"The Biggest Loser" trainer Bob Harper is being promoted to show host after Alison Sweeney announced that she will no longer be joining the weight loss challenge program for its next season.
"The Biggest Loser" resident fitness expert Harper will be doing double duty as trainer and the new host of the show for its 17th season as announced by NBC on Tuesday. According to US Magazine, the 50-year-old exercise and health buff will take over Sweeney who has been with the show since season 4 in 2007. And after leading 13 batches of contestants through their weight loss battles, the 38-year-old "The Days of Our Lives Actress" star has decided to call it quits last month.
Harper issued a press release saying, "I'm super excited about taking the position of host on The Biggest Loser," Harper said in a press release about the news. "I've been with the show since Season 1, so I know all of the ins and outs, and let me tell you, the weigh-in room is going to be a completely different ballgame with me at the steering wheel."
In the same report by US Magazine, Harper will still be doing his usual job as trainer: share his training expertise to candidates all throughout the show. However, he will be juggling this task with the duties of his new gig as a host. Like Sweeney did, the veteran exercise expert will also be in-charge of weigh-ins, challenges, and the temptations that will challenge the will of contestants. Fellow trainers Dolvett Quince and Jennifer Widerstrom will be joining him as primary trainers.
"The Biggest Loser" is a joint production by Endemol Shine North America with 25/7 Productions. The executive producers of the show are Ben Silverman, Dave Broome, Eden Gaha, Alex Katz, Joel Relampagos, Michael Brooks, JD Roth and Todd A. Nelson.
