Is Kirstie Alley the biggest loser?
Infamous yo-yo dieter Kirstie Alley is getting a weight-loss reality show. Will viewers want to see the 'Fat Actress' resist carbs again?
Kirstie Alley: TV's next reality star? (Corbis/Reuters/Jim Ruymen)
Kirstie Alley is partnering with A&E to star in her own 2010 reality TV series documenting her "fight to lose weight while raising two teenagers." This is hardly innovative, note commentators: Alley headlined Showtime’s Fat Actress, a 2005 semiautobiographical series based on her life in thinness-obsessed Hollywood—and later became a Jenny Craig spokes-dieter. Haven’t we seen this all before? (Watch Kirstie Alley in a scene from "Fat Actress")
Who cares? Americans crave weight-loss TV: "In case you didn’t get the memo," says Lisa de Moraes at The Washington Post, fat is the new American Idol. It doesn’t matter that this formula is tired: "Old hands" like serial loser Alley know what they’re doing.
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Alley is so relatable audiences will eat it up: "She’s the perfect fit for a reality show," says Pamela Sitt at Film.com. "Everyone in America can sympathize with a single mom who’s trying to raise kids, lose weight, and find a good man." At the very least, Alley beats her reality TV competition: she’s "way more interesting than those bozos with eight kids."
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Enough about Kirstie’s weight issues: We thought we had seen the last of Alley’s diet struggles when she made her triumphant 2006 Oprah appearance in a bikini, says Actress Archives. "We laughed, we cried, we recoiled. We’re not sure we can go through it all again." (Watch Kirstie Alley show off her bikini body on Oprah)
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Posted by Secret Story Time, Thursday, November 5, 2009, 12:26 am Kirstie Alley can still command a full audience. We all want her to get slim again!Secretia teller
Posted by ddelia Arneill, Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:56 am Hey, Kristi,,,,I am from Canada , please include me , not in the business. ,,,I will follow you along..d
Posted by Darryll, Thursday, November 5, 2009, 2:13 pm BIGGEST LOSER, yes, HUGE. BIG HUGE and a Loser. What would make someone go on a reality show and bare it all? She must have addiction issues, BIG time. She will just balloon up again. Why bother, and why bother us with your stupidity? Go away, Kirstie.
Posted by Edie, Thursday, November 5, 2009, 2:17 pm So pathetic what some desperate people will do to get attention? Are you that starved for attention, Kirstie, that you will humiliate yourself on national TV? Strutting out on Harpo in that 'bikini' which looked like grandma bra and panties, was a terrible shock. Honestly, my little boy looked at the TV and started crying. It was pretty upsetting because she should have lost a ton more before subjecting us to that body. Take a rest, think about this and do youself a favor and say NO to reality tv. No to the train wrecks with 8 kids, too.
Posted by Tomas, Thursday, November 5, 2009, 3:17 pm Why have re reuns of the same actress, blowing the same weight loss thing, again and again. Give her the boot. She's pretty whining and boring.
Posted by Truck driver mom, Thursday, November 5, 2009, 4:40 pm Must be a SLOW NEWSDAY for The Week staff. BORING subjects to comment on today. This woman is sad train wreck. She needs help, not a camera in her face.
Posted by mishawakamichael, Friday, November 6, 2009, 2:33 pm This nonreality, reality TV thing is truly pathetic. Anyone who would spend a moment of their relatively short life to watch this beached whale say or do anything is pathetic. These are the types of losers who are afforded actual voting privileges and SPECIFICALLY are the reason we had GW BUSH as president for 8 agonizing years. If you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you had better start. Everything is pointing towards a race of stupid humans while the stage is getting set for the war to come at Israel....
Posted by mishawakamichael, Friday, November 6, 2009, 2:33 pm This nonreality, reality TV thing is truly pathetic. Anyone who would spend a moment of their relatively short life to watch this beached whale say or do anything is pathetic. These are the types of losers who are afforded actual voting privileges and SPECIFICALLY are the reason we had GW BUSH as president for 8 agonizing years. If you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you had better start. Everything is pointing towards a race of stupid humans while the stage is getting set for the war to come at Israel....
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