The Biggest Loser (Season 2)
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The Biggest Loser is the second season of the NBC
competitive reality television
series entitled The Biggest Loser. The second season premiered on September 13, 2005, and like season one
features overweight
contestants who compete by trying to lose the most weight. The show is hosted by comedian
Caroline Rhea
, with Bob Harper
and Jillian Michaels
joining as the
two personal trainers.
The contestants were divided into two teams: men in red and women in blue, with each team assigned to their own personal trainer of the opposite sex. Each week, the team which had the lowest percentage of total weight-loss was required to vote out one member of their own team.
The show concluded November 29, 2005, when Matt was declared "The Biggest Loser", winning $250,000. Seth was awarded $50,000 for his second place finish, and Suzy was awarded $25,000 for third. Of the non-finalists, Pete had lost the highest percentage of weight and received the $100,000 prize.
Teams
Game
Winners
BMI
of The Biggest Loser in America, and also flew to Australia, along with Seth, to make an appearance on the first season of the Australian version of the show.
, a special episode was shown revisiting past contestants to see if they kept the weight off. Only Pete was weighed, but Matt and Suzy appeared in a video clip. Matt and Suzy are now married and have two children.
Although, like everyone else featured except Season One's Andrea, most had gained weight since his finale; Pete was the only one to take his shirt off to show that he had kept up his muscular tone. Weighing in at 241 pounds, he had gained 25 pounds since the end of Season Two.
NBC has announced that there will be another "Did They Keep The Weight Off" special, which will feature more than 40 Contestants from all 7 seasons so far. Those confirmed to appear in the episode include: Finalists Matt and Suzy, and eliminated contestants Jeff and Pete. There may be more, however these have been the only ones to be confirmed to appear.
NBC
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competitive reality television
Reality television
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series entitled The Biggest Loser. The second season premiered on September 13, 2005, and like season one
The Biggest Loser (Season 1)
The Biggest Loser is the first season of the NBC reality television series entitled The Biggest Loser, which premiered on October 19, 2004. The show features overweight contestants competing to lose the largest percentage of their body weight and receive the title of 'Biggest Loser,' along with a...
features overweight
Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems...
contestants who compete by trying to lose the most weight. The show is hosted by comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
Caroline Rhea
Caroline Rhea
Caroline Gilchrist Rhea is a Canadian stand-up comedian and actress who was the original host of the reality television show The Biggest Loser on NBC until she was replaced by Alison Sweeney after the end of the third season...
, with Bob Harper
Bob Harper (personal trainer)
Robert "Bob" Harper is a personal trainer, who appears on the television series The Biggest Loser .- Career :Harper has worked as a personal trainer for celebrity clients, including Jennifer Jason Leigh...
and Jillian Michaels
Jillian Michaels (personal trainer)
Jillian Michaels is a celebrity personal trainer, reality show personality, direct-response television pitchwoman, and entrepreneur from Los Angeles, California...
joining as the
two personal trainers.
The contestants were divided into two teams: men in red and women in blue, with each team assigned to their own personal trainer of the opposite sex. Each week, the team which had the lowest percentage of total weight-loss was required to vote out one member of their own team.
The show concluded November 29, 2005, when Matt was declared "The Biggest Loser", winning $250,000. Seth was awarded $50,000 for his second place finish, and Suzy was awarded $25,000 for third. Of the non-finalists, Pete had lost the highest percentage of weight and received the $100,000 prize.
Season Highlights
- The contestants were divided into male and female teams with trainers of the opposite sex.
- Season 2 introduced immunity for the contestant who lost the most weight on the losing team.
- Total percentage weight-loss was used to determine the winning team each week (as opposed to number of pounds lost used in Season 1).
- In episode 7, the blue and red teams were disbanded, and four new teams of couples were formed. Three of the teams consisted of one man and one woman, and one team consisted of two men.
- In episode 9, the teams of two were disbanded, and each contestant had to compete as an individual.
Contestants
| Name | Age | Height | Starting BMI |
Ending BMI |
Starting Weight |
Week | Weight Lost |
Percentage Lost |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||||||
| Matt Hoover | 28 | 5'10" | 48.6 | 26.1 | 339 | 311 | 304 | 300 | 290 | 279 | 279 | 262 | 254 | 266 | 240 | 230 | 182 | 157 | 46.31% |
| Seth Word | 24 | 6'1" | 38.4 | 22.2 | 291 | 270 | 262 | 258 | 250 | 243 | 233 | 233 | 232 | 219 | 211 | 204 | 168 | 123 | 42.27% |
| Suzy Preston | 28 | 5'4" | 39.0 | 22.7 | 227 | 207 | 205 | 201 | 196 | 191 | 186 | 182 | 180 | 170 | 166 | 161 | 132 | 95 | 41.85% |
| Andrea Overstreet | 28 | 5'5" | 36.6 | 24.1 | 220 | 209 | 204 | 202 | 198 | 193 | 191 | 185 | 184 | 179 | 176 | 173 | 145 | 75 | 34.09% |
| Jeff Levine | 43 | 6'1" | 48.8 | 28.6 | 370 | 352 | 344 | 340 | 326 | 316 | 305 | 294 | 284 | 270 | 267 | 217 | 153 | 41.35% | |
| Shannon Mullen | 29 | 5'3" | 45.5 | 26.4 | 257 | 242 | 240 | 236 | 229 | 221 | 218 | 212 | 208 | 200 | 149 | 108 | 42.02% | ||
| Mark Y. | 36 | 5'11" | 49.9 | 26.9 | 358 | 335 | 325 | 318 | 308 | 291 | 287 | 273 | 271 | 193 | 165 | 46.09% | |||
| Pete Thomas | 36 | 6'5" | 47.5 | 25.6 | 401 | 379 | 371 | 367 | 350 | 338 | 325 | 318 | 216 | 185 | 46.13% | ||||
| Jen Kern | 24 | 5'7" | 41.8 | 27.6 | 267 | 248 | 244 | 244 | 234 | 224 | 221 | 176 | 91 | 34.08% | |||||
| Suzanne Mendonca | 30 | 5'6" | 37.0 | 22.9 | 229 | 213 | 209 | 206 | 199 | 191 | 142 | 87 | 37.99% | ||||||
| Ryan Kelly | 26 | 5'7" | 35.2 | 23.0 | 225 | 207 | 205 | 200 | 195 | 147 | 78 | 34.67% | |||||||
| Nick Gaza | 40 | 5'9" | 49.6 | X | 346 | 318 | 308 | 305 | did not attend | ||||||||||
| Kathryn Murphy | 28 | 5'5" | 36.1 | 28.6 | 217 | 202 | 201 | 201 | 16 | 7.37% | |||||||||
| Ruben Hernadez | 37 | 6'3" | 34.7 | 24.6 | 278 | 261 | 193 | 85 | 29.14% | ||||||||||
Teams
- Member of Bob's team
- Member of Jillian's team
Game
- Last person eliminated before finale
Winners
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100,000 Winner (among the eliminated contestants)
BMI
- Normal (18.5 - 24.9 BMI)
- Overweight (25 - 29.9 BMI)
- Obese Class I (30 - 34.9 BMI)
- Obese Class II (35 - 39.9 BMI)
- Obese Class III (greater than 40 BMI)
Weight Loss History
| Name | Week | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
| Matthew | ||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||
| Seth | ||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||
| Suzy | ||||||||||||
| Andrea | ||||||||||||
| Jeff | ||||||||||||
| -50 | ||||||||||||
| Shannon | ||||||||||||
| -51 | ||||||||||||
| Mark | ||||||||||||
| -78 | ||||||||||||
| Pete | ||||||||||||
| -102 | ||||||||||||
| Jen | ||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||
| -42 | ||||||||||||
| Suzanne | ||||||||||||
| -49 | ||||||||||||
| Ryan | ||||||||||||
| -48 | ||||||||||||
| Nick | ||||||||||||
| -16 | ||||||||||||
| Kathryn | ||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||
| Ruben | ||||||||||||
| -64 | ||||||||||||
Elimination Voting History
| Name | |Final | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliminated | Ruben | Kathryn | Nick | Ryan | Suzanne | Jen | Pete | Mark | Shannon | Jeff | Andrea | |
| Matt | Ruben | X | Nick | X | X | X | Pete | Mark | Shannon | Jeff | Andrea | Biggest Loser |
| Seth | ? | X | Nick | X | X | X | Jeff | Mark | Shannon | ? | Andrea | Finalist (X) |
| Suzy | X | Kathryn | X | Shannon | Suzanne | Jen | Jeff | Mark | Shannon | Jeff | X | Finalist (X) |
| Andrea | X | Kathryn | X | Shannon | Suzanne | Jen | Pete | X | X | X | X | |
| Jeff | Ruben | X | Seth | X | X | X | X | Andrea | Andrea | X | Eliminated Week 10 | |
| Shannon | X | Kathryn | X | Ryan | Suzanne | Jen | Pete | Mark | X | Eliminated Week 9 | ||
| Mark | Ruben | X | Nick | X | X | X | Pete | X | Eliminated Week 8 | |||
| Pete | ? | X | Nick | X | X | X | X | Eliminated Week 7 | ||||
| Jen | X | ? | X | Ryan | ? | Andrea | Eliminated Week 6 | |||||
| Suzanne | X | Kathryn | X | Ryan | Shannon | Eliminated Week 5 | ||||||
| Ryan | X | ? | X | Shannon | Eliminated Week 4 | |||||||
| Nick | Ruben | X | Seth | Eliminated Week 3 | ||||||||
| Kathryn | X | Jen | Eliminated Week 2 | |||||||||
| Ruben | Jeff | Eliminated Week 1 | ||||||||||
- Immunity
- Below yellow line, unable to vote
- Not in elimination, unable to vote
- Vote not revealed
- Eliminated or not in house
- Valid vote cast
After the show
Matt and Suzy later appeared on season threeThe Biggest Loser (Season 3)
The Biggest Loser is the third season of the NBC reality television series entitled The Biggest Loser. The third season premiered on September 20, 2006 with fifty overweight contestants , each competing to lose the most weight...
of The Biggest Loser in America, and also flew to Australia, along with Seth, to make an appearance on the first season of the Australian version of the show.
Did They Keep the Weight Off?
Prior to the start of season fourThe Biggest Loser (Season 4)
The Biggest Loser is the fourth season of the NBC reality television series entitled The Biggest Loser. The fourth season premiered on September 11, 2007 with 18 overweight contestants in a weight loss competition for an ultimate prize of $250,000...
, a special episode was shown revisiting past contestants to see if they kept the weight off. Only Pete was weighed, but Matt and Suzy appeared in a video clip. Matt and Suzy are now married and have two children.
Although, like everyone else featured except Season One's Andrea, most had gained weight since his finale; Pete was the only one to take his shirt off to show that he had kept up his muscular tone. Weighing in at 241 pounds, he had gained 25 pounds since the end of Season Two.
NBC has announced that there will be another "Did They Keep The Weight Off" special, which will feature more than 40 Contestants from all 7 seasons so far. Those confirmed to appear in the episode include: Finalists Matt and Suzy, and eliminated contestants Jeff and Pete. There may be more, however these have been the only ones to be confirmed to appear.