Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels labored collectively on The Greatest Loser for years. Harper was a coach on the present for the primary 16 seasons earlier than transitioning to host for Seasons 17 and 18. In the meantime, Michaels served as a coach for Seasons 1 and a pair of, 4 by means of 11, after which 14 and 15.
The present shall be dissected within the upcoming Netflix docuseries Match for TV: The Actuality of the Greatest Loser, prompting questions on the place Harper and Michaels stand 12 years after her closing look on the load loss present. Scroll down for every little thing we all know concerning the present state of their friendship.
Are Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels nonetheless associates?
No, Harper and Michaels haven’t maintained a relationship since Michaels left the present in 2013. In a 2020 interview with Us Weekly, he confirmed that that they had not ben in contact “in any respect” for some time.
On the time, Harper was gearing as much as return for a brand new season of The Greatest Loser on USA Community. “I’m good,” he shared. “I’ve bought a few individuals from the previous, however not many. It’s good that there are contemporary eyes on the present however there are additionally my OG eyes which can be there that may assist contestants, hopefully.”
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Whereas selling the present on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen in February 2020, Harper additionally refused to reply a fan’s query about what he missed essentially the most about working with Michaels. “I’m simply actually excited to be working with the 2 new trainers. I imply, they’re implausible,” he stated, to which Andy Cohen instructed viewers, “Okay, learn between the traces.”
The Traitors contestant additionally publicly spoke out in opposition to Michaels after she commented on Lizzo‘s weight. “I might by no means even assume the place she comes from,” he stated in one other Us Weekly interview. “Relating to my ideas on anybody, I’m by no means going to present my opinion to anybody that’s not asking for it. It’s none of my enterprise.”
What did Jillian Michaels say about Bob Harper’s coronary heart assault?
In February 2017, Harper suffered a coronary heart assault whereas figuring out at a fitness center in New York Metropolis, and Michaels was vital of her former costar when she weighed in on the state of affairs just a few months later.
“What do I actually assume?” she stated on E!’s Each day Pop. “Figuring out a bit of bit about Bob, I do know that he does have a household historical past of it. I used to be there when he misplaced his mom to a coronary heart assault, with him the evening that she died. So there’s a household historical past. I do additionally assume that, you understand, you’re in the course of a CrossFit exercise and also you’re consuming Paleo, it’s not going to assist. Personally, I’m not pro-Paleo. Everybody can simply go loopy on me.”
On the time, she additionally hinted that she hadn’t had contact with Harper in fairly a while. “From what I bear in mind of Bob, he’s it, and he’s like, ‘Effectively I can [do it]!’ He’s not enthusiastic about it that method. He, personally, is like, ‘I really like this problem,’” she shared.
Why did Jillian Michaels depart The Greatest Loser?
“I don’t need followers to assume I really feel like I’m too large for the present or that I’m in search of greener pastures. I’m so grateful to the present and so unhappy to depart,” Michaels confirmed to Folks.
Nonetheless, she added that there have been “basic variations” between her and the present’s producers that had “existed for awhile” when she threw within the towel. One in every of her largest points was how she was being portrayed on the present.
“You noticed not one of the relationships, not one of the bonds that I construct with my purchasers,” she defined, including that it led “hundreds of thousands of individuals have this warped unfavorable notion of me.”
The ultimate straw got here after Michaels was accused of dishonest on the present as a result of she gave her purchasers caffeine tablets. Amid the controversy, somebody stated to her daughter, “I do know who your mother is. She’s a cheater. I noticed it on TV.”
Match for TV: The Actuality of the Greatest Loser, Friday, August 15, Netflix