The Australian version of “The Biggest Loser” is back and it seems people are turning off, I’m one of them and I’ll tell you why. This season is all about being fat and lonely, fat folk looking for love. The messages I’ve gleaned from the ‘uplifting’ show this season have ranged from, ‘if you’re overweight you’re never going to find someone to love you’, to ‘if a woman wants a man, she’d better be thin’.
That’s why people are tuning out, it’s not about boosting confidence, it’s all about negative messages. Twitter was a storm of complaints during the first episode and I followed the torrent with some interest. Most of us were in agreement it seems, the show has lost it. Bring back Bob and Jillian, they tended not to completely dishevel a persons sense of self in the fitness process.
