Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels Gets Heat for Facebook Post

Jillian Michaels, The Biggest Loser
Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels may want to choose her words a little more carefully when discussing the show's contestants in Facebook posts.
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In a post dated Dec. 30, Michaels wrote: "My baby is FINALLY home. So funny. I never used to care about being away from people I dated. I loved having the space. Now, I seem to count the seconds. Am i getting old and soft? Get a few hours together and then I am off to BL. Monkeys are back on campus. Work to be done."
More than 600 people, many of whom found the term "monkeys" offensive, posted comments on the item.
A rep for NBC told TVGuide.com that the word was simply a "term of endearment."
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