[CyberTOPS] Biggest Loser Drug Scandal OT

[George Hughes, Jr.]

      Biggest Loser Drug Scandal



      The Biggest Loserbs kick-arse trainer, Jillian Michaels, says that a
blow-up she had with contestant Filipe Fa last season got so bad that it
resulted in an internal drug investigation. bFilipe said, bI think Jillian
is giving people drugs,bb Michaels tells TV Guide Magazine, with the
unspecified drugs in question meant to help the members of her team lose
weight faster. bWe had an entire bKenneth Starrb investigation. Because
the minute someone makes that claim, you have to. They didnbt shut down
production, but it took a week. I was so furious, so disgusted. I felt so
betrayed.b

      According to both Michaels and Fa, the problem started when the NBC show
pulled a switch during week eight and forced contestants to change trainers.
Fa and his cousin, Sione Fa, had been working with trainer Bob Harper; now
they would train with Michaels. bFilipe didnbt want to train with me,b
says Michaels.

      What aired on television was the big argument they had after Michaels,
who heard the drug accusation off camera, refused to do a one-on-one workout
with Fa during a team session. Says Michaels, bWhen he said, bYou didnbt
train me,b I said, bYoubre dang right I didnbt train you!b I
literally couldnbt speak to him.b

      Fa says he never made the accusation. bWe had some issues, obviously,
with us switching teams," he says. "There was never an accusation about her
giving drugs.b

      Wrong, says executive producer Mark Koops, who heard the accusation from
the camera crews who follow the contestants. bThe accusation came from
Filipe,b he confirms.

      Koops says the contestants are blood and urine-tested before and during
the competition, mainly to make sure their systems stay in balance as they
work out and lose weight, but also to insure overall fairness. The only pills
contestants are allowed are multi-vitamins and caffeine pills to help them
wake up and get through the day. Koops says those pills are only dispensed by
the showbs team of medical professionals, not the trainers.

      So when Fabs drug charge came to his attention, Koops informed the
players that the show would be bringing in a team of investigators bto make
sure nothing untoward was happening.b

      Nothing was. Fa says he and Michaels bsmoothed things outb before he
was voted off the show. Michaels says the incident has made her a better,
stronger trainer. If it happened again? bIt wouldnbt bother me at all,b
she says.

      http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/news/biggest-loser-drug-scandal-1258.htm
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