To 'motivate' contestants to keep training, coaches shout obscene commands, "You'll die before your kids grow up" or "We chose you pulled out a fat person's coffin." (Callahan) These backhanded comments humiliate contestants about their weight, but Hollywood approves of it because it gets a funny reaction from contestants. In addition to this harassment, contestants are forced to reveal personal information and have emotional breakdowns on national television The Biggest Loser does this to 'help' the contestants lose weight, but exposing their private lives and revealing their flaws increases the level of entertainment. According to William Egginton, professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of the article. The Best or the Worst of Our Nature: Reality TV and the Desire for Limitless Change”, “we raise false idols only to have them fall, we allow ourselves to both maintain star culture in all its vapid vacuity and take revenge at the same time on it, replacing the stars with those who are, in fact, their truth and mirror image, and then emotionalizing themselves to the point of humiliation” (Egginton). The show features ordinary people who are idolized for making a positive change in their lives in a dramatic way, but the show tears them down. Viewers find this humiliation appealing as the dejection of their idols increases