On last night's weigh in on The Biggest Loser, Dan Evans shocked his team (and himself) when he only lost 1 pound.  He fell below the yellow line along with his teammate, Jay Kruger.  The blue team was forced to send one of its members home, a very tough decision for them.  Though Dan seemed surprised as his low number at the weigh in, he did choose to eat at the reward challenge, eating bites of pretzels, popcorn, and hot dogs.  He was sent home and joined his mother, Jackie, who was eliminated weeks earlier.  Dan has since moved to L.A. and spends all of his time focusing on losing weight and pursuing a music career.  Today, he spoke to BuddyTV in an exclusive interview.

Below, you will find the complete transcript and mp3 of the interview.

Hey everybody, this is Gina from BuddyTV, and today I'm talking to Dan from NBC's The Biggest Loser. What has this been like since you left The Biggest Loser? Doing interviews and being in the media spotlight, are you getting adjusted to it?

You know, ever since I was a little kid I've always been a fan of the spotlight, so I feel comfortable in it. I kind of like it. As the youngest of three boys I always tried to be the center of attention. It's a dream come true for me.


We saw on last night's episode that you moved out to L.A. and you're pursuing your music career. How is that going for you?

It is going so, so well. I went home after being eliminated and I was like, you know, it's time for me to just start pursuing my dreams and just going for it. The thing is, I never want to live by regrets and say, "If I would have, if I could have." So I packed up my car and just headed out here and haven't left. Basically what I do is I work out all day long, and if I'm not working out then I'm working on my music. The two most important things to me right now are losing weight for the finale and pursuing my dreams of music. I've met some great people out here, and I've actually been in the studio doing some recording. I just released my first single online. It's been an awesome, awesome thing for me.


Whose idea was it to do The Biggest Loser together? Was it yours idea or was it your mom's?

It was so weird, because I tried out for season 4. I didn't make it, I was very close, they flew me out, and I just didn't make it. I wasn't the right one for that season, for what they were trying to do. But they called me back for season 5, and I was like, "Well, you guys broke my heart last year, I don't know if I can go through that again," because there's no guarantees when they call you. They were like, "Well here's a twist: this time it's duos, it's partners. You've gotta find somebody." I thought oh my goodness, you've got to be kidding me. I told my mom, I'm like, "Mom, what do we do? We've gotta find somebody." My mom was the one who was helping me go through the entire process before, and I didn't even consider her. Then all of a sudden it kind of clicked for both of us, what if we did this together? I called them back, I was like, "I've got a partner. I've got somebody who'd be perfect." And they were like, "Who is it?" And I said, "My mom." They're like, "A mother and son! We'll be in Chicago next week, we want to meet you guys." From then on out, the interview went great, we sent in our tape, did little phone interviews, applications, all that stuff. The next thing we knew, we were on the ranch with the trainers and just living The Biggest Loser life.


You and your mom have a really great relationship. I was wondering if the show changed your relationship at all or strengthened it? Have you two always been so close?

Me and my mom have always been like friends. She's just a good friend of mine. I'm the baby of the family, kind of a little bit of the momma's boy thing. We'd hang out, we'd go out to dinner together, and we would just hang out. I have my own friends, over the weekend I'd do my own thing, but I always made plenty of time for my mom. It changed a lot when we went to The Biggest Loser. It changed our relationship so much because we were both just going through this journey together. It's a wild thing, because when we were back home we would go out to eat together, and we were enabling each other. We'd both go to Olive Garden, or go out for the big Italian food dinner and eat, but we both wanted to change so bad. When we got to the ranch, I was nervous that we would both maybe remind each other of old habits. That wasn't the case at all. We were both enabling each other positively. It was all, "I want to go to the gym, do you want to come?" "Yeah, let's go to the gym together." "Hey, what are you making for dinner? Let's have a nice chicken salad," or whatever you know. We were both excited to help each other because we wanted each other to succeed so bad. I think ever since then, me and my mom have just had this really cool, interesting new level of our relationship. It's a mother-son relationship of going through something so dramatic together.

On last night's episode, you talked about being The Biggest Loser at home. How confident are you feeling going into the live finale?

I moved out here to L.A. as you know, and I am working out a lot. I'm literally working out five, six hours a day, which is almost comparable to what we were doing back at the ranch. I want it bad. I wanted to be The Biggest Loser, and that didn't work out, things change, but I'm still going for this. I'm giving it all I got. I'm giving it hell, I'll tell you that much.


We just wanted to wish you good luck at the finale, and with your music career. I hope everything works out for you Dan.

Thank you so much.

- Gina Scarpa, BuddyTV Staff Writer
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