The Biggest Loser

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	Season 1, 2006: Franco Season 2, 2007: Carina Season 3, 2008: Eduardo Season 4, 2010: Fran Season 5, 2012: Gastón Season 6, 2013: Darío Tapia	Sergio Verón (6-) Former Andrea Politti (4-16) Claribel Medina (4-16)	Sergio Verón
Asia[1]	The Biggest Loser Asia	Diva Universal	Season 1, 2009: David Gurnani Season 2, 2010: Raj Devaraj	Sarimah Ibrahim (1) Marion Caunter (2)	Kristy Curtis Dave Nuku
Arab world	Ar-Rabeh Al-Akabar (Arabic: الرابح الأكبر) The Biggest Winner	MBC 1	Season 1, 2006: Abdullah Hammad Season 2, 2007: Walead hemayed Season 3, 2008: Mohammad Mazboudi Season 4, 2009: Karim Abdullah	Carolina de Oliveira	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	Season 1, 2006: Adro Sarnelli Season 2, 2007: Chris Garling Season 3, 2008: Sam Rouen Season 4, 2009: Bob Herdsman Season 5, 2010: Lisa Hose Season 6, 2011: Emma Duncan Season 7, 2012: Margie Cummins Season 8, 2013: Katie & Robyn Dyke Season 9, 2014: Craig Booby Season 10, 2015: Daniel Jofre Season 11, 2017: TBA	Current Fiona Falkiner (10–) Former Ajay Rochester (1-4) Hayley Lewis (5-9)	Current Shannan Ponton (2-) Libby Labet (11-) Former Steve Willis (4-10) Michelle Bridges (2-10) Tiffiny Hall (6-7, 10) Emma Hutton (4) Bob Harper (1-3) Jillian Michaels (1-3)
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)	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	Season 1, 2006: Hardy Dieter Season 2, 2007: Virpi Heikkilä Season 3, 2009: Kaisu Romppainen Season 4, 2014: Teemu ?	Eeva Jaakonmaa Sini Rantanen Heidi Suomi Lola Wallinkoski	Jani Sievinen (1-3) Eva Wahlström (1-3) Mikko Nummenmaa(4) Jenni Levävaara (4)
Germany	The Biggest Loser	ProSieben	Season 1, 2009: Enrico Proba	Katarina Witt	Current Ramin Abtin (5-) Mareike Spaleck (8-) Former Silke Kayadelen (2-3,5-7) Bineta Coulibaly (4) Nunzio Esposito (4) Andreas Büdeker (2-3) Nele Sehrt (1) Wojtek Vetter (1)
		kabel eins	Season 2, 2010: Heino Herrmann Season 3, 2011: Carlo Werner	Regina Halmich
		Sat.1	Season 4, 2012: Jack Handl Season 5, 2013: Paride Loreto Season 6, 2014: Marc Haile Season 7, 2015: Stefan Season 8, 2016: Ali	Christine Theiss
	The Biggest Loser Teens (Teenager-Version)	Sat.1	Season 1, 2014: Erfan Khorasani	Christine Theiss	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	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	Deepika Mehta Yusef Khan
Israel	Laredet Begadol (Hebrew: לרדת בגדול) Going Down Big Time	Channel 10	Season 1, 2006: Liron Season 2, 2007: Tsvika Season 3, 2008: Avi Season 4, 2011: Karen Glasner	Tzipi Shavit	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 Do You Want to Lose?	Televisa	Season 1, 2008: Ignacio Mestas	Galilea Montijo	Unknown
Netherlands	De Afvallers The Slimmers	SBS 6	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	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		Sandra van de Kamp Arjuna Lakner
Norway	The Biggest Loser Norge	TVNorge	Season 2, 2015: Lars Dahlum Johansen Season 3, 2016: Upcoming season	Henriette Bruusgaard	Tonje Jenssen Adrian Paul
Peru	Dale con ganas[6] Give It All You've Got	Univision	Season 1, 2012: Dieter Goldschmidt	Alfonso de Anda	Luis Alberto Aracena Marcelo Crudele Maria Simon Oscar Luna
Philippines	The Biggest Loser Pinoy Edition	ABS-CBN	Season 1, 2011: Larry Martin Season 2, 2014: Bryan Castillo	Iza Calzado (2) Matteo Guidicelli (2) Robi Domingo (2) Sharon Cuneta (1) Derek Ramsay (1)	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	Season 1, 2011: Fábio Neves Season 2, 2011: Marco André Season 3, 2015: João Manuel	Current Bárbara Guimarães (2–) Former Júlia Pinheiro (1)	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	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	Florin Uceanu Cori Gramescu
Russia	Vzveshenniye lyudi The Weighted People	STS	Season 1, 2015: Pyotr Vasilyev Season 2, 2016: Timur Bikbulatov Season 3, 2017: Upcoming season	Julia Koval'chuk	Irina Turchinskaya Denis Semenihin
Scandinavia	Biggest Loser	Kanal 5	Season 1, 2005: Rooy Rodriguez Ramirez	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]	La báscula The Scale	Canal Sur	Season 1, 2013: Unknown Season 2, 2014: Unknown Season 3, 2015: Rafael Cintado	Enrique Sánchez	Unknown
	La báscula The Scale	Aragón TV	Season 1, 2015: Unknown	Luis Larrodera	Unknown
Sweden[11]	Biggest Loser Sverige Biggest Loser Sweden	TV4	Season 2, 2010: Karl Fredrik Jonsson Season 3, 2012: Ralph Nicolaisen	Jessica Almenäs	Current Sabina Dufberg (4-) Mikael Hollsten (5-) Former Mårten Nylén (1-4) Tanja Djelevic (1, 3) Olga Rönnberg (2)
		Sjuan	Season 4, 2013: Simon Kachoa Season 5, 2014: Hristos Adoniadis Season 6, 2015: Robert Sander Season 7, 2016: Sandra Wikström Season 8, 2017: Upcoming season	Kristin Kaspersen
Turkey[12]	Yeni Bir Hayat New Life	Star TV	Season 1, 2012: Hakan Aktürk	Ebru Akel	Figen Yorgancıoğlu Ufuk Sönmez
Ukraine[13]	Zvazheni ta schaslyvi (Ukrainian: Зважені та щасливі) Weighted and Happy	STB	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	Current Yana Solomko (6) Former Olesya Zhurakivs'ka (2–5) Lyubava Greshnova (1)	Current Vyacheslav Uzelkov (4-) Marina Borzhemskaya-Uzelkova (6-) Former Anita Lutsenko (1-5) Igor Obukhovs'kyy (1-5)
United Kingdom & Ireland	The Biggest Loser	Living TV	Series 1, 2005: Aaron Howlett Series 2, 2006: Jodie Prenger	Vicki Butler-Henderson	Angie Dowds Mark Bailey
		ITV[15]	Series 3, 2009: Kevin Sage Series 4, 2011: Will Graham Series 5, 2012: Kevin McLernon	Davina McCall (4–5) Kate Garraway (3)	Charlotte Ord (5) Rob Edmond (5) Richard Callender (3–5) Angie Dowds (3–4)
United States	The Biggest Loser	NBC	Season 1, 2004: Ryan Benson Season 2, 2005: Matt Hoover Season 3, 2006: Erik Chopin Season 4, 2007: Bill Germanakos Season 5, 2008: Ali Vincent Season 6, 2008: Michelle Aguilar Season 7, 2009: Helen Phillips Season 8, 2009: Danny Cahill Season 9, 2010: Michael Ventrella Season 10, 2010: Patrick House Season 11, 2011: Olivia Ward Season 12, 2011: John Rhode Season 13, 2012: Jeremy Britt Season 14, 2013: Danni Allen Season 15, 2014: Rachel Frederickson Season 16, 2015: Toma Dobrosavljevic Season 17, 2016; Roberto Hernández	Current Bob Harper (17-) Former Caroline Rhea (1–3) Alison Sweeney (4-16)	Current Dolvett Quince (12-) Jennifer Widerstrom (16-) Former Jessie Pavelka (16) Anna Kournikova (12) Brett Hoebel (11) Cara Castronuova (11) Kim Lyons (3-4) Jillian Michaels (1-2, 4-11, 14-15) Bob Harper (1-16)
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

• Weight loss camp
• Downsize Me!
• Operation Transformation (TV series)

References

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