Category — Celebrity Fit Club

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Ross Mathews, “the Intern” of Late Night with Jay Leno fame and most recently a celebrity participant of Celebrity Fit Club, has lost his “baby fat”! In fact, he has lost a remarkable 50 lbs or “half a Nicole Richie” as he put it in People Magazine. In college he was 230 lbs and although he managed to lose 16 lbs by “eating a bag of baked Lays as opposed to a bag of Cheetos,” he didn’t address the real issue which was “why do you have an entire bag of anything?” His motivation for joining Celebrity Fit Club and losing weight stemmed from the recent passing of his father. “It made me take inventory of my life. It was now or never.” [Read more →]

Popularity: 30% [?]

Kimberley Locke, of American Idol and Celebrity Fit Club fame, is reportedly going to be the new pitch woman for Jenny Craig, joining fellow celebs Kristie Alley and Valerie Bertinelli. She has apparently already lost 30 lbs on the diet plan and plans on losing another 10 before formally announcing her gig with Jenny Craig.

Seems that Jenny Craig is taking a different marketing approach with Kimberley than with its other celebrity endorsers. Their marketing strategy in the past has been to hire the celeb first and have them lose the weight on the diet. Why the change? Perhaps it’s an insurance policy for Jenny Craig? If she loses the weight great. If she doesn’t, Jenny can opt out and the story gets buried.

Popularity: 25% [?]

Tiffany, whose “I think we’re alone now” made her a teen idol, reveals to In Touch magazine her weight loss struggles and how she recently lost over 25 lbs on Celebrity Fit Club. She’s had her share of yo-yo dieting. “I shot my metabolism with crazy diets and pills. I lost so much weight going through my divorce (1997) that I got down to a size 0.” After a spread in Playboy in 2002, she began to gain weight. “I made a lot of bad choices, like eating after shows or waiting till I was so hungry I ate too much and rolled out of the chair. I relied a lot on caffeine to pick up my energy and ate Taco Bell because it was affordable and easy.” [Read more →]

Popularity: 14% [?]