Jillian Michaels is pushing again towards claims made about her in Netflix’s newly launched docuseries, Match for TV: The Actuality of the Largest Loser, which started streaming on Aug. 15. The sequence delves into the historical past of the NBC actuality present, The Largest Loser, which the health coach co-hosted for 12 seasons.
Among the many claims made within the docuseries is that Michaels put excessive restrictions on contestants’ diets, bragged to 1 season winner that he had made her “a millionaire” and broke present guidelines by giving contestants caffeine capsules to assist them drop some weight. The docuseries options interviews with Michaels’s cohost Bob Harper, the present’s medical marketing consultant Dr. Robert Huizenga and former contestants, forged and crew members.
Michaels shared 4 Instagram posts on Tuesday that she says problem the accusations made towards her within the Netflix sequence. Her screenshots embrace statements attributed to The Largest Loser’s govt producers Mark Koops and Dave Broome, emails with producers and a former contestant, and an electronic mail from former NBC Leisure chairman Paul Telegdy.
Along with the Instagram posts, Michaels stated she’s additionally contemplating submitting a lawsuit towards Netflix, telling TMZ that she’d already scheduled a gathering with Bryan Freedman, an leisure lawyer who’s representing Justin Baldoni in his authorized battle towards Blake Full of life.
In certainly one of her posts, Michaels shared a screenshot of an electronic mail from 2010 to a contestant on the present telling her to eat 1,600 energy the next day, in addition to screenshots of emails with present producers and medical workers, which, she wrote within the caption, present her “emphasizing the continued precedence of guaranteeing contestants have been adequately nourished.”
Michaels additionally posted screenshots of textual content messages that she stated have been despatched to her enterprise accomplice however the screenshots themselves don’t present who they’re from. In a single change, the unidentified messenger despatched a quote attributed to Broome saying he didn’t “hear any remark from Jillian about turning into a millionaire throughout the stay finale.” Within the second screenshot, the sender says Koops stated the forged was carrying microphones on the time and that “nobody is conscious of any recording capturing such a remark.”
Michaels particularly took situation with the declare that she broke guidelines and gave contestants caffeine capsules — an accusation that had been made previous to the present Netflix sequence. In a 2013 Largest Loser episode, host Alison Sweeney confronted Michaels on-air: “Final week Jillian broke the principles and gave caffeine dietary supplements to every member of her group with no physician’s permission.”
Within the Netflix sequence, Huizenga stated he had banned espresso as a result of “individuals have been abusing it.” Nonetheless, a number of former contestants who have been interviewed stated they got these caffeine dietary supplements whereas filming the present.
“Dr. Huizenga did approve caffeine capsules on many seasons,” Michaels wrote on Instagram. “Bob Harper not solely knew concerning the caffeine capsules the ‘stacks fats burner’ have been really his suggestion. I wished to make use of my model as an alternative as a result of they have been cleaner and had not more than 200mg of caffeine.”
The Largest Loser debuted on NBC in 2003 and aired for greater than a decade. On the present, contestants competed to lose the very best share of physique weight inside 30 weeks, typically utilizing weight reduction strategies together with “strenuous train” and “caloric restriction,” which have been criticized by docs and nutritionists exterior the present on the time, the New York Occasions reported in 2009.
