Jillian Michaels Through the Eyes of Jackie Warner (Bravo's Work Out)
Hot Takes & Deep Dives
Jess Rothschild
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As "The Biggest Loser" Netflix documentary dominates the cultural conversation, Jess has compiled her many interviews with Jillian Michaels' ex-girlfriend of 7 years, Jackie Warner, known for Bravo's reality show Work Out. Topics -- Jackie's first date with Jillian in 1997, Jillian stealing $$ from her pre-fame bartending job, how she set Jillian up for a career in fitness and The Biggest Loser, why Jackie paid thousands of dollars to end their relationship, Bob Harper and a true window in the psychology of Jillian Michaels.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives. |
| 0:16.6 | And before we begin airing brand new episodes next week, it does look like a bonus episode is upon us, |
| 0:23.5 | since the biggest loser documentary is currently number one on Netflix. |
| 0:28.2 | Now, you may know that Jackie Warner, star of the Bravo reality show Workout, |
| 0:32.6 | has been a guest on this show many times. |
| 0:35.8 | What a lot of people don't know is that Jillian Michaels and Jackie |
| 0:39.3 | Warner dated and lived together for seven years. So I've compiled the best of my convos with Jackie |
| 0:45.3 | to shed some psychological insight on Jillian Michaels as I consider her the primary source on the |
| 0:51.8 | subject. We get into the biggest loser, Bob Harper, how workout came to be, and a lot more. |
| 0:58.1 | So enjoy this bonus episode, and I'll be back next week with brand new episodes of hot |
| 1:02.9 | takes and deep dives. |
| 1:05.0 | How did you meet Jillian Michaels initially? |
| 1:08.2 | I met Jill at a lesbian bar. |
| 1:10.7 | She was 21. I was like 30. I think I'm like |
| 1:14.2 | nine years older than her. I just got carjacked that night. And on the way to a date, |
| 1:20.5 | like, and someone at gunpoint took my car and my purse and everything. And so I was super bummed out. |
| 1:28.7 | So who do you call? |
| 1:29.8 | You call your best friends. |
| 1:31.0 | So my best friends come pick me up and they say, you know what? |
| 1:33.8 | They had a bottle of tequila and they said, tequila will solve this feeling. |
| 1:37.9 | So we went from bar to bar. |
| 1:39.6 | We ended up at this dive bar palms. |
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