Biggest Loser Article by Amy P.

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Amy Parham talks about her 'The Biggest Loser: Families' elimination


By John Bracchitta, 10/23/2008

Amy Parham, a 40-year-old real estate agent from Greer, SC, loves the
attitude of her husband Phil. But, as viewers saw in Tuesday night's The
Biggest
Loser: Families broadcast that ended in Amy's elimination, that love also
comes
the occasional chore of cleaning up the 41-year-old real estate agent's
messes

"I'm constantly trying to prevent Phillip from talking so much because he
tends to talk his way into adversity. But that's one reason I love him to
because there's never a dull moment," Amy told Reality TV World in a media
conference call on Wednesday.

However, one mess Amy said Phil -- a member of the show's Black team --
didn't create was the fallout from a conversation in which he allegedly
approached Amy's Blue team teammate Brady Vilcan about allying with his wife
and
voting Heba Salama off The Biggest Loser's Blue team.

"He didn't ask [Brady] to vote Heba out, that was mostly made up by Brady,"
Amy told reporters ."[Phillip] had a conversation with Brady on the
basketball court and he just said to him 'You know there are other options
in this
game [and] Amy's a strong player and you might wanna consider aligning with
her
because she's lost a lot of weight every week and she'd be great for the
team.'"

"He just said that in a way like he was assuming that [Brady] didn't have
any alliances because [Heba, Brady, and Vicky] never admitted to having an
alliance. So a lot of the stuff that was said last night was not even close
to
the conversation," she continued.

Amy said she was not surprised by her elimination because of the friendship
of Heba, Brady and Vicky had developed while she had only begun to develop
relationships with Heba and Amy Cremen, a 26-year-old purchasing department
representative from Auburn Hills, MI.

However, she told reporters that while the circumstances surrounding her
elimination had been somewhat confusing initially, they began to make more
sense
after watching the show's broadcast on Tuesday.

"I didn't even know until last night that Brady and Vicky had gone into the
room and had a discussion with Heba about Phillip [that was] not accurate by

any stretch of the imagination," Amy told reporters. "It kind of makes me
think that they felt threatened in their alliance with Heba because Heba,
Amy C.
and I had become very, very close that week. I think they felt they needed
to make up that little story in order to strengthen their alliance with
[Heba]
and turn her against me."

Amy told Reality TV World that while Phil and Heba's had personalities that
"really kinda never matched," she had developed a better, albeit frosty,
relationship with her.

"You know [Heba] is really funny and fun to hang around with, and I feel
like in a different circumstance -- like if we just met at a party or
something
-- we would just really like each other a whole lot," Amy told Reality TV
World. "But in this circumstance in the game situation it was tough because
she's very strong and she's very opinionated and so it kind of made it
tougher
living circumstances."

When prodded by reporters, Amy also said that, in retrospect, she believes
Brady may have even intentionally thrown -- similar to how Neil Tejwani
drank
two gallons of water to gain 17 lbs. for a weigh-in during The Biggest
Loser's fourth season -- his weigh-in in an attempt to artificially keep his

weight-loss low.

"At the time it really didn't cross my mind that he only lost three pounds
and that he could possible have done that," Amy told reporters. "I don't
know
why I didn't think that. After watching that last night I'm like 'he did
that!' I mean I don't know that for a fact but I'm just saying, you know,
that
has to be the truth."

"I'm not there the next week so I really don't know what happened, so I
guess we're all gonna see next week," she continued. "If it's true that he
did
that, than we would probably expect a big number from him next week."

After returning home from the competition, Amy said that she had kept up her

routine and had fallen into a lifestyle that she told reporters she could
maintain "for the rest of her life." She added that she had dropped her
weight
down to 140 lbs., hoped to hit 120 lbs. by the season finale, and had almost

attained her goal drop her dress size to a 6.

"I'm a size 6 in anything but tight jeans, but I'm gonna get there," she
said with a laugh.

Fitness_Chick

This is an article from the BL Newsletter
*******************************************************************

Amy Parham talks about her 'The Biggest Loser: Families' elimination


By John Bracchitta, 10/23/2008

Amy Parham, a 40-year-old real estate agent from Greer, SC, loves the
attitude of her husband Phil. But, as viewers saw in Tuesday night's The
Biggest
Loser: Families broadcast that ended in Amy's elimination, that love also
comes
the occasional chore of cleaning up the 41-year-old real estate agent's
messes

"I'm constantly trying to prevent Phillip from talking so much because he
tends to talk his way into adversity. But that's one reason I love him to
because there's never a dull moment," Amy told Reality TV World in a media
conference call on Wednesday.

However, one mess Amy said Phil -- a member of the show's Black team --
didn't create was the fallout from a conversation in which he allegedly
approached Amy's Blue team teammate Brady Vilcan about allying with his wife
and
voting Heba Salama off The Biggest Loser's Blue team.

"He didn't ask [Brady] to vote Heba out, that was mostly made up by Brady,"
Amy told reporters ."[Phillip] had a conversation with Brady on the
basketball court and he just said to him 'You know there are other options
in this
game [and] Amy's a strong player and you might wanna consider aligning with
her
because she's lost a lot of weight every week and she'd be great for the
team.'"

"He just said that in a way like he was assuming that [Brady] didn't have
any alliances because [Heba, Brady, and Vicky] never admitted to having an
alliance. So a lot of the stuff that was said last night was not even close
to
the conversation," she continued.

Amy said she was not surprised by her elimination because of the friendship
of Heba, Brady and Vicky had developed while she had only begun to develop
relationships with Heba and Amy Cremen, a 26-year-old purchasing department
representative from Auburn Hills, MI.

However, she told reporters that while the circumstances surrounding her
elimination had been somewhat confusing initially, they began to make more
sense
after watching the show's broadcast on Tuesday.

"I didn't even know until last night that Brady and Vicky had gone into the
room and had a discussion with Heba about Phillip [that was] not accurate by

any stretch of the imagination," Amy told reporters. "It kind of makes me
think that they felt threatened in their alliance with Heba because Heba,
Amy C.
and I had become very, very close that week. I think they felt they needed
to make up that little story in order to strengthen their alliance with
[Heba]
and turn her against me."

Amy told Reality TV World that while Phil and Heba's had personalities that
"really kinda never matched," she had developed a better, albeit frosty,
relationship with her.

"You know [Heba] is really funny and fun to hang around with, and I feel
like in a different circumstance -- like if we just met at a party or
something
-- we would just really like each other a whole lot," Amy told Reality TV
World. "But in this circumstance in the game situation it was tough because
she's very strong and she's very opinionated and so it kind of made it
tougher
living circumstances."

When prodded by reporters, Amy also said that, in retrospect, she believes
Brady may have even intentionally thrown -- similar to how Neil Tejwani
drank
two gallons of water to gain 17 lbs. for a weigh-in during The Biggest
Loser's fourth season -- his weigh-in in an attempt to artificially keep his

weight-loss low.

"At the time it really didn't cross my mind that he only lost three pounds
and that he could possible have done that," Amy told reporters. "I don't
know
why I didn't think that. After watching that last night I'm like 'he did
that!' I mean I don't know that for a fact but I'm just saying, you know,
that
has to be the truth."

"I'm not there the next week so I really don't know what happened, so I
guess we're all gonna see next week," she continued. "If it's true that he
did
that, than we would probably expect a big number from him next week."

After returning home from the competition, Amy said that she had kept up her

routine and had fallen into a lifestyle that she told reporters she could
maintain "for the rest of her life." She added that she had dropped her
weight
down to 140 lbs., hoped to hit 120 lbs. by the season finale, and had almost

attained her goal drop her dress size to a 6.

"I'm a size 6 in anything but tight jeans, but I'm gonna get there," she
said with a laugh.

Fitness_Chick

Oops...guess we know more of the truth of what happened last week now!!:huh: :grumble: :drinker:

Mishy

Thanks for posting. It's always get to get both sides of the story. I've been thinking a lot about the dynamics of the team members for a while, it's been hard to figure out who is being honest.

It'll be interesting to see how things turn out.

BrandNewLaura

Ugh...down with Vihedy! (Vicky, Heba, Brady)

j_g4ever

Yep don't like Heba. She needs to go. Out of here. Get her out of there. :grumble: :noway: :mad: :explode: :huh:

Sweettart

I totally agree that Heba has to go!!! She is too *****y and controlling...poor Ed!!

Nich0le

Heba needs to stay long enough to break up the automatic alliance of Vicki and Brady. I can't stand Vicki, she and her husband are up to no good and their sole purpose for being there is only the money, vicki keeps saying so and her attitude is HORRIBLE. Possibly the contestant I have liked the least since the start of the show, her and her faces. did anyone notice how happy she was that they lost the weigh in last week, she couldn't help but to keep smiling, she is rotten to the core, I promise you! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Just my opinion