| Creator: | Cris Abrego[1] Ellen Rakieten |
| Director: | Matt Bordofsky |
| Presenter: | Dan Cortese |
| Composer: | Jude Christodal Adam Zelkind Dan Radlauer |
| Country: | United States |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 10 |
| Executive Producer: | Cris Abrego Ellen Rakieten Ben Samek Matt Odgers Rabih Gholam Jeff Olde Jill Holmes Kristen Kelly |
| Cinematography: | Adrian Pruett |
| Company: | 51 Minds Entertainment Ellen Rakieten Entertainment |
| Channel: | VH1 |
Money Hungry is a reality TV weight loss competition show based on bet dieting, with twelve teams of two competing for a $100,000 prize made up from team contributions.[2]
| Name | Team | Eliminated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| [3] | Mission Slimpossible | ||
| Mission Slimpossible | |||
| [4] | |||
| [5] | Grading Curves | ||
| Grading Curves | |||
| [6] | Slenderellas | ||
| Slenderellas | |||
| [7] | Flabulous | ||
| Flabulous | |||
| [8] | Double Chocolate | ||
| Double Chocolate | |||
| [9] | No Excuses | ||
| [10] | No Excuses | ||
| [11] | Chicago Deep Dish | ||
| [12] | Chicago Deep Dish | ||
| [13] | |||
| [14] [15] | Rocker Moms | ||
| Rocker Moms | |||
| Roll Models | |||
| Roll Models | |||
| [16] | Family Sized | ||
| Family Sized |
| Team | Start Weight | Episodes, New Weight (% Lost/+% if Gain) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1[17] | 2[18] | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Finale | |||
| 508 | 485 (4.5%) | 484 (0.2%) | 475 (1.9%) | 456 (4.0%) | 447 (2.0%) | 438 (2.0%) | 446 (1.8%) | 443 (1.1%) | 422 (3.7%) | 427 (+1.2%) | 406 (20.1%) | ||
| 850 | 816 (4.0%) | 799 (2.1%) | 781 (2.3%) | 780 (0.1%) | 773 (0.9%) | 747 (3.4%) | 747 (0.0%) | 735 (1.1%) | 718 (2.3%) | 707 (1.5%) | 692 (18.6%) | ||
| 502 | 490 (2.4%) | 476 (2.9%) | 467 (1.9%) | 468 (0.2%) | 457 (2.1%) | 450 (1.5%) | 452 (0.4%) | 436 (3.1%) | 433 (0.7%) | 429 (0.9%) | |||
| 615 | 594 (3.4%) | 581 (2.2%) | 574 (1.2%) | 572 (0.4%) | 567 (0.9%) | 572 (0.9%) | 558 (1.6%) | 549 (1.6%) | 540 (-1.6%) | ||||
| 653 | 631 (3.2%) | 624 (1.1%) | 614 (1.6%) | 609 (0.8%) | 606 (0.5%) | 603 (0.5%) | 595 (1.3%) | 593 (0.3%) | |||||
| 451 | 438 (2.9%) | 427 (2.5%) | 423 (0.9%) | 422 (0.2%) | 417 (1.2%) | 415 (0.5%) | 409 (1.5%) | ||||||
| 643 | 619 (3.7%) | 607 (1.9%) | 595 (2.0%) | 590 (0.8%) | 579 (1.9%) | 577 (0.4%) | |||||||
| 460 | 439 (4.6%) | 428 (2.5%) | 423 (1.2%) | 419 (1.0%) | 417 (0.5%) | ||||||||
| 544 | 529 (2.8%) | 525 (0.8%) | 516 (1.7%) | 500 (3.1%) | |||||||||
| 476 | 465 (2.3%) | 456 (1.9%) | 450 (1.3%) | ||||||||||
| 478 | 457 (4.4%) | 446 (2.4%) | |||||||||||
| 623 | 612 (1.8%) |
The team won the competition.
The team was the Big Heavies and was immune from elimination.
The team was saved from elimination by the Big Heavies.
The team lost the challenge and was put up for elimination.
The team received the most votes and was put up for elimination, but lost the most percentage of weight at the weigh-in compared to the others.
The team received the most votes and was eliminated for having lost the least percentage of weight at the weigh-in compared to the others.
The team lost the challenge, was put up for elimination, and was eliminated for having lost the least percentage of weight at the weigh-in compared to the others.
The team had the lowest percentage of weight lost and was eliminated.
Episode 1 - "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is"
First aired 2 August 2010
Our first introduction to the teams, the show opens with the contestants being forced off the cushy bus and made to hike up the hill to the house.
Episode 2 - "All's Fair in Love and Weight Loss"
First aired 9 August 2010
Scheming begins, and a school-boy crush Josh has on Jamie threatens his alliances.
Episode 3 - "Welcome to the Family"
First aired 16 August 2010
After half the house (Slimpossible, Nuts, Chicago, Grading and Rocker Moms) bands together as "The Orphanage", the other half counters and becomes "The Family".
Episode 4 - "Bust a Move"
First aired 23 August 2010
Tempers flare and things get heated when the Regulators and Mission Slimpossible get physical.
Episode 5 - "The Way The Cookie Crumbles"
First aired 30 August 2010No house vote this week leads everyone to butter up to the Big Heavies, who turn the tables by saving no one, and Josh turns his affections toward Stephanie.
Episode 6 - "The Puzzle Master"
First aired 6 September 2010
The teams are thrown a curve when the week's challenge is not only physical, but mental as well.
Episode 7 - "This Means War"
First aired 13 September 2010
The joy of being at the Rose Bowl stadium is diminished by the challenge: running up and down the stairs, transporting 100 footballs. Alliances shift as teams claim deals were made earlier.
Episode 8 - "A Kitty With 9 Lives"
First aired 20 September 2010
Another puzzle throws off some of the teams. Phillip plays both sides to try and save his team from elimination.
Episode 9 - "Photo Finish"
First aired 27 September 2010
One team attempts to vote themselves into the bottom in order to eliminate another.
Episode 10 - "The Ultimate Weigh-In" and Finale
First aired 4 October 2010
In the final challenge, Tricia suffers an injury that puts Grading Curves out of the running. In a surprise gesture of team solidarity, Mission Slimpossible (after getting it back along with the Regulators) give their entry fee to Grading Curves.
Families gather as the last two teams weigh in and the winner is decided.
| Contestants | Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Finale | |||
| 1 | SAFE | HIGH | WIN | LOW | SAFE | LOW | WIN | WIN | SAFE | WIN | WINNERS | ||
| 2 | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | WIN | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | RUNNER-UP | ||
| 3 | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | HIGH | SAFE | WIN | OUT | |||
| 4 | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | WIN | LOW | LOW | OUT | ||||
| 5 | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | HIGH | SAFE | OUT | |||||
| 6 | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | HIGH | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||
| 7 | SAFE | SAFE | LOW | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | |||||||
| 8 | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||
| 9 | SAFE | WIN | HIGH | OUT | |||||||||
| 10 | SAFE | SAFE | OUT | ||||||||||
| 11 | SAFE | OUT | |||||||||||
| 12 | OUT | ||||||||||||
| Team | Starting Weight | Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Finale | ||||
| 508 | -23 | -1 | -9 | -19 | -9 | -9 | +8 | +5 | -16 | +5 | -11 | |||
| 850 | -34 | -17 | -18 | -1 | -7 | -26 | 0 | -11 | -17 | -11 | -15 | |||
| 502 | -12 | -14 | -9 | +1 | -11 | -7 | +2 | -14 | -3 | -4 | ||||
| 615 | -21 | -13 | -7 | -2 | -5 | +5 | -9 | -9 | -9 | |||||
| 653 | -22 | -7 | -10 | -5 | -3 | -3 | -8 | -2 | ||||||
| 451 | -13 | -11 | -4 | -1 | -5 | -2 | -6 | |||||||
| 643 | -24 | -12 | -12 | -5 | -11 | -2 | ||||||||
| 460 | -21 | -11 | -5 | -4 | -2 | |||||||||
| 544 | -15 | -4 | -9 | -16 | ||||||||||
| 476 | -11 | -9 | -6 | |||||||||||
| 478 | -21 | -9 | ||||||||||||
| 623 | -11 |