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IDIOT BOX: BIGGEST LOSER PRODUCERS HATE SHORT PEOPLE

 

There are only two more episodes left in this season of Biggest Loser, and I’m pulling for Hollie—but she probably won’t win. I’m thinking Bill is going to rebound and take it. Still, something to keep in mind: as we learned last night, a good portion of the members of the Biggest Loser Hall of Fame are former athletes. Hollie’s one, too, and a big (as in tall) girl. Pretty soon she’ll hit her stride and that muscle memory will kick in and it won’t be weight she’s losing, but muscles she’s gaining. She’s going to look great.

Can we talk for a second, though, about last night’s challenge, where the contestants (most of whom, Hollie and Neil and poor, poor Isabeau excepted, are totally short) had to jump on trampolines and punch a punching bag suspended above them? The key: the person with the lowest hits at the end of each round (I think it was a minute or two) was out, and the bags were raised up higher. Now, it would have been a good challenge if each contestant was swatting at a punching bag separate and individually mobile from the others’, so as to allow for differences in height—you know, how they go on percentages of body weight loss instead of actual pounds. To keep things fair. However, the bags were all suspended from the same I bar, so of course 50-foot-woman Hollie won! Girl’s got arms for days!

Don’t get me wrong: I’ve loved Hollie/black team from the start. But really, it was just so sad watching Bill:

P.S. Fremont building spotted in background during a commercial for Life. Too bad no one watches that show.

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