{"id":211396,"date":"2010-01-22T03:25:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T08:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89744"},"modified":"2010-01-22T03:25:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T08:25:34","slug":"%e2%80%9cdance-your-ass-off%e2%80%9d-host-marissa-jaret-winokur-fired-for-being-%e2%80%9ctoo-fat%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/211396","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDance Your Ass Off\u201d Host Marissa Jaret Winokur Fired For Being \u201cToo Fat\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marissa Jaret Winokur — the full-figured Broadway star-turned-Dancing With The Stars<\/em> contestant — was fired as host of Oxygen’s popular weight-loss show Dance Your Ass Off<\/em> because she was “too fat,” a new report claims. <\/p>\n

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Marissa won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Tracy Turnbland in Broadway’s Hairspray<\/em>, but she didn’t score any points with Dance<\/em> bosses. The actress was replaced on the program earlier this month by the former Spice Girl Melanie Brown. At the time, series producers said Mel B was a “better fit” for the show’s audience and said “after talking to the audience that there was a portion … who loved her and a portion who didn’t connect with her.” <\/p>\n

But Us Weekly<\/em> has a different story; spywitnesses tell the tab Marissa was let go because she’s too curvy to host a weight loss program. (So Oxygen thinks contestants will have an easier time connecting with a skinny chick?)<\/p>\n

“The producers were constantly on her to lose weight,”<\/em> a tipster divulged. “She was asked to wear suits to cover her arms and legs. She was fired for being fat.” <\/em><\/p>\n

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Marissa Jaret Winokur — the full-figured Broadway star-turned-Dancing With The Stars contestant — was fired as host of Oxygen’s popular weight-loss show Dance Your Ass Off because she was “too fat,” a new report claims. Marissa won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Tracy Turnbland in Broadway’s Hairspray, but she didn’t score any points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}