Category — Beauty and The Geek

Lachlan really had a win win time on Beauty and the Geek, he won the girl as well as the game.

Sarah and Lachlan will get to share the $100,000 first prize.

Jordan and him were not the only ones to find love, as Mackenzie and Troy announced their engagement. Seriously they really are dumb they got engaged and they had only been going about three months. Bet they don’t make it down the aisle.

It is unusual in a finale to not care who won, this was not out of ambivalence but the fact I liked all the geeks, and most of the beauties.

The first challenge was a school report card one with a science, home economics and physical education task. The PE involved a swimming pole so the producers could get the beauties in swimmers, and the geeks in budgie smugglers. Gilbert does have a rocking body.

After this Mackenzie and Jimmy were eliminated due to the fact that he refused to jump off the three metre board.

The next challenge was the prom where they had to dance and there was a set up kissing booth. I am not sure why Lachlan was so worried about getting his braces caught with another girl with braces, as he had his lips well and truly clamped shut.

After this challenge Gilbert and Jacelle were eliminated.

Then it was to the elimination room where it went to a decider. Jordan blew it on the question of how tall was Julian. Jordan still got the consolation prize of still going out with Lachlan and he was now $50,000 richer.

One aspect of the show which is great is that it did appear to give this crop of geeks a lot more confidence and I can see Jimmy cutting a swathe through the ladies.

Were you happy with the winner?

A three and half year online relationship?  This needs to be discussed. If you have been communicating online that length of time wouldn’t one of you get on a plane to at least check the person out?

There are cheap flights to Amsterdam at the moment on Garuda OK it involves a few stops, but something I would be willing to do to consummate a relationship of over three years.

Even Jimmy found it a bit strange. Do you have an obligation to be monogamous with someone you have not met? Or even if they have, after this length of time you would think they would be considering living in the same country or at least the same continent.

Anyway poor Jimmy after declaring he liked her slunk away, he had been rejected for a cyber boyfriend. Maybe he is a step up from her previous one who was in The Sims.

Tonight the first challenge the geeks having to look at a not very attractive peroxide blonde. However they were probably not looking at her face as she was naked. They had to draw her, as she lay there gibbering away. And that was the trick the test was not about the drawing but whether they had listened to her.

Gilbert is a bit of a Renaissance Man who did a really great drawing but he was first to be eliminated for not getting the girls name correct.

Jimmy ended up winning the challenge so was safe for next week’s finale.

The other challenge was the beauties had to be dressed by the geeks as something that was iconic to London. Jackie Frank and Sonia Kruger were the judges were pretty bemused by it all. Jordan won as she did a great impersonation of Hermione.

In the end Lachlan and Sarah, and Helen and Troy were nominated for elimination.

Helen was asked to name the three Kardashian sisters, in fact there are five so it would have been interesting to see what would have occurred if she had named one of the teen girls.

Also Lachlan got lucky and was asked a political question which he answered easily as he is interested in politics. Also he was asked about the lyrics of the Helen Reddy classic “I Am Woman”. If he had ever been to a Labor Party Karoke fundraiser those lyrics would have been seared into his brain.

In the end Helen and Troy were eliminated, which made me wonder why was Sarah crying in her pieces to camera at the end of the episode?

It is becoming obligatory that there is a spa scene on the show. Gilbert was the star of it tonight with Jacelle and Sarah as the support cast.

Tonight the other geeks came back for their make overs and the other geeks were making them over. Obviously hair is thought of as geeky in the Gen Y generation as there was waxing and plucking. Also fake tans and  I hope there was a hairdresser on set to fix up the bodgy haircuts.

However the best one was Adam the remote area meteorologist. He actually looked hot. No surprise that Jimmy won the challenge with this make over.

Also previously Jacelle had won the sheep mathematics challenge so her and Gilbert were safe. But the twist was all teams were safe as they had to nominate which team should come back in. I thought it was not fair that Theo couldn’t get back in because he did not have a partner. Jacelle had come back in when Maddie had quit.

Gilbert and Jacelle nominated Colin and Gaia, and Jimmy and Mackenzie obviously nominated Helen and Troy. Helen and Troy won their way back in. So the romance between Mackenzie and Troy will be back on. As is Lachlan and Jordan’s after a particularly badly acted scene at the start of the episode.

However it looks like next week Jimmy puts his heart on the line with Helen. I think she might crush it as doesn’t she go out with a Sudoku champion.

What type of guy does Jordan normally go out with they must be pretty bad as she was stoked by the dinner date Lachlan had arranged.

“No one has ever gone to that amount of effort” exclaimed Jordan to Lachlan as they sat down to a meal of cheeseburger and fries, with cola in a champagne glass. I think he might have thrown in a caramel sundae as well. Obviously product placement since it looked stone cold and there was no shots of them actually eating it.

It does appear the Jordan and Lachlan romance is well and truly on, and that the Gilbert and Dolly one is dead in the water. Maddy in an interview with TV Week said Dolly was faking it with Gilbert to try and extend her life on the show. (See blog post here)

The first challenge for the night was the girls having to spell difficult words. When they got it wrong the boys would be electrically shocked. To be honest I thought this challenge was a bit stupid, and the electrical voltage was described as unpleasant but not painful, so what was the point. For the record I didn’t want to see them tasered either.

All the girls got the words wrong except for Mackenzie and Sarah in the first round, and Mackenzie won when she spelt gigabyte right.

The next challenge was for the girls to build bicycle with a side car. Depending on what order they finished it decided how heavy the biker in the side car would be.

Bendeguz was going well and then his bike collapsed, but there was no way anyone was going to beat the muscled up Gilbert. Though Lachlan did come a close second.

However there was one more  curveball to be thrown at the teams. You could save yourself from immunity if the geek got his beauty’s name tattooed him. Lachlan after querying where it had to go stepped forward to have it done. He got Lachlan & Sarah tattooed on his butt. Sarah was overcome with emotion when she saw it and Jimmy said ” Does this mean your kids need to be called Sarah and Lachlan?”

Jimmy is actually does stand up comedy as a hobby so that explains why his so funny.

Anyway Jordan was devastated that he got another girls name tattooed him, and told him he was worse then all the other guys that had treated her like shit. The ones that only bought her pies at the footy – sorry I made the pie bit up.

She said “I didn’t expect it from him”. What she was actually saying was “this guy is a fucking geek, you would have thought he would be treating me like a Goddess,”. The scene looked a bit made up as Lachlan did not look upset at all about being kicked to the kerb by Jordan.

Julian and Jordan, and Bendeguz and Dolly were up for elimination. Bendeguz and Dolly got the hard questions like what is a palendrome, and what is the letter J worth in scrabble, so they must have been the pair the producers wanted to go.

I have not been a fan of Bendeguz’s as he is so over the top, maybe if you are not authentic on reality shows, viewers just know it. For all his promise of being great reality tv viewing he never lived up to the hype.

Last week, Maddy who was partner to Gilbert, left the show. TV WEEK got the story on why she did.

The article states:

After weeks of filming in freezing conditions and working exhausting hours on Beauty and The Geek, feisty contestant Maddy became so ill she decided there was no other option but to dramatically pull out of the competition.

Audiences saw the shock exit on Thursday and now the straight-shooting beauty tells TV WEEK she had to choose wellbeing over winning as her health deteriorated to an all-time low.

“I had glandular fever, ” the 20-year-old confides. “I was in hospital [after the show] because I was so sick, I was put on a drip [after being] so rundown.”

Before entering the competition, the NSW cheerleader was fighting off a common cold, but once she started the gruelling filming schedule, her body didn’t have a chance to heal at all.

It explains why Maddy wasn’t forthcoming when it came to discussing certain things in the house with her partner, Gilbert, or the others. In fact, she often came across as rude.

“We were filming in the middle of winter and we had to make out like it was summer, so being outside at 3 am in tiny little dresses didn’t really help the situation at all,” she admits.

Being aware that people were taking the competition seriously, she knew she had to say goodbye to her partner, Gilbert, if he was going to have a real chance of taking top prize.

“I thought if someone else can do a better job, then they deserve to be here and Jacelle was the perfect candidtate [to replace me].”

After a few weeks of rest she is now back on her feet and glued to the show to see how things panned out since her departure – but not before letting us know that not everyone is showing their true colours in the house!

She also talks about who is playing the game

“Julian played the game from the start – he was always just under the radar. He is such a smart guy.”

…..secret romances

“Jimmy and Helen slept in the same bed a couple of times. We tried to talk to Jimmy about it, but he would just say. ‘Helen is a really lovely girl.’ There was definitely something there [and] we didn’t know until the end that Helen had a boyfriend.”

……..and fake ones

“Mackenzie and I tried to talk some sense into Gilbert about his relationship with Dolly. He didn’t believe that [she] was conniving girl, but we could see straight through her. I told him she was only doing it to stay on the show.”

 

All episode I was watching for the shagging scene between Lachlan and Jordan, but all we got was a very tepid kiss between Dolly and Gilbert. I am not convinced she does have the hots for him.

However I don’t think Gilbert needs to worry about whether Dolly likes him or not. As after his make over where he revealed he had a six pack and some solid biceps he is going to have the girls flocking to him. He was a cutie, if it was not for the slight speech impediment you would not have known they were the same person.

No wonder he was excited about losing his “angry pirate or paddle pop lion” look.

Jimmy was another one who had a miracle makeover. On Twitter @kellymhall thought he looked like a modern James Dean, I thought he looked a bit like Jim Carey from The Truman Show.

After last week’s make over where poor Lachlan was sprayed bright orange and given that dreadful hair cut this week the styling team redeemed themselves.

Bendeguz however was not so keen. He was freaking out about the moustache going and being remade into a biker. He looked a bit psycho in is new persona. He appears to be a very intense person.

Julian was turned into a skater boy, and he looked really cute. Jordan said “Watch out girls”.

But the make overs were not the only shock for the evening Maddy left the house because of ill health. Apparently she has been ill since she came in the house. Jacelle who was the last beauty eliminated was back in to partner Gilbert.

The challenges were the guys designing costumes for the girls superhero persona. Jordy Jordy Bang Bang deservedly won even with the boob tube as a skirt. The guys challenge was doing “the full monty” which Gilbert won easily.

By the way has Jimmy got a crush on Helen? He was having a very intense conversation with her about how she was not only one of his favourites in the house, but outside the house as well.

Both of them were nominated with their respective partners, Troy and Mackenzie, so finally the love birds were going to be separated.

Helen and Troy were eliminated, this was because Helen was given a near impossible question to answer, about which was the most expensive Broadway show ever made. Not wanting to whip up a conspiracy theory but considering the other questions asked it appeared they wanted Jimmy and Mackenzie to stay.

Clearly Jordan liked Lachlan’s orange fake tan from last week’s make over  session, as news is he has lost his virginity to her.

The Daily Telegraph says Jordan who is very lovely told Kyle and Jackie O that Lachlan was the first virgin she had slept with. She also thought it was quite nice.

Not sure if by popping a geek cherry for the show means she gets some sort of bonus. In fact the article does not reveal when it occurred.

Also the article doesn’t reveal if they are still together. I hope so as they make a cute couple. I hope we see more of Jordan on our screens after the show finishes. She is a sweetie.

UPDATE: Just found the interview which I put up above, they did lose their virginity in the house, and they are still together.

Well I have lost all sympathy for Jimmy and Gilbert they had the opportunity to flick their beauties, Mackenzie and Maddy, and they did not.

The geeks got to have dates with other geeks, and then they were given the opportunity to swap their beauties for the geeks. Not one of them did. So beauty is indeed more prized by guys than brains.

Gilbert and Maddy do not get on and Gilbert whose facial expression is usually deadpan was extremely animated throughout his date. It was disappointing to see he stuck with Maddy.

The same as Jimmy. Mackenzie is now Troy’s girlfriend so Jimmy should have gone with geek girl Alana. Some of the girls were quite attractive, twitter was wildly speculating that the geeks were not real.

Now the other talking point of the episode was Lachlan and Helen’s make overs. They turned Lachlan orange, plucked and dyed his eyebrows. Jordan thought he looked hot, but was it really an improvement?

Helen’s hair was fabulous and she looked great, the clothes were frumpy, fifties style.

Lachlan and Helen won the make overs because they were the top two teams in the photography challenge. All couples had to pose together and the winner would win their picture on the flip cover of Famous magazine.

This challenge gave a lot of opportunities for set up scenes, something which is very obvious in Beauty and The Geek. First Sarah and Lachlan dressed as Adam and Eve, and low and behold a snake was procured which was Sarah’s biggest fear.

Also the scene where Bendeguz revealed he had smaller shorts on under another pair it seemed not very spontaneous.

Sarah and Lachlan won, however I thought Julian and Jordan’s photo was much better. Which photo did you like the best?

One thing that disturbs me about this show is that the geeks seem to like the girls who are attractive but vacuous. What type of role model is this to girls watching? Even weedy nerds think these girls are interesting. Is beauty a better trait to have then brains in women? Does it get you further?

I suppose the proof will be in the pudding in next week’s show where the opportunity arises for the geeks to swap the beauties for geek girls.

In the preview Mackenzie whines to Jimmy “Your going to get rid of me for a girl you have known for 30 minutes”.

Hopefully Jimmy will say ” Yes I am, because I will have more chance of getting laid with her, and you are shagging the himbo Troy!”

But alas he won’t.

Speaking of painful conversations tonight there was one between Gilbert and Dolly. It appears to be obligatory each season for a geek to declare to a beauty that he likes her, and she replies “I think your nice but I don’t want to shag you” or something like you.

Gilbert was a star tonight in the cheerleading challenge, in fact if  his face had shown some emotion he and Maddy might have won. Though Gilbert was more animated then the professional cheerleading judges.

However this challenge went to Lachlan, whose face was more animated then his body, and Sarah. However Sarah did do a very smooth jump up onto Lachlan’s shoulders.

Another highlight of the cheerleading challenge was Helen and Troy. She had her leg in a brace and he just did not have the moves at all.

The other challenge was the beauties teaching a class about science. There was a fake scene where one of the boy kids pretended he was going to throw up in the anatomy lecture by one of the beauties.

Jordan and Julian won because they exploded a volcano full of paint on themselves. The props department out did themselves.

Jordan and Julian nominated Bendeguz and Dolly, and Lachlan and Sarah nominated Theo and Jacelle.

Theo stuffed up his questions, but he again got the harder ones and they were gone. I had been hoping Bendeguz would be flicked his entertainment value is low.

When Mackenzie was telling her geek Jimmy that she would not go near Troy if it was going to upset him may not have been entirely true, as the Sunday Telegraph has reported they maybe engaged.

Well that is if their Facebook pages are correct.

The article states:

In the new series of Channel 7′s Beauty and the Geek, the beauties – buff jock Troy Thompson and brunette beauty Mackenzie Gogo Smits – have fallen for each other.

The hook-up is sad news for Mackenzie’s partner on the show, Jimmy, who had initially been doted on by the busty glamour model before she set her sights on Troy, a chiselled, 21-year-old topless waiter from Sydney.

Sorry for the spoiler but the couple have taken to Facebook to declare their love for each other, announcing they are engaged.

That revelation is already proving a hot topic on the show’s online forums.

Beauty and the Geek is only a couple of weeks into airing.

However, the producers wrapped production on the Seven series about three weeks ago. So they’ll be wanting desperately to keep this one under wraps.

Troy and Mackenzie pashed on last week’s show after he scored her an 8.4 out of 10. Funny, though, that he’d scored another beauty, Sarah, a nine.

If they breed their kids are not going to be too bright. However it could just be a publicity stunt cooked up by the pair. I doubt they will make it to the altar.