Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Former contestants and producers reveal the intense, damaging reality behind the success of "The Biggest Loser."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Psychlegal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about |
| 0:06.5 | popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. |
| 0:11.7 | And I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And today we are covering the Netflix documentary |
| 0:16.8 | Fit for TV, The reality of the biggest loser. |
| 0:27.7 | And this was an interesting one because I think that I watched it sort of on my own. |
| 0:31.6 | I think you watched it kind of on your, like we never talked about covering it. |
| 0:33.9 | I think we watched, we each watched it on our own. |
| 0:39.1 | Peggy, who's our social media manager, she watched it on our own. And we're like all talking about it. And then we're like, well, maybe we should cover it. So that's the |
| 0:43.4 | backstory to how we arrived here. Well, yeah, the biggest loser has just been, I feel like, |
| 0:48.7 | such a big part of my TV life history. You know, like, it's, yes, yes. I can't remember what year it premiered. |
| 0:56.4 | Was it? |
| 0:57.0 | It was 2000. |
| 0:58.1 | Well, it premiered. |
| 0:59.1 | It was 2003 when it was developed. |
| 1:00.9 | I think the first episode aired in 2004. |
| 1:03.5 | Okay. |
| 1:04.3 | So, yeah. |
| 1:05.4 | So I watched it in the beginning, I think, pretty much every season. |
| 1:09.9 | Then I may have taken a break and |
| 1:11.5 | then gone back to it. But when I was watching it, I was visiting my daughter and she was watching |
| 1:21.7 | it with me. And she's like, oh, you've been watching this show forever. Oh, you're watching the |
| 1:27.0 | documentary. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, you're watching the documentary. |
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