Biggest Loser Finale: Season 6 Winner, A Tight Race' Says Alison Sweeney
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Dec 16, 2008
"The Biggest Loser: Families" airing its live finale tonight (12/16), host Alison Sweeney notes that this season of the NBC hit show has been its most tumultuous yet. "There's been a little more of what we commonly call soap opera-style drama, which I, for one, am very comfortable and familiar with," laughs the actress, who's been a mainstay of "Days of Our Lives" for nearly half of her 32 years.
"From what I understand, it's definitely a tight race," she says of the weight losses of the finalists -- loud-mouthed Heba, uxorious Ed, conniving Vicky and gracious Michelle. "Everyone's trying to guess, of course. We really don't know until they get on the scale for that last time."
Sweeney tells us she spends a lot of time with the show's contestants off-camera. "I see them on the ["Biggest Loser"] campus, I'll go work out while they're working out in the gym when I can. They talk to me; they confide in me. I care about their stories. For me, it's hard to see every single person go," she says.
Expecting a daughter next month, Sweeney -- who already has a 3-year-old son with her California Highway Patrolman husband David Sanov -- has been busy shooting the next cycle of the show as well as doing her work on "Days." She says the daytime show's production will be working around her maternity leave, but "production of a scripted series is very different from that of a reality show. As far as 'The Biggest Loser,' we'll just have to see how it times out when I go into labor and how that unfolds." Nothing like a good cliffhanger.
IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS: Barry Watson of "Samantha Who" has 3-year-old and 1-year-old sons at home, and jokes that his New Year's resolution is "if I could just get some sleep for one night -- one full night's sleep. I guess that's not a resolution. It's a wish." He notes that his wife Tracy "needs it just as much as I do. Our two little guys are the best, but they definitely keep you going."
TREADING THE BOARDS: Noah Wyle recognizes that Los Angeles is much more of a TV and film town than it is a theater town, but the "ER" actor continues his quest to promote stage drama in the city as well. It's part of the reason he got involved with the Blank Theatre Company in L.A. many years ago, and currently serves as its artistic producer. "It's been about a year and a half since I've been in a production but I've been working behind the scenes," Wyle tells us.
"The company has grown exponentially over the last few years both in critical acclaim and audience attendance. We're really trying to position ourselves to become the preeminent regional theater of Hollywood, which doesn't currently have one," he says. "We've been around for 18 years now and have a nice trophy case and we have a great artistic director, so I have high hopes for where we can take the company."
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