Pour one out for the treadmill, The Biggest Loser Australia is officially six feet under at Network Ten.
Despite whispers of a reboot, Paramount bosses have confirmed the weight-loss reality relic won’t be returning in 2026 or 2027.
“While conversations about this format get floated every year, at this stage Ten have passed on the rights,” one exec told PEDESTRIAN.TV.
Behind the scenes, the show’s stuck in limbo. Endemol Shine Australia has reportedly tried shopping it around but neither Seven nor Nine want a bar of it. Too risky, too outdated and way too linked to Ten’s brand, especially after the recent Netflix documentary Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser, which saw a new wave of criticism levelled against the show.
“It’s just not happening,” one former Biggest Loser Australia producer admitted. “Ten is the wokest network of them all. There’s no way they’d risk it.”
That hasn’t stopped a few of the OG creative team from dreaming about a reimagined version, however, with fresh trainers, new hosts, and a less-problematic approach. But right now, it’s just that: a dream.
When asked what the chances are of the show returning, one former trainer told us: “Absolutely nothing,” adding that it’s been “crickets”.
Following the renewed backlash, Shannon Ponton — one of the OG trainers on the Aussie version — shared his thoughts on the Netflix documentary, saying in a recent interview that the ex-contestants who appeared on Fit for TV were trying to shift blame.
“It was everything that I thought it was going to be,” Ponton said of the documentary in an interview with KIIS FM’s Robin & Kip with Corey Oates. “It was exactly what I thought.”
“[Contestants] were looking for, I guess, a way out [rather than] to take responsibility for where they’re at,” Ponton added.
He went on to address the backlash coaches copped for shouting at contestants during training sessions, saying “that’s how trainers and coaches are in their primal state”.
“I was nobody’s puppet, and everything I did was done with the pure heart and of course there are times where you become frustrated,” Ponton said.
“What’s fascinating is that people were saying, ‘Oh, you’re just belittling these people because they’re fat. You’re making a show on them because they’re fat,’ and it’s not true.
“That’s how trainers and coaches are in their primal state,” he added.
So, will The Biggest Loser Australia ever make its way back to our screens?
Unless a streamer swoops in for a glossy reinvention, The Biggest Loser Australia is officially knocked out. Time to cue up some grainy YouTube clips if you’re feeling nostalgic.
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