Jillian Michaels Furious With Netflix Over Biggest Loser Doc — Threatens Lawsuit

Jillian Michaels is not quietly letting Netflix have the last word on The Biggest Loser. After the streamer’s new doc, Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser, painted her in a rough light, the former trainer says the film gets major facts wrong and she’s eyeing legal action — potentially against the producers and even her former co-trainer Bob Harper.

What the Netflix doc says vs. what Michaels says

• The documentary alleges Michaels gave caffeine pills to contestant Rachel Fredrickson and pushed her to unhealthy extremes. Michaels tells Fox News Digital that never happened — and adds she never trained Fredrickson at all.
• A former contestant claims Michaels told him he made her a millionaire. She flatly denies that too, pointing out that both of them were miked and the on-camera hug in question lasts a blink, making that exchange, in her view, impossible.
• Michaels did not participate in the Netflix film and says it misrepresents her role and behavior on the show.

The quote that sets the tone

"An egregious lie."

That’s how Michaels sums up the doc’s portrayal of her. For context, she coached the Red Team on NBC’s The Biggest Loser on and off from 2004 to 2011, back when the series was pitching itself as a life-transformation competition built around weight loss and healthy habits. The Netflix film revisits that era with a harsher lens, and Michaels says some of its most charged moments are simply not true. One bit of inside baseball she leans on: she and the contestant in that millionaire moment were both wearing microphones, and the footage of the hug is so brief that, as she tells it, there isn’t time for the line he swears she said.

Legal moves and a counter-doc in the works

Michaels says she’s weighing her legal options now — and yes, that could include action against the show’s producers and Bob Harper. She’s picking her battles, though. Her take: you can’t fight every giant at once, so she’ll choose one and make that stand part of how she wants her legacy defined.

Also in play: she’s reportedly talking with The Biggest Loser’s executive producers about putting together a documentary of her own to tell her side of the story. If that happens, expect more receipts — and probably more behind-the-scenes details than Netflix offered.