The Biggest Loser Finale: The Weight's Over For A New Champion!

Does watching people get healthy and remake their lives ever get old? Fat chance. A new Biggest Loser was crowned tonight in NBC's live season finale, which featured inspirational tales of pounds lost, tears shed and lives regained. Sure, all of the recaps and promotional tie-ins that host Alison Sweeney has to cram in made the night seem a little bloated (sorry!), but the weight of these inspirational stories never failed to get us all emotional (and back on the treadmill). So who won: Daris, Ashley or Michael? Read on… Michael, who began as the show's heaviest competitor ever at 526 pounds, won the $250,000 prize after dropping an incredible 264 pounds—half his body weight! Hope that quarter-million-dollar prize doesn't weigh him down too much.