article_snippet: A spokeswoman for NBC declined to comment.
article_snippet: Hibbard also told the New York Post that '[The trainers] would say things to contestants like, "You’re going die before your children grow up."
article_snippet: One production assistant told a contestant to take up smoking because smoking would cut Hibbard appetite in half.'
article_snippet: At the time, NBC told the Post 'NBC contestants are closely monitored and medically supervised.