She then went on to take over space at a local squash court along with her personal trainer Tash Sheehy and taught classes there.

Months later, she found herself in the local court room facing down her attacker and enduring a fierce cross-examination from his lawyer, who quizzed her on what sort of clothes she had been wearing and how short her skirt had been.

She describes herself as "a bit of a foodie" and won the second heat with her signature dish of Moroccan spiced lamb with eggplant and currant couscous, beating performer Kathleen de Leon Jones and journalist Peter FitzSimons to continue in the competition.

In August 2013 her apparel was launched on the BIG W website and in September 2013 she established a licence agreement to also sell kitchenware with the retail chain.

In 2010, Ubisoft brought Bridges to Canada to help develop the weight loss segments of their product Your Shape: Fitness Evolved.

The company used motion capture to create an avatar of Bridges to appear in the game, which will use the Kinect technology.

[13] Bridges married fitness trainer and gym owner Bill Moore, who later became her business manager, in 2003.

The couple separated in May 2013[14] and Bridges began dating fellow Biggest Loser trainer Steve Willis.

[16] On 26 January 2020, Bridges pleaded guilty to mid-range drink-driving after being caught behind the wheel of her 4WD with her five-year-old son in the car.