Ruben Studdard certainly made a name for himself as the Velvet Teddy Bear after winning “American Idol.”
Ruben, who landed a spot on Dolvett Quince’s team after the trio of “Loser” trainers made their casting picks, needed to cool down following his first intense day in the gym. To do so, he stripped off his shirt and got comfortable in an ice bath.
“The ice baths are Jesus in a steel container!” he smiled. But Jillian looked on, and she didn’t find the sight so heavenly.
“We’re going to have to wax that back of yours, I’m telling you right now,” she said, clearly put off by the amount of hair on display. But The Hirsute Teddy Bear wasn’t having it.
“Let me tell you something, baby. That’s the real man in me,” Ruben said. “You understand me?”
She did not. Instead, she deemed it “totally unacceptable.
“Jillian is a hater,” the man who won the second season of “American Idol” told the camera. “I don’t appreciate that. You know, I think everything about Ruben Studdard is sexy.”
He then went on to caution Jillian and some of his female fellow contestants that they’ve “womanized men” by bullying them into going bare. Ruben says he is really focused this season on losing pounds.
“The Biggest Loser” returns next Tuesday at 8p.m. on NBC.
