Superstar coach Michelle Bridges defends The Greatest Loser and hints the controversial weight reduction present might return to TV: ‘I believe it is necessary’

Michelle Bridges has hinted that it could be time for The Greatest Loser to return to tv screens. 

The 52-year-old celeb coach tells this week’s difficulty of Stellar Journal that she backs the notorious weight reduction actuality present regardless of criticism of it from physique positivity activists.

‘It was of its time. It was a very totally different period. It is simple to look again and pooh-pooh one thing’ she mentioned. 

‘Somewhat than taking the negativity, what I believe I get fairly enthusiastic about is the likelihood about what doorways it opens’. 

Michelle went on to say {that a} new collection may deal with among the points the previous present had, and enhance on them. 

Michelle Bridges (pictured) has hinted that it could be time for The Greatest Loser to return to tv screens

‘These conversations are what open up the doorways for an entire new dialog, for an entire new potential tv present, which I, by the way in which, would simply like to be part of. I believe it is necessary’ she mentioned. 

Bridges turned a family title after starring on The Greatest Loser for 9 seasons.

The private coach now admits the load loss present could not be made immediately.

Bridges went head-to-head with a number of fats activists throughout a spherical desk on The Venture earlier this yr and mentioned: ‘After I look again on it, 17 years in the past, it was a very totally different tradition again them. 

The Greatest Loser’s Shannan Ponton, Tiffiny Corridor, Michelle Bridges, and Steve Willis are pictured on the present

‘I do not assume that present would work immediately. In truth, I do know it would not.’

Physique-positivity activist April Hélène-Horton admitted she was nervous to fulfill Bridges in individual, claiming that The Greatest Loser ‘was one of the traumatic issues that ever occurred to me’, regardless of not showing on the present. 

‘I hear you, I completely hear you,’ a sympathetic Bridges responded.

‘And occurring a present like that again within the day, I actually needed to dig deep and query my morals round why I’m within the well being trade and why I am within the health trade.’

The famed coach first appeared on The Greatest Loser in the course of the present’s second season in 2007.

The 52-year-old celeb coach tells this week’s difficulty of Stellar Journal that she backs the notorious weight reduction actuality present regardless of criticism of it from physique positivity activists

‘These conversations are what open up the doorways for an entire new dialog, for an entire new potential tv present, which I, by the way in which, would simply like to be part of. I believe it is necessary’ she mentioned

She took over from Jillian Michaels  and starred because the crimson group’s coach till 2016, when she stop the collection for good.

It was cancelled the next yr in 2017 after the rankings dropped so low that it was moved to a daytime time-slot. 

Bridges used her time on the present to turn into a pressure within the Australian health trade, publishing greater than a dozen books and touchdown her personal line of products and attire at Massive W.

She additionally appeared in video video games on the Xbox and Nintendo and launched a physique transformation course on-line. 

Learn extra on this week’s difficulty of Stellar Journal