Alongside Harper was fellow straight-talking coach Jillian Michaels, and despite the pair competing as team leaders, each hoping their contestants would be the ones to lose the most weight at the weekly weighing in ceremony, they seemed to share a close and loving friendship.

Bob Harper didn’t hear from Jillian Michaels after his heart attack in 2017. In a new interview with The Guardian, Harper, 59, said many people from “The Biggest Loser” reached out to him after the near-fatal health incident — but not Michaels, 51.