Jillian Michaels rose to fame for her dedication to health, but it surely appears she doesn't at all times apply that very same dedication to friendship.

Bob Harper, who cohosted 12 seasons of The Biggest Loser with Michaels, mentioned in a current interview with The Guardian that she was not among the many alums of the controversial actuality competitors sequence who reached out to him after he suffered a coronary heart assault.

"We weren't besties, however we had been companions on a tv present for a really very long time," he mentioned. Michaels' silence "spoke volumes to me," Harper continued, including, "I’d not anticipate Jillian Michaels to do something aside from what she desires to do."

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The Greatest Loser wrapped up its 18th and remaining season in 2020, by which era Michaels hadn't served as cohost in six years. However Harper and Michaels launched the sequence collectively, driving a whole lot of contestants by grueling trials and tribulations to reduce weight over the course of their dozen shared seasons.

Harper had a serious coronary heart assault he described as "widowmaker" in 2017, three years after Michaels left the sequence for good. "I used to be in full cardiac arrest… My coronary heart stopped. To not be dramatic, however I used to be useless. I used to be on that floor useless," he defined on the time, saying he believed the one purpose he survived is that two docs occurred to be on the fitness center the place he went down.

The Greatest Loser was criticized throughout its time for the standard of its weight-loss regimens and allegations that contestants had been given caffeine tablets. The sequence' historical past will quickly be explored in Netflix's documentary Match for TV: The Actuality of The Greatest Loser, which guarantees to unpack the nice, the dangerous, and the ugly of the contentious actuality program.

"Producers love that sh–, they had been like, 'We wish them to puke! We wish the insanity of all of it!'" Harper says in a trailer.

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Michaels has since moved on from actuality internet hosting to broadcast information punditry, although she hasn't retired from controversy. She drew ire this week for a sequence of controversial statements made on CNN's NewsNight With Abby Phillip, by which she defended President Donald Trump's name for the Smithsonian Establishment to take away so-called "improper ideology" associated to points of American historical past just like the system of chattel slavery, and as an alternative "have fun American exceptionalism."

Trump is "not whitewashing slavery," Michaels argued, insisting that "you can’t tie imperialism and racism and slavery simply to 1 race, which is just about what each single [museum] exhibit does."

Host Abby Phillip mentioned she was stunned that Michaels seemed to be "attempting to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery," however Michaels held agency: "Each single factor is like, 'Oh, no, no, no, that is all as a result of white folks dangerous'… That's simply not the reality."

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