Category — The Biggest Loser

Well eagle eyed commenter’s on this blog were right, Hamish Elliott and Michelle Cortesao’s romance has ended, as has Simon Hurley and Lisa Ritherdon’s.

TV WEEK reveals that even though Hamish moved into Michelle’s home in Melbourne it was her mother that invited him to live with them.

When asked by TV WEEK about what kind of future she saw with him she responded “We’re just taking our time – if it happens, it happens”. Hopefully she will hook up with James he seemed more her type of guy and they could make beautiful music together. Literally…

Also it was revealed the father-of-three Simon who is based in Adelaide and Lisa who lives in Sydney relationship found the long distance relationship hard to maintain. Their relationship ended soon after the finale was filmed.

Lisa, quite rightly, was hesitant to make the change. “It was a bit scary, packing my life up,” she said. Also why couldn’t Simon move to Sydney if he was so committed.

Luke appears to be the only one at this stage who has  a girlfriend. He met her after he was asked to leave and she came to the finale.

Also in the same magazine, Margie revealed that the figures we see on the scales on finale night are actually figures from three days before.  Something she was happy about as she said she had pigged out after weigh-in.

Margie also says she is taking her three fellow top three buddies on a trip to Bali “so we can party on up!”. Hopefully none of them fall back into their old habits.

Well Alex only has himself to blame for not having an extra $220,000 in his bank account. He had the opportunity to get rid of Margie on Sunday night’s episode but did not have the gumption to wield the knife.

Anyway I was happy with the win, with Margie winning the title of this years The Biggest Loser. She lost a massive 73.2 kgs. She also provided most of the drama in the house.

Interestingly she said in the Daily Telegraph that she had been bullied in the house by Hamish and Simon, and she also admitted she had been playing the game.

Lydia won the biggest loser outside of the house and this was a prize of $20,000. She looks like she is going to turn into a female body builder, she was looking fit.

There is no news yet on whether TEN will go another season on this show. The ratings were average, however they did achieve some romances on the show and considering it was The Biggest Loser – Singles that was a good outcome.

Margie was lucky she did not have karma come around to bite her around on her not so large butt last night on The Biggest Loser. Margie who is one of the favourites to win, was up for elimination as she fell below the yellow line and Alex and Brenda gave her a leave pass.

Neither of them deserve the $220,000 first prize. Like the first elimination of this series Alex and Brenda had the option not to vote for anyone and save both Margie and Kasey and that is what they did.

No one would have thought less of them for knocking Margie out. Firstly because she is the biggest threat, and secondly she was the person that cast the first vote to eliminated Serena in the first elimination, using the excuse it is a game.

Of course Margie deserves to be in the final, in fact she deserves to win but it is a game. But neither Alex and Brenda had the spine to lop off her head. What would have you done?

There was a bit of levity in an otherwise serious episode when Kasey was training with Tiffiny. She was saying “Throw me some words”

Kasey said “Lonely”, “Shy”, and “Unhappy”.

“What are you”? asked back Tiffiny.

“The Biggest Loser” shouted back Kasey. A bad choice of words perhaps?

Just a couple of notes on last night’s episode. As the final four returned, Bek-less, to the lounge, Margie rocked out the “it was really hard and we don’t have the right to vote people out” line. It felt a bit false, although Michelle responded positively to the sentiment and she’s spent the most time with Margie, but for Commando to throw Selena’s (original) ouster in their faces was a bit rich. I mean, how many chances did Selena get? And did she capitalise on any of them?

The train-the-trainers session was predictable for the amount of pantomime savagery the contestants planned for the trainers. Also predictable for the “oh gosh golly gee I wonder what is happening” mugging from the trainers. This was betrayed by Tiffiny when she said “I thought this wasn’t happening this year“. Of course. Such a surprise!  The trainers all congratulated themselves that they’d done a good job in training the contestants.  Oh, and can somebody explain to me how much colder Swiss ice is than Australian ice?

It really did seem like an awful lot of filler – kind of like a montage of Richard Simmons workouts, although he managed to complete a workout within an episode, if memory serves.  The “train Australia” went on for so long that we must wait until tonight’s episode to see Alex’s routine.

Tonight on The Biggest Loser Bek Gilchrist was eliminated for the second time. She fell below the yellow line and was up for elimination against Kasey. Can Kasey win The Biggest Loser? Surely not.

Bek has lost 44 kgs since she has been in the competition.

The other elimination this week was Graham, and as much as I loved The Amazing Race style challenge in the Swiss Alps, I thought the elimination was a little unfair. The person had to pick a food off the table and the person who selected the food with the highest amount of calories was eliminated.

The final of The Biggest Loser will air on Tuesday 8 May. It is Margie’s game to lose from this point.

Well eagle eyed viewers may have noticed in last week’s preview clip that there were a people missing from the montage. So it was obvious either Graham or Lydia went. However some people with sharper eyes than mine saw all but one.

So it was no surprise that Graham and Lydia were the two below the yellow line. Lydia in fact up on 0.9kgs due to her trying to win immunity with the cup cakes, however she would have lost it anyway as she put on weight, and also because of her inability to train.

Her argument for staying in the competition, really didn’t help her cause. She said she was strong and competitive and wanted to be there at the very end. Whereas Graham trotted out his I need to be here so I can get out get a girl and have babies. That argument worked and Lydia was eliminated.

It looks like she has retained her focus outside the house and is continuing to train. Sometimes Lydia was controversial she played the game hard but also trained hard. This season the girls have made the show and one of them should win.

Well apparently it IS ok to give out spoilers when it is the Network doing it themselves. The preview for this Sunday’s Biggest Loser episode showed most of the contestants except for two of them. Sharper eyes than mine might have spotted all bar one.

Actually that is not the thing that really irked me about last nights episode, it was the continual milking of the “Graham has a crush on Lydia” plot line. Come on they guy is an emotionally vulnerable person and Lydia appears to have been particularly sensitive to his crush, but I don’t think it should have been put on our screens for the viewers amusement.  For contestants like Graham I do think there does need to be caution about how he is presented. Or in fact what is written about him by caustic bloggers…. I may be a bit people in  glass houses on this one.

Other then that it was a short and sweet episode last night, with Michelle singing live in front of an audience, with Hamish adoringly looking on. Will the song be up on itunes as is the reality TV trend at the moment? Also is Hamish continuing to drop weight or has he plateaued? I get the feeling he might have a hard time keeping up the self discipline required to maintain his weight loss.

The Biggest Loser is getting interesting but unfortunately is being hit by the tsunami known as The Voice and The Block.

Considering the show has been on for a few months this week I learnt a couple of new things about the contestants.

Here are a few thoughts about the episodes:

• Margie who got back on a surfboard revealed her brother had been murdered which explained a lot;
• Shannon probably briefed from the producers but he did make a point about Bek, and how she is so cheery and positive, but clearly she emotionally eats;
• Bek revealed her parents separated when she was young and this had a huge impact;
• However considering Bek is “cheery and positive” she sure doesn’t like Lydia and in the temptation was gleeful when she saw Lydia gagging on the cupcakes;
• The temptation was to find one of the three immunity stars under a cupcake, but really there was a lot of luck involved in winning, someone did but we have to wait until tonight to find out who.
• Lydia went for it because she cannot train because of a injured knee but if she eats many more she will end up putting on weight and any immunity she gets will be void.
• Brenda, Bek and Kasey also partook in temptation, and Margie “accidentally” stood on a cupcake so had to eat it;
• Even though Kasey is no favourite of mine, I did get teary when she went horse riding with her father, and as she revealed she could not remember the last time he looked at her with pride;
• Hopefully a female will win The Biggest Loser this year as the two remaining guys, Alex and Graham, are particularly underwhelming; and
• Highlight of episode – Commando doing chin ups.

The Biggest Loser continues tonight Wednesday

Michelle one of my favourites from the beginning of the series was eliminated last night. She was up for elimination against Margie who surely must be in with a huge shot to win the series. The vote was a tie with Michelle being eliminated because she had the lowest weight loss of the week. She only lost 700gms which does prove that it is difficult to obtain big weight losses outside the Loser compound. However Margie did only lose two kilos and it was her first time under the yellow line. I am not sure why the other contestants did not take the opportunity to eliminate her.

And yes the Hamish and Michelle romance is continuing and apparently he is moving to Melbourne.

Last night’s episode had a lot of drama going on in it but for some reason I did not find it that entertaining. Maybe because a lot of the scenes appeared to be so set up.

Also TV WEEK had already announced that it was Alex who was taken away in an ambulance so that was a known plot line, and it was predictable that Margie was rehabilitating herself as the nice girl in the house by sending Michelle home for her mum’s birthday.

Or was Margie pushed into selecting Michelle so we could get the emotional scenes of her mum in pyjamas seeing her much slimmer daughter for the first time. Poor mum also got the new that Michelle’s new boyfriend Hamish was also going to land on the doorstep. He allegedly drove 13 hours to see her.

Not sure whether Hamish thought his “most romantic gesture ever for a girl” was worth it once he heard they were going to be in separate rooms!

It was temptation last night as well where there were fridges full of food that would tempt the contestants. Alex who thought he was at risk went for it. It was pretty disgusting and we really did not need to see him burp on camera.

After all the fast food he was whisked off by ambulance with chest pain, this was more related to his ongoing chest infection.

The other issue that I read about in the latest TV WEEK was that all the eliminated contestants water loaded prior to the first weigh in, so it would look like they lost a lot more weight then they did. Lisa said the contestants were taking in up to 3-4 litres of water prior to stepping on the scales. So this  must explain Brenda’s mega weight loss last week.

Lisa thought it was cheating and also said that Lydia did not do it, however I think Lydia is a whatever it takes kind of girl….

Personally I don’t have a problem with water loading, let’s face it, the show is a game with some serious cash to win.

Anyway at the moment I am hoping either Margie, or Brenda win this year’s Biggest Loser. If Kasey does she will go down as the most boring reality TV winner ever.