More Fattest Losers
Wifey and I have been watching the second series of Australia’s version of The Biggest Loser, and so far it’s good, harmless fun (harmless for the lazy sods sitting on the couch watching it; not so much for the overweight fatties exercising their guts out on the telly – pun intended). We already have our likes and dislikes, and although I won’t be posting about the show regularly, I’m sure I’ll talk about it occasionally here over the coming twelve weeks or so.
Let’s take a look at the contestants, trainers and host in slightly more detail:
Name: Ajay (sometimes spelt AJ) Rochester
Role: Host
Points of Interest:
1. Has a celebrity dog.
2. Is apparently a celebrity.
3. Actually has quite an amazing weight-loss story herself (despite first appearances).
Name: Bob Harper
Role: Blue Team Trainer
Points of Interest:
1. Gay.
2. Will ‘switch teams’ for Magical_M (and I’m not talking about Blue and Red Teams).
3. Has again been shipped out to Australia from America for the series.
4. Cares for everyone.
Name: Jillian Michaels
Role: Red Team Trainer
Points of Interest:
1. Spunky.
2. Hilarious!
3. Like Bob, has been shipped out from the US to film this series (despite leaving the US version of the show last year – either she likes the Aussie crowd/setting a lot more, or we offered her too much money (probably not the latter).
4. Cares for those who want to help themselves (and fair enough, too).
5. Makes me crack up whenever she dishes out the ‘tough love’ to grumbling or smartarse contestants.
Name: Michelle Bridges
Role: Red Team Co-Trainer
Points of Interest:
1. Aussie chick called in to ‘help’ (read: relieve, Australianise, etc) Jillian.
2. Sounds like she’s been a heavy smoker all her life.
3. Is a former ‘Australian Fitness Leader of the Year’.
4. Runs her own personal training business.
4. Cares for everyone.
Name: Shannan Ponton
Role: Blue Team Co-Trainer
Points of Interest:
1. Aussie dude called in to ‘help’ (read: relieve, Australianise, etc) Bob.
2. Created innovative approaches to fitness including ‘The Crunch Challenge’ (which became a fitness show on Foxtel).
3. Not to be confused with Shannon Noll.
Name: Alex
Team: Red
Age: 37
Height: 167cm
Starting Weight: 157kg
Target Weight: 95kg
Points of Interest:
1. Annoying but sweet.
2. Cries easily.
3. Was the Red Team’s biggest loser in Week 1 but they voted them off anyway.
4. Was the slowest in the Sydney Tower challenge, costing the Red Team the win.
5. When he started on the show, he needed a machine to help him sleep at night and was a borderline diabetic. Is no longer.
Name: Courtney
Team: Red
Age: 21
Height: 185cm
Starting Weight: 139kg
Target Weight: 90kg
Points of Interest:
1. Gay. (Of course it matters!)
2. Lost a mere 5-point-something kilos in the first week and should have been eliminated (but he had immunity).
3. Is a snivelling little back-stabber.
Name: Damien
Team: Blue
Age: 34
Height: 188cm
Starting Weight: 216kg
Target Weight: 110kg
Points of Interest:
1. The biggest contestant the show’s ever had.
2. The nicest contestant the show’s ever had.
3. Sings in a rock group called The Fat Elephant (or similar), and has come to be known as the band’s title.
Name: Gerard
Team: Blue
Age: 43
Height: 175cm
Starting Weight: 133kg
Target Weight: 85kg
Points of Interest:
1. Storms out of training sessions.
2. Goes on and on about how he’s the Blue Team Member who’s most at risk of being eliminated (which – if true – is because he storms out of training sessions).
3. Can be annoying to his fellow teammates.
Name: Greg
Team: Red
Age: 33
Height: 175cm
Starting Weight: 151kg
Target Weight: 90kg
Points of Interest:
1. Is a really nice guy.
2. Heavy Aussie-Greek accent.
Name: Jules
Team: Blue
Age: 34
Height: 170cm
Starting Weight: 130kg
Target Weight: 75kg
Points of Interest:
1. Quiet but cute.
Name: Kelly
Team: Blue
Age: 28
Height: 174cm
Starting Weight: 116kg
Target Weight: 70kg
Points of Interest:
1. Is a detective in the police force.
2. Injured her ankle and groin muscles in tonight’s episode.
Name: Marty
Team: Red
Age: 38
Height: 193cm
Starting Weight: 163kg
Target Weight: 95kg
Points of Interest:
1. Coach bus driver.
2. Big heart, very friendly and affectionate.
3. Jokester.
4. Always smiling.
Name: Mel
Team: Blue
Age: 24
Height: 183cm
Starting Weight: 108kg
Target Weight: 75kg
Points of Interest:
1. Smallest contestant on the series this year.
2. Used to row semi-professionally, yet still lost a rowing challenge to Marty.
Name: Michael
Team: Blue
Age: 28
Height: 192cm
Starting Weight: 165kg
Target Weight: 99kg
Points of Interest:
1. Good-natured guy.
2. Has the face and eyes of a pre-pubescent boy (if you remove the goatee).
Name: Munnalita
Team: Red
Age: 32
Height: 170cm
Starting Weight: 127kg
Target Weight: 60kg
Points of Interest:
1. Has a strange name.
2. Loves to gossip and back-stab (particularly with Courtney).
3. Looks like she might form an ‘alliance’ of sorts with Courtney and possibly Pati.
4. Imagines nastiness where it doesn’t exist (like on Michael’s face after the first competitive Weigh-In).
5. Finishes all her sentences like a question??
Name: Pati
Team: Red
Age: 26
Height: 172cm
Starting Weight: 125kg
Target Weight: 70kg
Points of Interest:
1. Talks in annoyingly hushed and child-like tones.
2. Appears to be a lovely person (but may be led astray by Courtney and Munnalita).
Name: Sam
Team: Blue
Age: 37
Height: 171cm
Starting Weight: 114kg
Target Weight: 79kg
Points of Interest:
1. Stepped out of the competition in tonight’s episode due to developing DVT during the first week.
2. Barely said a word on screen (including the to-camera interviews) until after she’d stepped out of the competition.
3. Wifey thinks Sam will look hottt when she loses her weight.
4. Seems really lovely.
Name: Sarah
Team: Red
Age: 24
Height: 170cm
Starting Weight: 150kg
Target Weight: 75kg
Points of Interest:
1. Quitter.
2. Quitty.
3. Quittish.
4. She quit.
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10 Comments:
I think I heard somewhere that she comes to Australia and not America as Australia shows so much more - in the US they only show like an hour a week and focus on her being a biatch, while here they show more of her personality. She is more of a life coach than a fitness instructor and she felt she was being misrepresented over there.
GO US (as in "us", not "USA")!
- PS - Alex was my favourite =o(
You missed two of the most interesting Points Of Interest! Namely:
- Kelly's obsession with making her ex-husband jealous (which she somewhat irrationally believes will be achieved by losing weight); and
- Munnalita's obsession with having a baby (which she somewhat irrationally believes will be achieved by losing weight).
Also - why can't a reality TV show ever have a gay participant who ISN'T a snivelling backstabbing bitch? Way to perpetuate a stereotype!
Summed up Sarah nicely. Weak as piss. Gerard is lucky he won the telly cause he won't win anything else, his little agro attacks are not making him any friends.
Alex was my favourite too. I loved it when Jillian hammered Courtney for losing the weigh in for the team. Gold.
Do you think that they have introduced Shannon and Michelle to warm us up to them because Bob and Jillian are not coming back next year?
Enny, that sounds extremely plausible. I can just imagine how they'd edit together the 'interesting' bits, without also showing her caring side or the methodology behind her 'tough love' approach.
MindlessMunkey, both excellent points, thank you! :) Although I empathise with Munnalita's fear way more than I do with Kelly's! As for your gay reality TV show star question, surely you can't be serious?? *affects mock tone* You expect TV stations to show people as REAL human beings, rather than simply stereotypes??!! C'mon, dude! We're all idiots! Stereotypes are the only types of people our simple-minded brains can identity with! *mock tone ends*
Boo, unfortunately, your supposition is correct. The idea is that this year they're 'phasing in' the Aussie trainers, with the view to reducing Bob & Jillian's appearance next year to dust. Sorry, people.
BONUS INSIDER INFO!
The "TWO BIG SURPRISES" in tonight's episode are almost-certainly guarranteed to be new contestants ... replacements for Sarah and Sam. Just my tip.
You were right Bevis.
Plus we get a token stereotypical hard nose scary lesbian to frighten Courtney.
Can't wait to see the fur fly.
Wow, Bob and Jillian's departure came about even earlier than I expected. As soon as the ad last week said, "Bob and Jillian hit the house with a bombshell / devastating news" (or whatever it said), I knew they were going to be heading out the door sooner rather than later.
I guess the next time we'll see them will be at the finale ... in a live cross - although a surprise reappearance in person would be nice (IF extremely costly for the producers)!
Show me an article where Bob has actually come out and said he's gay and I might believe you.
But bless you for saying he'd switch teams for me.
I'm very disappointed that Bob and Jillian left so early. I don't mind Michelle or Shannan, although I think he sounds eerily similar to Shannon Noll which puts me off somewhat.
And I'm glad that nay-sayer Gerard's gone. Talk about Mr-Glass-Is-Bloody-Empty! Next, I want that whingy, whiny Munnalita outta there. She annoys me almost as much as Ruth did.
Oh and hello! Sorry I haven't been visiting much of late... computer's been on the fritz.
Hello to you, too.
Yes, Munnalita is EXTREMELY irritating! I also think Laura's crying and monotone talking is very frustrating. And Courtney is just a really horrible person.
I quite like Marty and want the best for Greg, but otherwise the Red Team can go hang.
The Blue Team (what's left of them!) has been by far nicer people.
I can't believe you think Bob's straight. Talk about denial!
:)
just wondering if any of u know if jillian is a lesbien
YOUR TOTALLY RIGHT ABOUT BOB BEING GAY LIKE HELL YA I BET HE'S JUST DENYING HE HAD A REALLY STRONG ISSUE WITH SOME GUYS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. CRAP I WONDER IF HE PAYS THEM BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT HE HAD AN ISSUE WITH KIM THEN HE WOULDN'T BE GAY OR PERHAPS KIM IS A LESO.
FAR OUT WHAT THE F ARE YOU SAYING LIKE HELL NO JILLIAN AIN'T A LESO IF I FOUND OUT SHE WAS I WOULD KILL MY SELF I WOULDN'T LET HER BE A LESO BEST PERSON WHO HASN'T SINNED(OR MAYBE ONCE OR TWICE BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER).
AND AS FOR SHANNAN BY BIG DREAM CRUSH HELL YA. INFO IF ANY HELP:
I SAW HIM IN PERSONAL I GOT HIS AUTOGRAPH AND A PHOTO FAR OUT BRUSSEL SPROUT HE HIS REALLY HOT.
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