Daddy-daughter team from Ann Arbor on “Biggest Loser”
A father-daughter duo from Ann Arbor are becoming smaller and smaller contestants on the wildly popular TV Show “The Biggest Loser,” and that’s a good thing.Excerpt:Father and daughter team Andrea and Darrell Hough are still in the running on NBC’s weight-loss competition “The Biggest Loser: Couples.”The Ann Arbor residents each lost enough pounds to stay on the ranch and even managed to place fifth during the weigh-in Tuesday night. When Andrea Hough, 24, started, the executive assistant weighed 298 pounds. Meanwhile, her dad, Darrell Hough, a mechanic, weighed 413 pounds.But after a week of competing on the ranch, improving their diets and exercising, the Houghs, who make up the black team, both slimmed down. She lost 14 pounds, and he lost 30. “I don’t want to be in my dad’s shoes,” said Andrea Hough, when talking about her reasons for appearing on the reality show.Read the rest of the story here.
A father-daughter duo from Ann Arbor are becoming smaller and smaller contestants on the wildly popular TV Show “The Biggest Loser,” and that’s a good thing.
Excerpt:
Father and daughter team Andrea and Darrell Hough are still in the running on NBC’s weight-loss competition “The Biggest Loser: Couples.”
The Ann Arbor residents each lost enough pounds to stay on the ranch and even managed to place fifth during the weigh-in Tuesday night. When Andrea Hough, 24, started, the executive assistant weighed 298 pounds. Meanwhile, her dad, Darrell Hough, a mechanic, weighed 413 pounds.
But after a week of competing on the ranch, improving their diets and exercising, the Houghs, who make up the black team, both slimmed down. She lost 14 pounds, and he lost 30.
“I don’t want to be in my dad’s shoes,” said Andrea Hough, when talking about her reasons for appearing on the reality show.
Read the rest of the story here.
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