“The Biggest Loser” has been getting bigger and bigger and Season 9 is the biggest ever! 22 new incredibly obese contestants step onto the Biggest Loser ranch with Bob and Jillian in an effort to transform their lives from fat to fit. This season features the largest contestant ever: Michael Ventrella, with a starting weight of 526 lbs; the near half ton team of John and James Crutchfield weighing in at 969 combined pounds and Ann Arbor, Michigan natives Darrell and Andrea Hough at 711 combined pounds. The transformations this season promise to be utterly amazing.

Another Detroit Open Casting Call has come and gone and here are a few of my basic observations.
Don’t be a drag
The more upbeat you are the better your chances.  Not obnoxious but upbeat.  Have plenty of energy.  Want to be here.  We had three casting directors in Detroit and they took about 5-7 minutes per [...]

Check out this interview that Jessica Nunez of Mlive.com did with Helen Phillips, Ron Morelli and Carla Triplett. Michigan rocks! Enjoy.
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Talk to you soon and remember,
There’s A Winner Within You!

If you watched last nights live finale’ of The Biggest Loser on NBC you know that Helen Phillips, a 48 year old retired retail manager and mother of two took home the prize as The Biggest Loser by dropping an incredible 54% of her body weight.
The most incredible part in her story is her training [...]

The contestants come back to California to run a Marathon and Weigh in. Now America will vote for which one of the Morelli’s should be a finalist.
Also have a listen as I explain some of the crazy things that happen that last week before the finale.
Here is who’s left:
Helen Phillips – Finalist
Tara Costa – [...]

This is the final week on the ranch for the contestants and what we don’t see is how very very hard they worked out for the opportunity to land in the final four. In the end Filipe did not make the cut gets sent home.
I had a chance to speak with Filipe Fa of [...]

As the Biggest Loser winds its way to an awesome finale we are in week number 16. There is a smaller film ‘crew’ on campus and yet there is still a two hour show to produce. That means you should begin to see more of what the contestants are really like.
After a [...]

If you did not know already, The Biggest Loser is a reality game show and big money is on the line.  At last weeks elimination the Blue team cousins of Sione and Felipe Fa were in conflict with the Father-Son Brown team of Mike and Ron Morelli. Ron did not pull any punches this week [...]

Ally is having her baby, Alli and Michele come visit the ranch along with 3 other special guests. Watch and check out John’s blog.
Talk to You Soon and Remember,
There’s A Winner Within You!

As I predicted, the teams are being changed around again. Sweet!  Watch and check out John’s blog.
Talk to You Soon and Remember,
There’s A Winner Within You!