placed the blame for criticism she’s received on Bravo and the editing of the show, which she says is not “a reflection of what I or SkySport represents.” Late… continue reading

The few episodes of Work Out that have aired so far this season have mostly focused on Jackie Warner’s conflict with her trainers. Because the show is a nonfiction workplace drama, and because that workplace is open to the public, the gym’s web site offers behind-the-scenes details–and a spoiler about what happens to one of… continue reading

A producer has sued his former agent, claiming that she stole the idea for Bravo’s Work Out from him. In late December, David Russo filed suite “for $5 million, claiming … that Amy Shpall, a former UTA agent who is an executive producer on ‘Work Out,’ was privy to his concept for a reality show… continue reading

Bravo’s promotion of Work Out‘s most recent episode, which featured trainer Doug Blasdell’s death, may have been sensational, but it’s nothing compared to what the network is doing now. On Wednesday, Bravo issued a press release that shouted, “BRAVO’S ‘WORK OUT’ DEDICATION EPISODE DELIVERS IN THE RATINGS.” It says Tuesday’s episode “delivered 962,000 million total… continue reading

Three weeks ago, an AP story said that Work Out trainer Doug Blasdell’s death would be addressed in the show’s fourth episode. Instead, that aired last night, the Bravo docudrama’s seventh episode. Trainer Brian Peeler tells After Elton about the chronology of Doug’s illness, saying that he ‘knew Doug was sick shortly after we finished… continue reading

Tuesday night’s episode of Bravo’s Work Out will apparently include the death of trainer Doug Blasdell, even though it occurred less than two months after another scene in the episode, when Jackie tells the staff that he’s in a coma. “The first thing that crossed my mind was how do we deal with Doug’s death,”… continue reading

Doug Blasdell, one of the trainers on Bravo’s Work Out, died Monday. He “was suddenly hospitalized over this weekend and died unexpectedly” on Jan. 22, AfterElton.com reports. He was 44. Jody Watley, who was trained by Doug on the show, wrote in her blog (via Towleroad’s discussion of Doug’s death), that Doug was “undergoing chemo… continue reading