The Biggest Loser

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The Biggest Loser is a reality television show which started in the United States in 2004. The show centers on overweight and obese contestants attempting to lose the most weight and to fight for a cash prize. There are different variations of The Biggest Loser around the world. Each country has made its own adaptation to the show; however, the contestants always have the same goal: to lose the highest percentage of weight (or most weight) to become the Biggest Loser. There is no minimum or maximum weight limit for the show but most males tend to weigh over or near 300 lb (136 kg). Females tend to weigh over or near 200 lb (91 kg).

Each country has its own variation of the show. Some seasons will have a single contestant on a team, couples, or families, these usually rotate depending on the season and the directors.

International versions

     Currently airing franchise
     Franchise with an upcoming season
     Franchise whose status is unknown
     Franchise no longer aired
Country/Region Title Television network Winners Presenters Trainers
 Argentina Cuestión de peso (matter of weight) Canal 13 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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  • Sergio Verón
Asia[1] The Biggest Loser Asia Diva Universal <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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  • Kristy Curtis
  • Dave Nuku
Arab League Arab world Ar-Rabeh Al-Akabar
(Arabic: الرابح الأكبر)
The Biggest Winner		 MBC 1 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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  • Carolina de Oliveira
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  • Noor Khatab (3–4)
  • Lina Rahma (3–4)
  • Patci Saliba (2)
  • Hani Abu Al-Naja (1–2)
  • Zaina Habi (1)
 Australia The Biggest Loser Network Ten <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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 Brazil O Grande Perdedor
The Biggest Loser		 SBT Season 1, 2005: Andreia Dutra Silvio Santos Alexandre Viotti
Melina Pardo
Quem Perde Ganha
Who Loses Win		 Season 2, 2007: Reginaldo de Souza Lígia Mendes Marcelo Piacentini
Patricia Beires
 China[2] The Biggest Loser: 超级减肥王(2013)
The Biggest Loser: Super Diet King
The Biggest Loser: 减出我人生(2015-2016)		 CCTV-2(2013)
Jiangsu TV(2015–2016)		 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2013: Zu Jiaze（祖嘉泽）
  • Season 2, 2015-2016:Zhang ChangRong（詹昌荣）
 Lola Xie (2013)
Zhu Dan (2015-2016)		 Will Liu
Xinyu Zheng
 Finland Suurin pudottaja
Biggest Loser		 MTV3 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2006: Hardy Dieter
  • Season 2, 2007: Virpi Heikkilä
  • Season 3, 2009: Kaisu Romppainen
  • Season 4, 2014: Teemu ?
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 Germany The Biggest Loser Germany ProSieben <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2009: Enrico Proba
 Katarina Witt <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Current
  • Silke Kayadelen (2-3,5-)
  • Ramin Abtin (5-)
  • Former
  • Bineta Coulibaly (4)
  • Nunzio Esposito (4)
  • Andreas Büdeker (2-3)
  • Nele Sehrt (1)
  • Wojtek Vetter (1)
kabel eins <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 2, 2010: Heino Herrmann
  • Season 3, 2011: Carlo Werner
 Regina Halmich
Sat.1 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 4, 2012: Jack Handl
  • Season 5, 2013: Paride Loreto
  • Season 6, 2014: Marc Haile
  • Season 7, 2015: Stefan
  • Season 8, 2016: Upcoming season
 Christine Theiss
The Biggest Loser Teens
(Teenager-Version)		 Sat.1 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2014: Erfan Khorasani
 Christine Theiss <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Silke Kayadelen (1-)
  • Ramin Abtin (1-)
  • Detlef D! Soost (1-)
 Hungary A Nagy Fogyás
A Great Loss		 TV2 Season 1, 2007: István Ferencsik Gabriella Jakupcsek Unknown
 Iceland Biggest Loser Ísland SkjárEinn <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2014: Jóhanna Elísa Engelhartsdóttir
  • Season 2, 2015: Stefán Sverrisson
  • Season 3, 2016: Current Season
 Inga Lind Karlsdóttir[3] Gurrý Torfadóttur
Evert Víglundsson
 India Biggest Loser Jeetega Sahara One Season 1, 2007: Sandeep Sachdev Suniel Shetty <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Deepika Mehta
  • Yusef Khan
 Israel Laredet Begadol
(Hebrew: לרדת בגדול)
Going Down Big Time		 Channel 10 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2006: Liron
  • Season 2, 2007: Tsvika
  • Season 3, 2008: Avi
  • Season 4, 2011: Karen Glasner
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  • Or-ly Hoffman Bar
  • Tse'ela Evroni
  • Barak Tzur
 Latvia[4] XXL TV3 Latvia Season 1, 2008: Karl Ventaskrasts[5] Zane Vaļicka Raivis Vidzis
Aivars Vysotsky
 Mexico Cuánto Quieres Perder?
How Much You Want to Lose?		 Televisa Season 1, 2008: Ignacio Mestas Galilea Montijo Unknown
 Netherlands De Afvallers
The Slimmers		 SBS 6 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2005: Daan & Irma Steenkamp with kids
  • Season 2, 2006: Bert & Grietje Bakker with kids
  • Season 3, 2006: Marco & Suzy Niels van Boxtel
  • Season 4, 2007: Mark Dakriet
  • Season 5, 2007: Nijmeijers Family
  • Season 6, 2011: Unknown
 Marlayne Sahupala <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Current
  • Yneke Vocking (1–)
  • Imro Beuk (1–)
  • Hein Vergeer (5–)
  • Former
  • Barbara de Loor (3–4)
  • Gianni Romme (3)
  • Mo Achahboun (1–2)
  • Lenny Versteegden (1)
  • Jessica Gal (1)
  • Sandra van de Kamp (2)
The Biggest Loser Holland Season 1, 2013: Current season <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Sandra van de Kamp
  • Arjuna Lakner
Norway Norway The Biggest Loser Norge TVNorge <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 2, 2015: Lars Dahlum Johansen
  • Season 3, 2016: Upcoming season
 Henriette Bruusgaard <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Tonje Jenssen
  • Adrian Paul
 Peru Dale con Ganas[6]
Give It All You've Got		 Univision Season 1, 2012: Dieter Goldschmidt Alfonso de Anda <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Luis Alberto Aracena
  • Marcelo Crudele
  • Maria Simon
  • Oscar Luna
 Philippines The Biggest Loser Pinoy Edition ABS-CBN <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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  • Jim Saret (1-2)
  • Toni Saret (2)
  • Chinggay Andrada (1)
 Poland Co Masz Do Stracenia?
What Do You Have To Lose?		 TV Puls Season 1, 2008: Jaroslaw Małgorzata Ostrowska-Królikowska Unknown
 Portugal Peso Pesado
Heavyweight		 SIC <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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  • Current
  • Bárbara Guimarães (2–)
  • Former
  • Júlia Pinheiro (1)
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  • Current
  • Joana Mota(3)
  • Mauro Policarpo(3)
  • Pedro Correia(3)
  • Former
  • Rui Barros (1-2)
  • Conceição Gonçalves (2)
  • Sara Freitas (1)
 Puerto Rico[7] Transformación Total
Total Transformation		 WAPA-TV <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2010: Vivian V. Rodríguez[8]
  • Season 2, 2011: Ángel "Joel" Díaz[9]
 Zuleyka Rivera Unknown
 Romania Marele câștigător
The Big Winner		 Antena 1 Season 1, 2010: Grațian Stan Daiana Anghel <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Florin Uceanu
  • Cori Gramescu
 Russia Vzveshenniye lyudi
The Weighted People		 STS Season 1, 2015: Pyotr Vasilyev
  • Season 2, 2016: Upcoming season
 Julia Koval'chuk <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Irina Turchinskaya
  • Denis Semenihin
DenmarkNorwaySweden Scandinavia Biggest Loser Kanal 5 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Martin Björk Pauline Nordin
 Slovakia Super Telo STV Season 1, 2006: Ján Mäsiar Iveta Malachovská Unknown
 South Africa The Biggest Loser South Africa E.tv Season 1, 2008: Sharon Haarhoff Jasmyn Asvat Unknown
 Spain[10] Andalusia La Báscula
The Scale		 Canal Sur Season 1, 2013: Unknown
Season 2, 2014: Unknown
Season 3, 2015: Rafael Cintado		 Enrique Sánchez Unknown
Aragon La Báscula
The Scale		 Aragón TV Season 1, 2015: Unknown Luis Larrodera Unknown
 Sweden[11] Biggest Loser Sverige
Biggest Loser Sweden		 TV4 <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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  • Current
  • Sabina Dufberg (4-)
  • Mikael Hollsten (5-)
  • Former
  • Mårten Nylén (1-4)
  • Tanja Djelevic (1, 3)
  • Olga Rönnberg (2)
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Kristin Kaspersen
 Turkey[12] Yeni Bir Hayat
New Life		 Star TV Season 1, 2012: Hakan Aktürk Ebru Akel <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Figen Yorgancıoğlu
  • Ufuk Sönmez
 Ukraine[13] Zvazheni ta schaslyvi
(Ukrainian: Зважені та щасливі)
Weighted and Happy		 STB <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Season 1, 2011: Mykola Voroshnov
  • Season 2, 2012: Oleh Zakrevskyy
  • Season 3, 2013: Mariya "Mariyka" Vdovenko [14]
  • Season 4, 2014: Yuliya Fomina
  • Season 5, 2015: Alexander Repyanchuk
  • Season 6, 2016: "Upcoming season"
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  • Current
  • Yana Solomko (6)
  • Former
  • Olesya Zhurakivs'ka (2–5)
  • Lyubava Greshnova (1)
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  • Current
  • Vyacheslav Uzelkov (4-)
  • Marina Borzhemskaya-Uzelkova (6-)
  • Former
  • Anita Lutsenko (1-5)
  • Igor Obukhovs'kyy (1-5)
United Kingdom United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland Ireland The Biggest Loser Living TV <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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  • Angie Dowds
  • Mark Bailey
ITV[15] <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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  • Charlotte Ord (5)
  • Rob Edmond (5)
  • Richard Callender (3–5)
  • Angie Dowds (3–4)
 United States The Biggest Loser NBC <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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 Vietnam Cuộc chiến giảm cân
The Biggest Loser Vietnam		 VTV Season 1, 2016: TBD

Biggest Loser records

Heaviest contestant
  • Male: Kevin Moore of The Biggest Loser Australia: The Next Generation and The Biggest Loser Australia: Challenge Australia The Biggest Loser Australia 9, weighed 254.7 kilograms (562 lb).[16]
  • Female: Shay Sorrells of The Biggest Loser Second Chances (U.S.) weighed 476 pounds (216 kg).
Biggest weight loss
  • Male: Alexander Repyanchuk of the Weighted and Happy 5 (Ukrainian version) lost 60.13% of his total body weight
  • Female: Rachel Frederickson of the The Biggest Loser 15 of the US version lost 59.62% of her total body weight
Other

Jodie Prenger from series 2 of the UK version was the first female biggest loser worldwide losing 46.85% of her original body weight.

Other media

The Biggest Loser RunWalk is the official race series of The Biggest Loser.[17] Dan and Jackie Evans from Season Five are the national spokespeople.

The Biggest Loser is a video game for Wii and Nintendo DS. It was released in North America on October 6, 2009 and Europe on November 13, 2009.

The Biggest Loser: Ultimate Workout is a video game for Xbox 360 which uses its Kinect camera.[18] Developed by Blitz Games and published by THQ, it was released in North America on November 4, 2010 and Europe on November 10, 2010.

The Biggest Loser: Challenge is a video game for Wii released on November 4, 2010 in North America and November 12, 2010 in Europe.

See also

References

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