Anna Kournikova will be joining The Biggest Loser

Anna Kournikova and Dolvett Quince will be joining The Biggest Loser's veteran trainer Bob Harper as new trainers when The Biggest Loser's twelfth season premieres tonight at 8PM ET/PT. Kournikova and Quince will be replacing former trainers Jillian Michaels, Brett Hoebel and Cara Castronuova and, along with Harper, guiding 15 contestants competing in a "Battle of the Ages" format in which contestants will be grouped by age for the first time in The Biggest Loser history.

Anna Kournikova: Well the fact is that I treated my body as a tool my whole life to be able to perform on the tennis court and to be a professional athlete. I've worked with the best psychologist sports psychologist, the best nutritionists, the best trainer, the best coaches.
 

An official announcement regarding Kournikova's role on 'Biggest Loser' is...
expected after the show's season finale on Tuesday. Kournikova, who recently put her $9.4 million Miami mansion on the market, is certainly no stranger in the fitness world. A tennis player all her life, she debuted at the U.S. Open when she was just 15 years old and was named ESPN's Hottest Female Athlete in 2002.


Kournikova will join new trainers Cara Castronuova and Brett Hoebel as the show undergoes major changes in the wake of Jillian Michaels' departure from the hit show, X17 Online reports. Michaels announced her decision to leave last year in order to focus on starting a family.