By Brian Clark
Last night I tuned in for one of my favorite guilty pleasures — watching The Biggest Loser on NBC.
The episode featured celebrity trainer Jillian Michaels being hurled off of the Auckland Sky Tower, the highest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.
(OK, she had a sort of bungee cord apparatus that kept her from falling to her doom. But you know there were still some cheers).
Michaels is one of those people you either love or loathe. She screams at the contestants. She’s snotty. She calls her workouts “beatings.” Professional trainers cringe at her technique.
She’s also widely adored and credited with inspiring thousands — maybe hundreds of thousands — of people to lose weight. And those contestants she screams... More...
