Joelle Gwynn made her actuality TV debut in Season 7 of The Largest Loser in 2009. The present had a “{couples}” theme, and Gwynn competed alongside her buddy Carla Triplett.
The women had been eradicated throughout Week 5, however their story shall be revisited within the upcoming Netflix docuseries Match for TV: The Actuality of The Largest Loser. Gywnn is without doubt one of the former contestants who was interviewed for the three-part present.
Forward of the discharge, scroll all the way down to study extra in regards to the Season 7 contestant.
How a lot weight did Joelle Gwynn lose on The Largest Loser?
She began the present at 309 lbs. and ended at 229 lbs., for a complete of 80 lbs. misplaced. She additionally started with a BMI of 47 and accomplished the present with a BMI of 34.8. Gwynn has not given an replace on her present weight.
Are Joelle and Carla nonetheless buddies?
No, the ladies didn’t preserve an in depth relationship after filming ended. In addition they famously bickered on the present after Gwynn misplaced zero kilos throughout a weigh-in earlier than their elimination.
“I’ve identified Joelle for 2 years. I nonetheless think about her a buddy and have reached out to her many occasions however I don’t know the way she feels,” Triplett informed Individuals in 2009.
As Gwynn defined, “Carla and I had been truly extra of acquaintances. She did counsel for advertising functions that we put ‘greatest buddies,’ however we’re nonetheless interacting in the identical manner that we did earlier than and we’re nonetheless engaged on attaining our targets; we’re simply doing it individually. I didn’t need to come on the present and do drama. There have been some issues that had been mentioned publicly that had been hurtful, however generally relationships are rocky like that.”
Why was Joelle Gwynn sued by The Largest Loser physician?
In 2016, Gwynn made bombshell claims about her time on the present. She alleged that she was given a tablet that made her “jittery and hyper” whereas competing to drop pounds.
“I went and informed the sports activities medication man,” she alleged to the New York Put up in an article that has since been taken down, per The Hollywood Reporter. “The following day, Dr. [Robert] Huizenga gave us some lame rationalization of why they received added to our routine and that it was as much as us to take them.”
Dr. Huizenga and Gwynn’s coach on the present, Bob Harper, vehemently denied her claims. “Nothing could possibly be father from the reality,” the physician informed the Put up. “Contestants are informed initially of the present that there’s zero tolerance for any weight-loss medicine.”
Dr. Huizenga sued The New York Put up, Gwynn, and different defendants for defamation. In 2019, a choose dominated in Gwynn’s favor in Dr. Huizenga’s lawsuit in opposition to her. Choose Laura Taylor Swain mentioned that the physician couldn’t show precise malice in his case.
“[He] has not averred any info relating to his conversations or interactions with Gwynn, and even in regards to the existence or nature of the allegedly illicit capsules, that may allow the Courtroom to attract a believable inference that the Gwynn Statements had been unfaithful, such that Gwynn acted with data of their falsity when making them,” the choose’s choice mentioned, per THR.
What’s Joelle Gwynn doing now?
Gwynn will seem within the Match for TV docuseries and generally offers life updates on Fb, however for probably the most half she is not a public determine.
She briefly ran a YouTube channel and Instagram web page known as Menopause Hottie, a “common VLog and podcast on menopause,” in 2021.
Match for TV: The Actuality of The Largest Loser, Friday, August 15, Netflix