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The scoop Break out the heart monitors! In the reality battle’s fourth season premiere, eight more chubby celebrities — including Family Ties alum Tina Yothers, singer Carnie Wilson, The Sopranos’ Vincent Pastore, Love Boat bartender Ted Lange, soul mama Angie Stone and, sigh, Baywatch babe Erika Eleniak — team up to lose the largest amount of flab over 100 days of diet and fitness. The winning foursome share a $150,000-plus prize. (VH1, 9 p.m.)
Why tune in? The stars’ honesty and motivation is downright inspiring. Eleniak tearfully confides she wants to get fit for her newborn, while Pastore says he was rushed into triple-bypass heart surgery after a preshow physical last year. “They told me my heart was about to burst,” says Pastore. And Wilson is a walking reminder that there are no quick fixes. Seven years after her famed gastric bypass, she admits, “I’m struggling.”