Bob Harper says Biggest Loser costar Jillian Michaels never reached out after his heart attack: ‘Spoke volumes’

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1. > Bob Harper, who cohosted 12 seasons of The Biggest Loser with Michaels, said in a recent interview with The Guardian that she was not among the alums of the controversial reality competition series who reached out to him after he suffered a heart attack.

   > “We weren’t besties, but we were partners on a television show for a very long time,” he said. Michaels’ silence “spoke volumes to me,” Harper continued, adding, “I would not expect Jillian Michaels to do anything other than what she wants to do.”

2. She has always struck me as a very selfish person.

3. Yeah cuz she’s trash

4. She made her wealth and notoriety by shaming people, doesn’t strike me as a particularly wholesome person

5. This woman is a racist who downplays American slavery, I pray for her adopted black daughter. 

6. Jillian Barberie! Jillian Barberie!

7. Yep. Still terrible.

8. she really seems like she’s not a good person and that she doesn’t like herself. Almost every interview she’s in, she always puts herself down and I feel like she protects that energy out to others. Just my take.

9. I used to be a fan but then I saw her slap her name on product after product, including multivitamins, even though she had previously ranted about multivitamins being a scam. She was doing anything to make a buck.

   Now she’s a hard right influencer. I can see her commenting on health-related MAHA, even though I disagree with her, but then she started supporting all the other far right talking points, too.

   Earlier this summer, she wrote an article for Daily Mail complaining about how LGBT pride lasts a whole month instead of just a day. (Jillian is a gay woman.)

   I guess the fitness empire thing fizzled out, and it wasn’t good enough for her to go back to being a regular fitness trainer. So she found a new way to get money and fame…as a far right speaker.

10. Jillian is a bitch. Always has been. Always will be.

11. She did seem like a total bitch!

12. He’s lucky. She’s nothing but a sleazebag.

13. The woman who made a career out of tormenting and bullying fat people into losing weight? Quelle suprise!

14. Saw her on cnn trying to argue politics . Wasnt very convincing

15. Was watching The Soup archives the other day, and there was a clip where the contestants where attempting to walk each other up this steep hill in a wheelbarrow and kept falling (w the person sitting in the wheelbarrow falling on top of them). It cuts to Jillian laughing “ok you’re never going to do it it’s next to impossible haha”… like she’s literally laughing while she set them up to brutally injure themselves smh and wtf.

    Also, a lot of the clips where they go comically rough on the contestants were black people, just an observation from both of them. One of them, for example, passed out and he put his foot on his stomach like captain Morgan. Trash ppl and borderline scary show.

16. I was just thinking about him two days ago (I was watching her episodes of the Dog Whisperer). I’m glad he’s well. He looks fantastic, dashing as ever.

17. She was always trash, he knew that already.

18. Jillian Michaels is an awful, cruel person.

    The stuff she did on the Biggest loser was deplorable.

    Bob was always the voice of reason on everything.

19. I really was affected by diet culture. The shame I felt because it was so hard to exist on no-stop cardio and 1200 calories a day. This shit caused a spiral of eating disorders. I got free tickets to some seminar she was giving and that was what made me realize that I wasn’t the problem. Her and the diet industry were my problem. Her standing up there and telling an auditorium full of people that the magic answer to being thin and beautiful is to just eat 1200 calories per day and we were just sacks of lard with a death wish if we couldn’t just be like her and also buy all of the products she had for sale. Let’s be clear:she is not a good person and she doesn’t care for anyone. 

    Also that one video of her wrestling food away from a kid. What the absolute fuck was that? 

20. Off topic but I loved Bob Harper on the Traitor, guy was dedicated to winning and had a great personality 

21. I think this is one of those cases where one thinks there was a friendship and the other doesn’t. Sometimes people treat work as a place to get a paycheck and nothing more. Others use it to connect with people as well as earning a paycheck. Unfortunately Harper is learning a valuable life lesson that not every single person he works with wants to be his friend.

    Luckily for Harper though, it sounds like Michaels is going down a right-wing path so maybe this is a blessing in disguise. I will never understand being part of the LGBT+ community and supporting right-wing ideology.

22. A MAGA lesbian who would be thrown off a tall building by the MAGA religious cult.

23. She’s a terrible person

24. Every thrift store dvd section I’ve seen has like 75 copies of her workout dvds and it’s been that way for a few years

25. Maga women are the dumbest of the dumb.

26. Never cared for snotty attitude. Her training was also downright dangerous for some contestants.

27. I used to have so many of her DVDs, back in the early days of streaming. I credit her videos with helping me lose quite a bit of weight but I started listening to her podcast in ~2011ish and it was obvious she was a narcissistic idiot. I hate that I ever gave her money.

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