After watching Netflix’s latest docuseries Match for TV: The Actuality of the Largest Loser, Rosie O’Donnell took to social media to share some ideas, together with calling out Jay Leno and collection coach Bob Harper.
The three-part docuseries particulars the rise and fall of The Largest Loser, the burden loss competitors present that initially aired on NBC from 2004 to 2016, together with the present’s varied controversies and missteps, in addition to the therapy contestants suffered each on and off display screen.
Not solely did contestants describe the hardships they confronted on the present itself, but in addition the harassment they skilled as visitors on late-night discuss exhibits. Specifically, Largest Loser Season 2 contestant Tracey Yukich recalled the time she appeared on The Tonight Present and Leno learn her dying threats aloud to the viewers.
O’Donnell, who hosted her personal daytime discuss present between 1996 and 2002, the place she gained the nickname “the Queen of Good,” took to her Instagram web page on Tuesday (August 19), sharing a screenshot of Yukich from the Netflix doc.
“Jay Leno is a imply a****** #biggestloserdocumentary,” she wrote within the submit’s caption.
In an earlier submit, the A League of Their Personal star known as out Harper, who served as a coach on The Largest Loser. “Okay now bob harper – can u not say IM SORRY – seriously- so hurtful- so merciless – come on bob – #biggestLOSERdoc @netflixuk,” O’Donnell wrote alongside extra screenshots from the docuseries.
Harper is interviewed within the Netflix doc, the place he stated he had no regrets about his time on the present.
“All the time keep in mind we have been attempting to make an entertaining present,” he stated, per Individuals. “What’s extra vital for weight reduction? Everyone knows it’s food plan however that turns into boring tv. You already know what’s not boring tv? To see us in a health club yelling, screaming… and producers liked that s***. They have been like, ‘We would like them to puke! We would like the insanity of all of it!’”
Harper did confess there have been moments he wasn’t pleased with, particularly yelling at Season 7 contestant Joelle Gwynn, however famous, “[I] will stand behind every little thing that I’ve ever completed on that present,” including that he “would by no means put anybody in hurt’s manner.”
Match for TV: The Actuality of The Largest Loser, Streaming, Netflix