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Here’s a random pondering — being from the UK means I feel like I have missed out on an important part of the school days portrayed on American TV and in films, hanging out at the School lockers, becoming friends with the person who has the locker next to you, leaving notes on other’s and maybe receiving one back — heck even getting beaten up and put in a locker sounds like fun!

Believe it or not we don’t really use lockers over here. At school you have to take a backpack that contains every thing you need and lug it around all day! Not an easy feat when you have huge text books galore, a gym kit, dinner and so much more and you are only a small wee thing like I was!

Lockers seem so much more practical, but also so much more fun!

The show is definitely less than perfect and I wish they’d made more of it, put more effort and money in to it — it’s a huge success in every other country in the world and it could be here also given the right production, money and what not

Having said that there is something so honest and real about it compared to other versions, firstly it’s clear that a week in the BL UK house is actually a week rather than the any thing from 10 – 30 days in the others. We get to see people actually struggling physically with what they are doing — green momma having that turn out of pure exhaustion would either never happen or never get shown on the other versions for example. The lack of prize money means we get to see how determined people are to actually lose weight rather than win money. The fact people with immunity aren’t water loading and still want to be biggest losers of the week is totally how it should be and the crappy prizes for the temptations mean that the people going for them are actually tempted by the food which is all but a foreign concept now in the other versions – the only reasons any one ever goes for them is for immunity or game advantages.

It doesn’t feel like the biggest loser I know and love, but it’s interesting and a good watch non the less.