Here's info on The Biggest Loser Extra - the companion show to
The Biggest Loser SA. It's broadcast on e.tv on Sundays at 16h00:
The Biggest Loser Extra is a unique South African addition to The Biggest Loser International. It's altogether another game that runs parallel to the main programme and it's cloaked in secrecy so that the contestants have no idea of what's going to happen next.
The contestants who are eliminated from the main house do not go home immediately. Instead, they go into the Biggest Loser Extra house which is located in Umdloti, a beach resort outside Durban. Here they spend a week on their own which makes it a halfway house for everyone.
There isn't any of the strict control found in the main house, although contestants aren't yet at home with all the temptations they're used to.
The bigger purpose of The Biggest Loser Extra house is that the contestant who loses the most weight in the week he/she is there gets to rejoin the game. This will happen in the last week of the show so that there's a good chance that they could win the whole game.
Each Extra episode follows the evicted loser for the week that they are in the new house to see how they use their time. The show looks at their history in the main house, at how they fared and how they plan to keep healthy in future.
The Biggest Loser Extra also contains information and features trainers Lisa and Bruce giving advice about different aspects of nutrition and training.
The last episode of The Biggest Loser Extra is a Holiday Special broadcast on 16 March - just ahead of the Easter holidays. The show's presented by Lisa and Bruce and contains vital tips on how to survive the holidays.
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The first contestant to hit the Extra house was
Khanyi Magubane who got eliminated in Episode 1 after putting on weight.
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The second contestant to enter the Extra house was
Adil Ibrahim who got eliminated in Episode 2 after his Red team said he lost motivation and spirit.
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