{"id":579231,"date":"2010-05-26T04:43:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=106017"},"modified":"2010-05-26T04:43:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:43:10","slug":"michael-ventrella-%e2%80%9cthe-biggest-loser%e2%80%9d-season-9-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579231","title":{"rendered":"Michael Ventrella \u201cThe Biggest Loser\u201d Season 9 Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Biggest Loser: Couples<\/em> crowned a new champion on Tuesday night: A Chicago DJ, who made Loser<\/em> history when he tipped the scales on the series earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Michael Ventrella, who, at a starting weight of 526 pounds was the heaviest Biggest Loser<\/em> contestant ever, took home the $250,000 prize<\/a> after he lost 264 pounds — over 50% of his starting body weight.<\/p>\n

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“I am feeling proud of myself-which is a new feeling,”<\/em> Michael said after learning that he had worked his way to victory. “This time I gave it my all. I did it the right way and it worked.” <\/em><\/p>\n

Ventrella started the competition accompanied by his mother Maria, who was eliminated in Week 3.<\/p>\n

Coming in second place was Ashley Johnston who lost 48.93% of her Body Mass Index (BMI) and 183. Third in line — Daris George who lost 48.55% and slimmed down to 168. Koli Palu pocketed a $100,000 cash prize for winning the At-Home prize. He lost 188 pounds and 53.35% of his BMI.<\/p>\n

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The Biggest Loser: Couples crowned a new champion on Tuesday night: A Chicago DJ, who made Loser history when he tipped the scales on the series earlier this year. Michael Ventrella, who, at a starting weight of 526 pounds was the heaviest Biggest Loser contestant ever, took home the $250,000 prize after he lost 264 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579231","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\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}