{"id":1118,"date":"2008-08-28T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/biggest-loser-6-ed-brantley\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T18:56:12","slug":"biggest-loser-6-ed-brantley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/biggest-loser-6-ed-brantley\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Loser 6: Ed Brantley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Brantley will be on the orange team for <a title=\"biggest loser 6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/category\/biggest-loser-season-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biggest Loser: Families<\/a>, with his wife <a title=\"heba salama\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/biggest-loser-6-heba-salama\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heba Salama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch <a title=\"ed biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/ed-brantley-interview-at-biggest-loser-6-finale\/\" target=\"_self\">Ed&#8217;s Finale Interview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ed brantley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ed.jpg\" alt=\"ed brantley\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ed-brantley-makeover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3196\" title=\"ed-brantley-makeover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ed-brantley-makeover-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age<\/strong> 31<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hometown<\/strong> Raleigh, NC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Occupation<\/strong> Chef<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest Loser: Families teammate<\/strong> Heba Salama, Wife<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nTeam Color<\/strong> Orange<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainer<\/strong> <a title=\"bob harper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Bob_Harper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Harper<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Weight<\/strong> 335<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finale Weight<\/strong> 196<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Loss<\/strong> -139<\/p>\n<p><strong>Percent Lost <\/strong>41.49<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><strong>Quotes<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna throw up all over this place.&#8221; &#8211; Week 1<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Vicky&#8217;s crazy, man! She&#8217;ll claw your friggen eyes out!&#8221; &#8211; Week 9<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Heba had already spent that money as soon as it touched my hands.&#8221; &#8211; Week 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Biggest_Loser_Club\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3801\" title=\"ed-brantley-finale\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ed-brantley-finale-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Factoids<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health screening found several problems including pre-diabetic and metabolic syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Won Week 2 Competition, shared phone call home prize with Red Team<\/li>\n<li>Won Week 3 Competition; Won Week 3 Temptation for a Jayco RV<\/li>\n<li>Zero-pound weight loss Week 4; Eliminated<\/li>\n<li>Won the Week 8 competition to return to campus<\/li>\n<li>America chose Ed over Heba to compete as the third finalist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"ed brantley biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/eds-departure\/\" target=\"_self\">Ed&#8217;s Departure<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"biggest loser families\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/biggest-loser--families-week-3-bonus-footage\/\" target=\"_self\">Week 3 Bonus Footage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"heba and ed biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/biggest-loser-6---meet-heba-and-ed---orange-team\/\" target=\"_self\">Meet Heba and Ed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ed biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/eds-struggle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed&#8217;s Struggle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"heba and ed biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/biggest-loser-6---casting-video-3\/\" target=\"_self\">Heba and Ed Casting Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Eliminated Week 4 &#8211; Hear the <a title=\"ed brantley biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/interview-with-ed-brantley-eliminated-biggest-loser-week-4\/\" target=\"_self\">Interview<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Returned <a title=\"biggest loser recap\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/bernies-biggest-loser-episode-8-recap\/\" target=\"_self\">Episode 8<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"heba and ed biggest loser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/interview-with-biggest-losers-heba-salama-and-ed-brantley\/\" target=\"_self\">Heba and Ed&#8217;s very first interview.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other spellings: Edd, Eddy, Eddie, Edward, Ted, Brantly, Brant, Brantle, Brandly, Brandtly<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss any of the news, interviews or recaps from Biggest Loser: Families. Sign-up for the <a title=\"biggest loser newsletter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biggest Loser Updates Newsletter<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Brantley will be on the orange team for Biggest Loser: Families, with his wife Heba Salama. Watch Ed&#8217;s Finale Interview Age 31 Hometown Raleigh, NC Occupation Chef Biggest Loser: Families teammate Heba Salama, Wife Team Color Orange Trainer Bob &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/biggest-loser-6-ed-brantley\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[500,3677,89,3688],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-biggest-loser-6","tag-diet-tv","tag-ed-brantley","tag-expired"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}