WINNER OF NBC’S ‘THE BIGGEST LOSER: FAMILIES’ REVEALED IN MUST-SEE LIVE FINALE ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 (8-10 P.M. ET)

Plus, Third Finalist Determined By America’s Vote Will Be Revealed In First Few Minutes Of Finale!

And Special Interactive Feature Allows Viewers A Chance to Win $10,000 And A “Biggest Loser” Prize Pack!

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. The winner of NBC’s hit series “The Biggest Loser: Couples” will be revealed in an exciting, two-hour live finale on Tuesday, December 16 (8-10 p.m. ET). And the contestant who won America’s vote to be the third place finalist will be revealed at the top of the show. Plus, the finale will feature an exciting interactive component that allows viewers the chance to win $10,000 and the ultimate “Biggest Loser” prize pack!

In this season six finale, all eight teams of families will return for a special reunion and a chance to weigh in one last time and show America how much weight they’ve lost since the beginning of their weight-loss journeys. The transformations will be profound, not just for the finalists but also for the eliminated contestants who all continued to lose weight after they left the “Biggest Loser” ranch and returned home.

In last week’s episode airing Tuesday, December 9, there were four finalists left. At the final weigh in, Michelle Aguilar (Fort Worth, TX) from trainer Jillian Michaels’ black team and Vicky Vilcan (Houma, LA) from trainer Bob Harper’s blue team both came in above the yellow line, earning the highest percentage of weight loss for the week and securing their spots as two of the three finalists competing for the $250,000 grand prize.

In an interesting twist, husband and wife Ed Brantley and Heba Salama (Raleigh, NC) from Harper’s blue team fell below the yellow line, leaving America to choose between the spouses to determine which one will be the third finalist by voting via phone or online at www.nbc.com. Online voting runs through Monday, December 15, at noon PT.

America’s vote will be revealed in the first part of the live finale, and then the eliminated player will weigh in with the other 12 eliminated contestants to compete for the $100,000 “at home” prize. Then it’s the moment viewers have been waiting for, when one of the three finalists will be named this season’s “Biggest Loser” and win the coveted grand prize of $250,000.

The live finale will also include a special interactive component that will start during the “Biggest Loser” finale and end in “Momma’s Boys,” the new series premiering on NBC from 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET right after the finale. Viewers will be shown before/after pictures of three past season contestants, and vote via text or online at www.nbc.com for which contestant they think has had the best transformation. The previous season contestant who wins the most votes will be announced at the end of “Momma’s Boys” and viewers will see what the winning contestant looks like today. Two at-home viewers, one on the east coast and one on the west coast, will be randomly selected from those who voted to each receive $10,000 and a “Biggest Loser” ultimate prize pack, plus have their name shown on screen live at the end of “Momma’s Boys.”

The live finale will also include a special sneak preview of season 7 of the hit weight loss series. “The Biggest Loser: Couples” will premiere Tuesday, January 6 (8-10 p.m. ET) on NBC.

On last week’s episode Renee’s elimination in the previous week left Michelle as the last black team member still on the ranch. While she was distressing over separating with her mother, Vicky, Heba, and Ed celebrated being in the final four. The trainers took the contestants to various spots on the ranch, to help them reflect on how far they’ve come over the past 12 weeks. Afterwards, Alison showed them a package which contained the clothing which the contestants wore upon first arrival at the ranch. All of the contestants chose to burn this clothing, promising never to return to their original physical condition.

When Vicky told Bob that she had learned a lot about nutrition, she also stated that she did not learn anything about herself. Bob told her that Ryan (the winner of the first season) now weighs at least as much as he did when he first started the show, if not more. Ryan began the show weighing 330 pounds, and lost 122 pounds, or 37% of his body weight back in 2004.

The final weekly challenge involved a reflection upon their past weekly weight losses. The contestants had to run around a race track, carrying the exact number of pounds they’ve lost since arriving on campus. They each wore various articles of weighted clothing, and after each lap, dropped a piece representing their weight-loss for the corresponding week. They had to run eleven laps, representing the eleven weeks the contestants had been on campus. Michelle and Ed were nearly tied the entire race, but after eleven laps, Ed ultimately emerged victorious and won the Biggest Loser meal plan, along with $10,000.

At the penultimate weigh-in, Michelle lost 9 lbs putting her in first place for the second time and guaranteeing herself a spot in the “Final 3″ along with Vicky, who dropped 6 lbs. Heba lost 7 lbs and Ed gained 2 lbs, putting them both below the yellow line. But in a surprising twist, Ali revealed that instead of the contestants making this decision, it would be up to the American public to vote (similar to season 5).

In the confessional, Ed asked that people vote for his wife, Heba, instead of him, saying that she deserved it more than he did, while Heba asked the people to vote for her.