Now that Daris George‘s mother is gone, he is going to have the opportunity to really grow up and shine. You can see just how much his mother meant to him, but with her being eliminated he will have to face the rest of his journey alone. (more…)
Eliminated last week was Miggy Cancel, scoring O’Neal Hampton a spot on the blue team with his daughter. The two of them seem inseparable and to really need each other on the ranch.
Alison tells the contestants that this week is “work week.” This means that each contestant will be working a full-time, 40-hour job this week. Each team will be transported to downtown Los Angeles for one week to help with local food banks and Feeding America. Not only does this take away from precious workout time, but the gym will also go from being open 24 hours a day to only open from 6am-7:30pm. (more…)
Well after a long dry spell without The Biggest Loser, it’s finally time to find out who will be eliminated from week six, either Cheryl George or Darrell Hough. Unfortunately Darrell dropped the torch and was eliminated from the game.
Week six and the contestants are headed to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado! It sounds like fun and games, but they have to remember that at the end of the week there is still that dreaded weigh-in. To make matters worse, Alison tells them that not only are they competing as individuals this week, but there is also a double elimination. Whichever player loses the lowest percentage of weight will fall below a red line and automatically be sent home, and two other players will fall below the normal yellow line.
The contestants meet with many inspiring athletes, including J.R. Celski, who assist them through workouts all week, as well as challenges. The pop challenge consists of the players sliding side to side on slide boards 500 times. The top three winners get advantages in this week’s main challenge. Sam Poueu came in first, Melissa Morgan second, and Sunshine Hampton third. Their advantages were used in the main challenge, where each player had to run laps, and for each completed lap they got the opportunity to hit their opponent’s target. Once a player had been targeted five times, they were eliminated from the game. O’Neal Hampton was the last player standing and therefore won immunity.
Last chance workout was intense as the players worked with pairs figure skater, Rockne Brubaker, back in L.A. The weigh-in was intense as each player weighed in alone. Melissa Morgan fell below the red line after gaining one pound, and she was sent home immediately, while Darryl Hough and Cheryl George fell below the yellow line. For the first time this season, these two players are put through an elimination challenge to decide who will be eliminated. Wouldn’t be Biggest Loser style if they didn’t end the episode with a “to be continued…”. Not only are we left in suspense for this week, but Biggest Loser will not return until after the Winter Olympics on Tuesday, March 2.
It’s a dramatic start for week five at the Biggest Loser. The episode opens up with a frantic call from the medical trainer, Sandy. He calls production to let them know that Miggy is being sent to the hospital due to abdominal pain.
Then, it’s finally time for the yellow and blue teams to come back to the ranch! The blue team drops an impressive 63 pounds, while the yellow team drops an astounding 76 pounds. The yellow team secures a spot back on the ranch to compete with the other contestants for the grand prize of $250,000. They also gain immunity and this week’s only vote at elimination. (more…)
Week three on the ranch! The cameras go home to visit with the blue team and yellow team as they prepare to come back to the ranch to weigh-in in just two weeks!
Week two on the Biggest Loser ranch is notoriously difficult for the contestants. After losing huge numbers the first week, it seems to be very hard to lose another big number a second week in a row. Bob and Jillian have their work cut out for them, but they obviously know what they’re doing. The trainers dig in to the personal lives of these contestants in order to bring any issues to the surface so that the players can get past them and become more successful in their weight loss.
So a new season of The Biggest Loser… season nine seems to truly be the largest group yet! We meet the contestants who have all weighed in at home in front of their families, friends, neighbors, communities, and complete strangers! There are five contestants weighing in at more than 400 pounds, and one contestant weighing in at 526 pounds, Michael Ventrella.
As each contestant tells us about themselves, you hear similar stories to previous seasons. The most common story being that it’s hard being overweight, not having a significant other, and just wanting love and happiness. (more…)
The contestants were sent home last week for the final push to lose weight for finale. This is an extremely difficult time for the contestants. There is a lot of pressure to succeed and to keep losing weight and it just gets hard. When you go home real life hits. You now have responsibilities and cannot focus on solely yourself.
This final four seemed to take all of the challenges of home head on. They confronted issues of their past and continued to strive for success. The thing I like most about seeing the contestants at home is that we get to see them in a more personal setting, we get to see how they really are.
The contestants got the traditional visits from the trainers and were able to deal with some issues. The contestants are finally realizing that they are new people. And I love seeing that. They have changed, and being around family and friends continues to enforce that. (more…)
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