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06 03 2008

Evicted ‘Loser’ John will NOT be invited to the finale.

Posted by: Mythor in Discussion, The Biggest Loser

The Sunshine Coast Daily is reporting today that evicted rulebreaker John Morrall has confirmed that he will not be invited to attend the Biggest Loser Finale.

“One of the things I visualised when I was meditating was me at the finale looking fantastic.

“I had my whole picture, rocking up on the Harley Davidson, jeans, boots, a cool belt buckle and a great t-shirt, walking down and looking at myself.

“That was my visualisation and they’ve just said to me that ‘you won’t be invited to the finale’ and that knocked me on my backside,” John said.

There’s been some confusion around the forums as to whether he would be allowed on stage at the finale and it seems clear now that he will not.

Personally, I think this was a good decision. While it would have been interesting to have seen his “final” results, by putting him up on stage the show would essentially be saying, “This is the sort of result you can get if you completely ignore doctor’s orders and put your life in jeopardy.”

Also, John reveals an interesting glimpse of what life is like inside the White House. Apparently certain folks behave very differently when they have a camera on them…

“I’ll say this, I was never a rebel but I was true to who I am and that was the most important thing from day one.

“But with a lot of the other people in the house, the minute the camera goes on them they are very different people, there’s some great little snakes in there,” he said.

But at least the snakes are heeding the free medical advice, John.

[Source: Sunshine Coast Daily]

Should John have been allowed to attend the finale?

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This entry was posted on Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 2:47pm and is filed under Discussion, The Biggest Loser. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    John might have been a defiant buggar but he was no quitter.
    He wasn't eligible for any prize money so why not bring him back?
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    Because he broke the rules? :)
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    I think's a bit unfair, but like you said he did break the rules.
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    Rules are made to be broken!
    I say invite him back just so other people with heart conditions can see how well he has done and how much weight he has lost. Then they can no longer use excuses about not being able to lose weight due to 'their heart condition'.
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    In the environment of the white house, around the environment of everyone trying to stay in as long as they can, and lose as much weight at they can: I imagine with every passing day/week it would have got tougher for John to abide by his rules. it was hard not being able to help his team in challenges, and to stick to only walking when everyone else seemed to be bumping up their fitness levels.

    As far as how he stayed and let Sean go, he did no different to most of the contestants, he tried to stay as long as he could in the house. some say he would have known he had to go soon, so he should have gone. However the whole nature of the competition vibe in teh house probably would make it hard to be self sacrificing.
    Given each weekly weigh in is actually another 2 weeks in the house for the contestants, then probably they all see another 1, 2, 3 weeks or whatever where they get a small wage for being in the house, meaning a break from work and responsibilities where they can devote 24/7 to weight loss and learning some habits on this.

    However the show cannot let people endanger themselves on teh show, so they did have to let him go. We do not see all footage, but the week or so prior to the issue coming up i was shocked to see glimpes of footage where John tried to join in pulling the barge in for a bit, and another where he was jogging in the enforcers or some other jog session. It was like he could not bare to not join in those challenges, and he could not stick to only walking.
    Plus by the time he had let Sean a massive loser for the team go, i believe he felt pressured to lose as much each week as Sean would have. So he felt pressure to not let the team down.

    To risk his life under those pressures is not good, and they did warn him, and even his team said they did not want him to risk his life to do the numbers, and they were crying about it. it sounds like he went way too far with training outside his training heart rate advised.

    Some other shows in other places have had cardiac arrests on the show. They probably should have let him go earlier, but he is very likable, interesting character. i am very glad they did not put him at risk by staying longer. It had become too hard for him not to want to risk his health to win for his team.
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    i believe john should be allowed on the biggest loser finale, not fair at all!!!
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    He got kicked off the show, he should absolutely not be allowed back. You can't break the rules and then expect everything to be hunky dory...

    Are you related to him?
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