Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels were a dynamic duo for 13 seasons of The Biggest Loser, but when Harper suffered a near-death experience, Michaels was nowhere to be found.
That’s what Harper, one of the weight-loss show’s original trainers who eventually hosted the final two seasons, told The Guardian in an interview published on Thursday.
In 2017, Harper suffered a heart attack at age 51 due to an undiagnosed genetic condition. He was clinically dead for nine minutes on the floor of his gym, only surviving thanks to a doctor who was present to administer CPR.
He said that many of his Biggest Loser colleagues reached out, but that he never got a call from Michaels.
“We weren’t besties, but we were partners on a television show for a very long time,” Harper said, adding that it “spo