Following an emotionally charged second season, Bravo’s docu-series, Work Out starts its highly-anticipated third season, catching up with fitness maverick, Jackie Warner as she prepares to tackle her personal relationships and business endeavors with a newfound maturity. The third season introduces the four skilled trainers Warner recently hired at her exclusive Beverly Hills gym Sky Sport & Spa, and her new live-in love, Brianna.
Last season, she was reeling from a breakup with her toxic girlfriend, Mimi, and the unexpected death of one of her beloved trainers, Doug Blasdell. She also came to terms with her father’s suicide and made strides in reconciling with her conservative mother, who does not approve of her lifestyle. All the while she was juggling the increasing demands of her business and building her new Skylab venture, a high-end spa/fitness experience for overweight clients who want to change their minds, bodies and overall health.
This season follows Jackie as she takes on even bigger challenges with Skylab, films a workout DVD and continues to build Sky Sport & Spa with her new team of trainers.
These days, it seems Jackie barely has time to sit down and read her email. So, it was a nice break for both of us when she sat down to talk to me about the show and everything else she has going on in her life.

In the last two seasons, you have been very open about the issues and the ultimate ending of your previous relationship. Were you concerned about starting a new relationship that publicly?
Yes. It’s pretty much a death certificate for a relationship, especially when you are dating someone who’s younger and who hasn’t experienced anything like this. I knew that we had a 50/50 chance, because of the stress of the show, the time constraint that it puts on me and just the various things that come up for people because of the show. It’s hard—hard on the relationship. I actually don’t know many relationships that do well under the light of the camera in a reality series. I can barely name one. I think that you are just going to see a very honest portrayal of what kind of occurs with the stress of the show.
How did you meet Brianna and did she really move in after the first date?
We met at Dinah Shore. I was hired to do sort of a promotional thing there, and we saw each other and kind of connected immediately. And yes, she did. It was kind of funny. Unfortunately, she was ending one relationship and moving right into a relationship with me, so that’s not the best way to start a relationship. I’ve never done that before, I’ve never dated somebody that still had ties to somebody else, and it led to us kind of being forced to move a little bit too fast, and in the three to four months that it takes to learn about and get know somebody, we were already living together. It was just, you know, I was trying to provide a need. She needed a place to live and we kind of fell for each other head over heels very fast, so, but I wasn’t thinking it through. Neither one of us were, really.
How is the relationship with your mom and how did she handle the whole Brianna switch?
She was fantastic. She really, really, was. Every year she’s growing leaps and bounds and we’re growing together leaps and bounds. We have a great relationship now, and she discovered texting and that changed our world because now we text all the time and it’s really cute and it’s the way I like to communicate with people, so she’s on it and she got the texting feature just so she could communicate with me and so now it’s really opened up our relationship.