Knoxville's Ashley Johnston, left, joins trainer Jillian Michaels on the May 11 episode of "The Biggest Loser."
Knoxville's Ashley Johnston, left, joins trainer Jillian Michaels on the May 11 episode of "The Biggest Loser."
Knoxville resident Ashley Johnston will be vying for $250,000 on the May 25 season finale of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser.”
Johnston advanced to the show’s final four on Tuesday night’s installment. She barely skated into the finalist slot. Had contestant SunShine Hampton lost more than 5 pounds, Johnston would have been automatically eliminated.
But because Hampton did not, Johnston was safe and moved into the finalist slot. She is the lone female contestant left on “Loser.”
Johnston is now facing competition to be the show's biggest weight percentage loser against Daris George, Koli Palu and Michael Ventrella.
During her 17 weeks on “The Biggest Loser” ranch, Johnston lost close to 140 pounds, making her the female who has lost the most amount of weight in the history of “Loser.” She is now back in Knoxville, working out in local gyms and trying to shed more weight before the finale.
Johnston’s mother, Sherry Johnston of Knoxville, will be competing for a $100,000 prize on the finale. Winners of the money prizes will be determined by the biggest percentage lost since the beginning of the show.
“I am the Pink Ninja,” Johnston said jokingly, referring to her former team’s T-shirt color and her stealthy ways.
“I will be sneaking up on (the other contestants backside).”
Johnston fretted on Tuesday’s installment about a “game plan” to help her maintain her healthier lifestyle when she returned to Knoxville.
“It’s going to be a challenge when I go home,” she said, because her Knoxville friends “are living a lifestyle” that Johnston says she can’t live anymore.
She admitted she liked clubbing and dancing in Knoxville but didn’t like “going through restaurants and clubs and having everybody stare at me and judge me.”
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