The Biggest Loser
SPOILERS
The current season of "The Biggest Loser" was less interesting, to me, in its first several weeks than has been true of previous seasons, because the producers did another "couples" show...either husband/wife or parent/child couples. Bob Harper had the husband/wife couples and Jillian took the father/son, father/daughter, mother/daughter couples.
Things, however, have taken a turn toward the nasty in recent weeks, and -- natcherly! -- I've found myself anticipating each show. First and foremost, there is one contestant playing now whom I detest beyond all measure. Her name is....Heba! The way the competition has run this season is that at first teams played against teams and the team that "lost" the weigh-in would vote out one of its couples. After a a couple of weeks during which a two parent/child teams had been evicted, they changed things up. They then forced the couple with the lowest weight-loss to send one of the couple home. This meant that a father and daughter had to decide which would go home (the father went), and then a husband and wife had to decide which would go home (the husband went). This latter couple -- Ed and Heba (!) -- had been great friends with another couple -- Brady and Vicky. Heba, Brady and Vicky decided to "run" the game. One of the challenges open to everyone was an opportunity to change the game -- to wit, they put out massive amounts of donuts and brownies and cookies and Reese's peanut butter cups -- and whoever consumed the most calories would be able to change the game. This would come with the winner being able to reorganize the two teams to suit her needs.
Well, the fact was that most of them didn't wish to face the consequences of eating the most calories when they were trying to lose weight. Heba, controlling person that she is, stood up and volunteered to take the fall, saying she would be fair. She wondered if anyone minded. No one said anything. The lights were turned off and Heba began eating. Then, she stopped and listened because she heard someone else eating. It was Phil of the couple Phil and Amy. As he later said, he didn't agree to anything. He was waiting for the lights to go out. And a third player -- Amy of the mother/daughter team Amy and Shellay -- also joined in and ate something. As it turned out, Phil stopped eating too soon and Heba beat him. And Heba was a vengeful goddess. To punish them, she split up Amy and her mother and then split up Phil and his wife. To her trainer's utter horror, she sent Phil to the "black" team (Jillian's team), giving that team a huge advantage in posting large weight-loss numbers. In subsequent episodes, Heba did her utmost to vilify Phil and to create situations that she instigated. She lied and lied about him being mean to her, etc., etc. The first person evicted when Heba's team lost a weigh-in was Phil's wife. She justified her actions by saying that her partner was gone and Amy was no better than she was. One week later, a dejected Phil (he had lost more weight than any of his teammates but not enough to keep his team safe) was voted out.
Last night, all ejected players returned for another weigh-in and a challenge that would see "one" of them return to the game. Vicky, Brady's wife, spoke out against Phil as being someone she could not stand to see get back in the game. I LOATHE Vicky. She's nearly as bad as Heba. Anyway, Phil's wife was hurt by this comment and Phil was, too. He confronted Vicky and told her he didn't care what she thought of him but that she shouldn't have hurt his wife. Brady came storming over and saying he'd like to knock Phil's block off...blah, blah, blah. And Phil hasn't done anything to any of them except to suggest one time that they should rid themselves of Heba's manipulation of them.
Unfortunately, Heba's husband Ed won the challenge and was back in the game in a "blue" shirt with Bob as his trainer. Although last night marked the end of team competition -- meaning they would all play as individuals -- the fact was that five of them were from the "blue" team and three were from the "black team" and, traditionally, such folks vote the party line when it comes to evicting someone when a member of their former team is against the member of another former team. Last night, though, things began steaming up when the three ladies of the "black" team all recorded respectable weight losses. Ed, who was immune, and whose weight loss would not help anyone, had lost several pounds beyond what he weighed when he rejoined the game just days before. As the "blue" ladies weighed in, one of the "black" team's players kept dropping down, down, down until it was plain she would be in the bottom two. The final weigh-in was Brady, Vicky's husband. He is a big man and is capable of losing in double digits every week. Last week he lost 13 pounds. Last night, he needed to lose 8 pounds to stay above the line. He lost 6.
Even then, he and his "blue" team thought he was safe. There were two "black" votes against him and four "blue" votes for him.
Or were there? Amy, the only unattached member of Brady's "blue" team, had been warned by her mother to look out for her best interests. Amy knew that if it had been her against Brady, she would lose. If it had been her against any of the other three on the "blue" team, she would lose. So, Amy voted Brady OUT.
It was tied, 3-3. The automatic tie-breaker in "indivdiual play" is that the person with the lowest amount of weight loss (based on body fat loss) leaves. Brady was that person!
This was a wonderful conclusion to an UGLY episode. But...the UGLINESS will continue next week because Vicky is going to go ballistic on Amy for her treachery. I await this episode with bated breath!
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