THE BIGGEST LOSER -- Season: 9 -- Pictured: Michael Ventrella -- Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC

In case you missed it, The Biggest Loser finale where Michael Ventrella wins is rerunning tonight on NBC.

It’s was a tough journey for Ventrella who made history on the show Tuesday night by losing a record 264 pounds; that’s the equivalent of two entire people! He started the competition weighing in at 526 pounds and is now down to 262.

The prize for winning was $250 thousand smack a roos, which Ventrella says he’ll use to get out of debt.

“I’m really cleaning up my life in every angle,” he says.

He’s bent on staying healthy too. Ventrella knows that, chances are, he’d be dead fairly quickly had he not shed the fat and he’s still working hard at his fitness regime.

“The finale for The Biggest Loser was Tuesday night, but the finale for my weight-loss is yet to come,” he explains.

THE BIGGEST LOSER -- Season 9 -- Pictured: Mike Ventrella -- NBC Photo: Trae Patton

And as for an possible romance between Ventrella and runner-up contestant Ashley Johnston, well, that hasn’t happened and won’t as far as he’s concerned. They’re new BFFs, but that’s where the relationship stops.

“She’s like my twin, my evil twin, but my twin,” he laughs adding, “We started off this journey feeling the same things, going through the same things. We were both overweight throughout our whole lives. We never knew any different.

“We wanted the best for one another and at the end of the day. We flirt, we joke around, we love getting a rise out of people when they say, ‘Are you guys dating.’ We both sort of giggle. If it ever went past that I think it would ruin it.”

His goals are simple now, especially since the weight-loss. Ventrella wants to do things he never could growing up because of obesity – and theme park rides are at the top of his list.

“I am thinner now and have a smaller waist at 31 than I did when I was like 13 or 14, so I never got to experience what being a kid was,” he confesses. “I want to do that. I’m so excited to spend a couple of days at a theme park, taking all my little cousins out and live it up.”