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Congratulations to Ali Vincent for winning The Biggest Loser 5!
[Photos: © 2008 NBC Universal, Inc.]
After four previous seasons, the show finally has its first woman winner! She’s a total inspiration to all of us women, to see that a woman really can lose weight as well as a man. It was a grueling season, with lots of twists and turns, but Ali won $250,000 – and the coveted title of “The Biggest Loser” – at the live, season five finale last night. Ali lost 112 lbs. and 47.86% of her body weight to claim the prize. She started the show at 234 lbs., and ended weighing just 122 lbs. WOW!
Ali came on the show this season with her mother, Bette Sue Burklund, who lost 75 lbs. and went from 261 to 186 lbs.
Ali and Kelly Fields, both members of trainer Jillian Michaels‘ “black team,” were two of the finalists, and America voted at www.nbc.com to determine who would be the third finalist. In the first five minutes of the live finale, viewers learned that Roger Shultz from trainer Bob Harper’s “blue team” had beaten Mark Kruger to win a spot in the finals.
The winner of this season’s “at home” prize went to Bernie Salazar, a 27-year-old teacher from Chicago, who lost 130 lbs. and 45.94% of his body weight. He began the series weighing 283 lbs. and weighed in at 153 for the finale.