“The Biggest Loser"was a show that most people remember as a staple of early 2000s television.

He returned for Season 8, working hard each week and making it all the way to week 9.

“We went from not liking each other to becoming friends to becoming best friends,” she said.

Jillian Michaels smirking

After the show, the two kept in touch, and it was clear that deeper feelings were growing.

“We realized that we wanted to spend hours on the phone talking to each other.

I in turn fell in love with my best friend,” Meyer reflected.

Daniel Wright and family

Yesterday the world lost a bit of its light” (via Global News).

He was an incredible husband and father to his two-year old daughter, Giselle.

He was an inspiration and a mentor to so many.

Damien Gurganious with wife Nicole

His love for his family and friends was immense" (via Us Weekly).

“There was no easing into it,” Hibbard told the New York Post.

“That doesn’t make for good TV.

Kai Hibbard wearing earphones

My feet were bleeding through my shoes for the first three weeks.”

Contestants have admitted to intentionally dehydrating themselves so that they weigh less.

It’s just part of the nature of reality TV."

Ryan Benson on The Biggest Loser

In aYouTube clipof Frederickson’s weight loss reveal, viewers see her emerging looking very thin.

Trainer Jillian Michaels is seen in the video looking shocked and worried as Frederickson shows off her new figure.

One YouTube commenter wrote: “At 105 she was VERY underweight.

Rachel Frederickson on The Biggest Loser finale

At her 5'5” her HEALTHY range is 124-144.

She had done some extreme exercising between the actual last workout and this finale.

Though he lost 120 pounds on the show, Benson ended up regaining that amount plus more.

Ryan Benson in an interview

Another contestant in the same mile-long race was also hospitalized after collapsing, according toNBC.

“The Biggest Loser” medical consultant Dr. “Things are going to happen.”

“She said, ‘I can’t.’

Tracey Yukich being interviewed

She was seriously injured,” Hibbard recalled.

“It’s more powerful than any public health message.

This study proves that’s not the case.

Biggest Loser contestants working out

I could be diligent and eating normal, but still gaining weight.

I think it really puts a new perspective on things,” Cahill said (viaUs Weekly).

I would advise them not to do it."

The Biggest Loser contestants

If I eat what a normal human would eat, I gain a pound a week."

There were also plenty of injuries on the show.

Someone asked me where I was born, and I couldn’t remember.

Danny Cahill Biggest Loser

My short-term memory still sucks."

Biggest Loser weigh-in

The Biggest Loser contestant crying

The Biggest Loser cast