Reality Show The Biggest Loser Target of Doping Probe
This week, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that they have opened an inquiry into NBC reality series The Biggest Loser over possible illegal drug use on set.
Kristin Davis Is a Star Again
Charlotte York MacDougal Goldenblatt herself has the lead in a new TV movie. Also today: The Biggest Loseer loses, 2 Broke Girls are rich, Julia Stiles gets a plum role, and Lizzy Caplan shows up.
How Did Olympic Wrestler Rulon Gardner End Up on NBC's Biggest Loser?
In the year 2000, Rulon Gardner won the Olympic gold as a 286-pound class Greco-Roman wrestler. Over ten years later, he weighs in at 474 pounds and is currently pegged to win a reality weight-loss show. How did this happen?
How to Make Every New Year's Resolution Stick for Good
Every January 1, everyone wakes up with the best intentions of improving themselves and living a better life. By March 12, all those ideals are out the window. Not this year! Here's how to make your resolution last all year.
Fat Americans Only Want to Watch Shows About Fat People
All Americans are fat. Now TV is cashing in with shows like The Biggest Loser, Thintervention, and Celebrity Fit Club, because fat Americans only want to watch shows about people losing weight. It's like exercising without leaving the couch!
Jillian Michaels Reminds Little Girls the Importance of Being Thin and Pretty
On The Bonnie Hunt Show today, Biggest Loser star Jillian Michaels discussed her weight/nose issues as a child. Bonnie Hunt sees her story as an inspiration for young girls, even though it included an elective surgery.
Bob and Jillian Freak Out on Last Night's Biggest Loser
There are few things more entertaining on The Biggest Loser than when one of the trainers loses their patience and freaks out. Last night we were lucky enough to experience both Bob and Jillian in their beefed-up rage.
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
Today at Gawker.TV, a Biggest Loser takes a fall, Today works out alongside some canine friends, Jimmy Fallon may be the next host of The Tonight Show, George Lopez weighs in, and what Simon Cowell means to Idol.
Let's All Laugh at the Loser Who's Afraid of Water
Last night's Biggest Loser featured a challenge that took place over water. Small problem: Maria is afraid of water and gets panic attacks. Her tumble is laughable, but actually ends with a trip to the hospital. Bring on the blood!
A Weighty Proposal on Tonight's Biggest Loser Finale
Things took a turn from fat-and-bulging bodies to a young-and-budding romance when two Biggest Loser contestants got engaged during tonight's season finale.
How Can We Lose Some Weight?
We as Americans are not in the shape we once (1942) were. Is it possible to "lose" the accumulated weight of decades of Cap'n Crunch, Nestle Quik, and Quarter Pounders? America's willing to give it a shot. With crazy schemes.
The Magazine of the Future Is Here
• How do you keep your magazine afloat? Put ads on the cover! [NYT]
• NBC is renewing 30 Rock, The Office, and The Biggest Loser. [AP]
• Music sales fell by about 7 percent last year. [NYT]
• The head of Hearst Magazines International is retiring. [NYP]
• Clear Channel is cutting $400 million in costs. [NYP]
• The…
Alison Sweeney's Doomsday Baby Finally Arrives A Month Late
The horrendous Dec. 4 news cycle better known as Pop Culture Doomsday was one Ellen prank shy of an honorary celebrity mom: Alison Sweeney, the Biggest Loser host who finally came around late Monday.
'Biggest Loser' Contestant's Flour-Flinging Rampage Inspires Defamer Joke-Off
Hard to believe The Biggest Loser is already upon us—it feels like the finale was just a couple weeks ago. (It was? Oh.) Prepare for some firsts, including the heaviest, oldest, and now abusiest contestants!
'Ellen' Guest Goes Into Labor, Welcomes First Baby of the Apocalypse: UPDATE
No catastrophic cultural implosion is complete without a Doomsday Baby, and we think we might have gotten ours when pregnanter-than-pregnant Biggest Loser host Alison Sweeney went into labor during today's taping of Ellen. Even Defamer's office of Fact-Checking and Devil's Advocacy seems to stand by the veracity of…
Counterintuitive Horror Film Wants You to Root For Survival of Reality-Star Cast
We're not sure if this amounts to its own chapter in the End of Ideas canon or is actually a visionary effort deserving a new appellation altogether, but one thing appears to be certain: The Z-list thriller-in-the-making Reality Horror Night will not be for the faint of heart.
Reading While, About, And To Stop Eating
The Food Network is starting a magazine with Hearst. It will be poetically named Food Network Magazine, and it will feature Food Network people and Food Network food. Appropriately, NBC's weight loss spectacle The Biggest Loser is also cranking out new books and promotions for Rodale magazines Prevention and Men's…
