‘Biggest Loser’: Serve up some shock!
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Is America ready for a woman to finally win ‘The Biggest Loser?’
‘Cause that’s who’s calling the shots.
It was ladies night this week as Ali and Kelly -- Kelly!! -- dropped big enough numbers to land the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in the final leg of this race for $250,000 and the title of ‘The Biggest Loser.’ The last two male contestants -- Mark and Roger -- are competing for the third spot. The ladies assumed they’d control the vote to decide who that third spot would go to, but they had a rude awakening: The public will do the voting at nbc.com/thebiggestloser. (The live finale is Tuesday, April 15).
A vote for the already rail-thin Mark could boost the chance of a win by one of the women, as Roger still has more weight to lose. But absolutely anything is possible with these four fierce competitors.
Now in its 5th season, the NBC reality show has never seen a woman win it all. That has led critics to charge that the show unfairly favors beefy, athletic guys who can win the physically demanding challenges that grant immunity as well as drop massive amounts of weight. A win by a woman would help counter such talk that women just can’t lose weight like men.
It certainly looked like it was going to be business as usual this season, as the men banded together and positioned themselves to pick off their female counterparts, one by one.
But the return of Ali -- who had been booted off the show earlier in the season as part of a strategic maneuver -- completely changed the metabolism of the game.
Turns out, she drops weight like a boy, and has also helped reinvigorate the only other surviving female, Kelly, to drop it too.
‘I’ve waited five years to see a woman win this thing,’ Jillian said during Tuesday night’s show. Perhaps the trainer only has a week to go.
What do you think? Is Jillian going to wait some more? (And what about Kelly? Could the seeming straggler continue to fly under the radar and walk away with it?) Or will Bob and the boys ultimately take it away?
-- Rene Lynch
Photo credit: Fiona-Lee Quimby
