Biggest Loser: Gracias Falls In Love, Cre

By Subhash K Jha

Losing weight and still throwing it around isn't hard to do. Ask the Sahara's Biggest Loser Jeetega contestant Gracious D'Costa who was in the news recently for collapsing while trying to climb up a wall, was driving all the other contestants up the wall.

Gracious has fallen in love with fellow-contestant Muna Aleem.

Says a source from the show, "One doesn't know if it was love-sickness or just a home-sickness. But yes, Gracious was showing more than a normal interest in Muna.

This wasn't going down well with the other contestants specially those in the Blue Team where Gracious and Muna belonged. So it was a war-like situation."

Apparently there was a full-blown revolt brewing in the ranks.

When contacted the show's lynchpin and anchor Suniel Shetty had a good laugh. "I'm not supposed to talk about this. But yes, attachments of these kinds are bound to happen. Gracious went through a panic situation while climbing a wall. He needs to be treated with care."

Suniel has become extremely fond of all the contestants. "It's good to see them become so motivated and lose so much weight."

Apparently all the contestants have lost 50-60 pounds.

Says Suniel, "One contestant Sandeep looks like a movie star now. Even now as I travel people hound me with questions about Biggest Loser Jeetega. And when I get a message saying, 'You've made fat look beautiful' I feel I'm doing something that's touching lives in unexpected ways."

Suddenly Suniel has become everyone's favourite dietician and psychiatrist. "I'm being asked the secret formula for losing weight and how to cope with the depression that follows regimented dieting. The biggest winner while doing this show is me."