The official site has added the 2013 contestant profiles and I’ve just finished mirroring them here. Or you can navigate via the top menu to the pairing you want to see. Or you can see them and watch a little video with each couple on the official site.

For newcomers, I mirror them each year so when the official site takes one set of contestants down for the next, people can still read whatever the previous year’s people had there.

You’ll also note Tiffiny has been removed from the header image as she will apparently not be a trainer this year. Unless she’s training a team of ninjas in some kind of secret ninja training camp.

Anyway, new contestants! What do we think of them?

Via the official Twitter for The Biggest Loser Australia comes the news we’ve all been waiting for – Season 8 starts on Sunday, March 17!

If you had something else planned for that evening now would be the time to cancel it. Or face the horrors of the Recap!

Not long to go. Who’s excited?

The official site has just added two new teaser clips, both contain footage from the actual episodes this time. Are Richard and Amber ready for Michelle? It sure doesn’t seem like it in the first clip!

The second clip has Commando Steve putting Gerald and Todd through the wringer, as well as an early backstory revelation – Gerald has a daughter with spina bifida. Which means Todd has a sister with spina bifida. It’s unclear whether anyone has a daughter with spina bifida. You may need to watch the show for that.

Or, of course, read The Biggest Loser Recap. :-)

Noticed over the weekend that a new ad for The Biggest Loser was running during Masterchef and lo, they’re up on the official site today. Click here to watch them for yourself.

The two new partnerships are both mother/daughter pairings. Janet and Kirsten discuss Janet’s badgering of Kirsten, suggesting she’d pay for a gym membership if she wanted to do something about her weight. Kirsten resented this as Janet herself was obese, so shouldn’t she be doing something too?

The answer is yes, if you were wondering.

The other pair is Robyn and Kate. Kate was an Army cadet but was unable to proceed further as she was too fat for the “real” Army. I’m not sure how she expected to survive in the Army if she can’t get her weight under control, but maybe with The Biggest Loser’s help, she can? Seems a natural fit for Team Commando, no?

Stay tuned for more sneak peeks. There’s a bunch more teams to go!

The official Biggest Loser website has just posted the first two sneak peek advertisements for the 2013 season.

You can watch them by clicking here.

There’ll likely be more coming in the days and weeks ahead.

This year it will be parents and children, it seems. Gerald and Todd are father and son and poor Todd comes home from school upset most days as he’s been the subject of bullying due to his weight.

While he may go back to school thinner, being on the show probably isn’t going to do him any favours when it comes to being bullied. So let’s hope Gerald and Todd get Shannan as their trainer!

The other pair revealed today are father-daughter team Sam and Jess. Jess has recently had a stroke at the age of 21. As you might imagine, that’s a bit scary and she’s looking to change her life, etc.

If you’ve seen any ads start popping up or you notice more teasers go up on the official site, let us know in the comments!