Jillian Michaels is known for being the buff hottie strength-training coach on reality show snooze-fest "The Biggest Loser". Happily, watching fat people be humiliated on national TV is not the only way to catch Jillian on your television! She has released a bunch of DVD training videos titled The Biggest Winner.
Michaels is not merely the latest in a long line of "trainers to the stars" to find celebrity herself - she is set apart by being an absolute knockout. In an interview at iVillage she gives some information on her background:
I got into martial arts. And when I was 17 years old, I graduated high school early and started out on my own. In order to make money, I was training people, and I trained people from about 17 to 23, all the way through school. Of course, being in Los Angeles, your natural inclination is to get into the entertainment industry. I became a motion picture literary agent at ICM, which is a big talent agent which happens to represent me now, ironically.
Actually, it's not ironic, and normally I'd expect a (former) literary agent to properly differentiate between "irony" and "coincidence". However, she was a "motion picture literary agent", which I think justifies giving her a pass. But never mind all that, because the point of this post is that she's really hot and makes workout videos. Also, if I make fun of her she might beat me up, and while some of you dirty boys might actually fantasize about something like that, I don't. (I really don't like getting beat up, and I mean that completely un-ironically.)
Jillian Michaels' videos are available at Amazon.com. You should buy them for the women in your life because Jillian is a tough, muscular beauty and some of that might rub off on women who watch her videos. And if anyone asks, that's your alibi.
a) Wow, she's hot.
b) If you look at the wikipedia entry you will see there are a bewildering number of ways to define irony. I'd say one can definitely make a case for this situation. At least it's nowhere near as thin as "rain on your wedding day."
Lingster
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2006-04-10 01:49:18
The only thing ironic about the song "Isn't it Ironic?" is the total absence of irony in the song. Coincidence does not equal irony.
RobW
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2006-04-10 12:11:10
Australians are currently lucky enough to have Ms Michaels on their TV screens 5 nights a week as one of the trainers on Biggest Loser Australia. *I* watch it as an affirmation of the human ability to overcome physicial limitations. My *wife* however, watches it because Bob is hot. :grin
RobW - Searching for a knife at the spoon factory.
skinnyguy
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2006-04-16 22:33:36
I am going to have to watch this show. :grin
Petechons
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2006-04-19 19:08:26
[QUOTE]The only thing ironic about the song "Isn't it Ironic?" is the total absence of irony in the song.[/QUOTE]
Yes, and believe it or not, Morisette herself has nullsaid so. I still have my reservations about the song, even if she's being absolutely honest, because too many young people were bound to learn their definition of irony from that song.
And my point was precisely that Jillian's use of the word "irony" is nowhere near as inappropriate as Alanis's.
And technically you're right. That is indeed one of the proper definitions of irony (though again, I reiterate, that even if one sticks to proper definitions, there are many widely varying forms of irony). But for the majority of people the "grim" part of irony is not mandatory.
I know I can be totally anal about the definitions of words, so it is perhaps hypocritical (or even ironic?) for me to quibble with you here, but to me critiquing Michael's loose use of the word "irony" is like decrying the use of "schizophrenic" to mean "having a split personality; exhibiting mutually contradictory behaviors." I mean, ask any psychologist, that is not what schizophrenic means! :p
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