The Biggest Loser Fakery - Please Say It Aint So

I am a huge Biggest Loser fan and, no, that has no reference to my weight. That is why when I just read this story I had to come over here to vent.

As we saw last night, Dane Patterson was the next to be eliminated from the competition. And if you watched his follow up segment, you saw him and his wife take part in a marathon. Well it turns out that his marathon result and appearance were produced for the show. Why I have no idea?

Doesn't the fact that he now holds the record for the show for losing 100 pounds in 8 weeks, enough for the producers?? I mean losing the equivalent of a young starlet in under two months is nothing to sneeze at and should be commended. But I find that it's absolutely morally wrong for the producers to have picked him up and raced him to the finish line all in the name of a production time crunch but why not just let him do the marathon on his own and film finishing it for real and then get some extras to recreate the start of the race? At least Dane and his wife fessed up about the situation while NBC tries to scramble to save their asses. There I feel better now that I got that off my chest.