Michelle Bridges

Michelle Bridges
Born (1970-10-20) 20 October 1970[1]
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australian
Occupation Personal trainer, author, television personality
Spouse(s) Bill Moore (2003-2013)
Partner(s) Steve Willis (2012-present)
Children 1
Website michellebridges.com.au

Michelle Bridges (born 20 October 1970) is an Australian personal trainer, author and TV personality. She is a trainer on the Australian version of The Biggest Loser, making her first appearance in the second season, in 2007, during which she trained the red team alongside Jillian Michaels.

Early life

Michelle Bridges attended high school in Nelson Bay, New South Wales. In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, she said "I was 14 when I pitched the idea to my school mistress that I would take the kids at school who didn't play sport, who hung around smoking cigarettes, and do fitness classes with them." She then went on to take over space at a local squash court along with her personal trainer Tash Sheehy and taught classes there. At age 18 she became a certified fitness instructor.[2]

Career

Television appearances

Bridges has been a trainer on The Biggest Loser since 2007. In her first season, she trained the red team alongside Jillian Michaels. She has appeared as the red team trainer on every season of the show since.

Bridges has appeared on the Nine Network's Mornings with Kerri-Anne as a women's health and fitness expert.[3]

Bridges was one of the contestants in Celebrity MasterChef Australia. She describes herself as "a bit of a foodie" and won the second heat with her signature dish of Moroccan spicednnnnnnn lamb with eggplant and currant couscous, beating performer Kathleen de Leon Jones and journalist Peter FitzSimons to continue in the competition.[4]

Bridges regularly appears as a guest on shows such as Can of Worms, The Project and Sunrise.

Books

In addition to her TV appearances, Bridges is the author of several books, including:

BIG W

In 2012, Bridges launched the fitness and leisure range ONEActive, sold in Big W stores across Australia.[3] This includes hardware fitness goods, footwear and apparel. Her fitness wear ranges in sizes from 8-26. In August 2013 her apparel was launched on the BIG W website and in September 2013 she established a licence agreement to also sell kitchenware with the retail chain. Also in September 2013, Bridges expanded her apparel to include children's fitness clothes for ages 8 to 16.

Games

In 2010, Ubisoft brought Bridges to Canada to help develop the weight loss segments of their product Your Shape Fitness Evolved. The company used motion capture to create an avatar of Bridges to appear in the game, which will use the Kinect technology. Bridges said "It was quite extraordinary. I'm now a fitness trainer inside an XBox game."[5] Bridges said fitness games could provide as good a workout as going to the gym, saying "If you can roll out of bed and turn on your Xbox and get into it games like this one, you've just cut your travel time to get the gym, to find a park and you're good to go. There's a real opportunity to spark a passion to get into your fitness."[6]

12 Week Body Transformation

Michelle Bridges started the online 12 Week Body Transformation 12wbt.com in 2010. The program, to date, has lost over 2,000,000 kilos from the Australian public and worldwide participants.[5]

Personal life

Bridges married fitness trainer and gym owner Bill Moore, who later became her business manager, in 2003. The couple separated in May 2013[7] and Bridges began dating fellow Biggest Loser trainer Steve Willis. She currently resides in Sydney. In July 2015, the couple announced they are expecting their first child together. Bridges gave birth to a son Axel Bridges Willis on 19 December 2015.[8]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/building-bridges-20140128-31knl.html
  2. 1 2 Milsom, Rosemarie (17 August 2012). "The making of Michelle Bridges". Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Michelle Bridges wins Celebrity MasterChef heat". Herald Sun. 8 October 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Bridges becomes virtual trainer". Herald Sun. 19 August 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  5. ↑ Dudley-Nicholson, Jennifer (18 November 2010). "Microsoft launches Kinect with The Biggest Loser's Michelle Bridges taking centre stage". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  6. ↑ "Bridges breaks up". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 March 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Michelle Bridges and Steve 'Commando' Willis are expecting first baby — it'll be his fourth child". The Daily Telegraph. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
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