Biggest Loser aka Biggest LIAR!!

[Wahine]

I have to saw that I gave up on television and the media a long time ago and here's part of why...

I was involved in a made for TV athletic event that was 7 separate events with a point system etc. All of the athletes were hand picked for the show based on an athletic profile but I'm sure also looks, lifestyle. They wanted to make the people involved interesting. So they had us all do individual interviews and fill out forms with information about ourselves. When the show finally came out they commentators took a bunch of my background information and twisted it to make it more extreme and interesting to the public. The even added completely false stuff. In addition, I was injured during the first event and had to get 17 stitches, according to the announcers I was nearly dead and had to get 35 stitches. They twisted the interviews around to make people fit into certain stereotypes... one girl was type cast as the footloose and fancy free climber living out of her RV. In reality she was b*tchy, grumpy and a very poor sport.

Producers do all kinds of cr@p to get ratings and viewers. I am not at all surprised by the falsifications.

I don't watch TV anymore for news or anything "real". I watch the occasional episode of The Office for a good laugh. That's all it is... fictional entertainment, doesn't matter what program you're talking about.

[Crankin]

I have seen bits of the show, mostly because it is on opposite my favorite show (NCIS). Now, I have class on Tuesday nights, so I rarely get home before it's over. But I did see the bit about them "finishing" the marathon. And I remember distinctly saying to my husband that something seemed funny about that time.
And anyone who says they are "religious" when they are discussing something like this (a lie) makes me well, feel not very charitable.