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Good news Biggest Loser UK fans, not only will the show be returning on ITV in 2011 it will also be given a primetime slot. It will take on the American format of only airing once per week this time however. The show will run for 8 weeks and will again take on the couples format.

The Biggest Loser originally aired on Living for two series in 2005 and 2006, before moving to ITV daytime in 2009. Last year’s run was won by Kevin Sage, who lost 9 stone 6lbs.

Joint managing director Karen Smith from production company Shine TV said:

“Despite its cheeky title, The Biggest Loser is a hugely positive series which genuinely transforms people’s lives for the better.

“Last year’s winner Kevin has maintained his weight loss and has just completed the London Marathon while Jodie Prenger, who won a previous series, went on to appear as Nancy on the hit BBC Show I’d Do Anything when her weight loss gave her a new-found confidence.”

ITV’s director of factual, daytime and GMTV Alison Sharman said:

“This is a one of the great formats of recent years. It is a wonderfully entertaining watch, with powerful and inspirational stories at its heart. I am delighted that an ITV primetime audience will now be able to enjoy it.”

I have just watched some slide shows of all the male and female housemates from Big Brother UK, it’s amazing how many there are and how many I had pretty much completely forgotten about! It’s made me sad that it’s all almost over now, there’s just over 2 weeks left of the regular series and then the 2 week long ‘all stars’ and then that will be that. No more Big Brother UK

I love it when they reveal the results of the various psychometric tests they have them take on Big Brother before they enter the house and they just released this years a while ago.

They always throw up some surprising results, though you probably have to take into account that many of them probably don’t put much effort into them – Mario for example, his scores were utterly dismal, even a 10 year old would do better than he did but we know from watching the show that Mario is by no means on a level intelligence wise with a 10 year old.

The most surprising results this series were John James, he comes across pretty average on the show – to put it nicely, but he actually scored the highest, even higher than Andrew who just got a near first from Oxford university.

Crazy hey?

Randomly though Sunshine reckons they didn’t even take any this year, she said it on twitter. How can that be right?

See that post about 3 down, listing John James as my favourite?

Well I take it back.

What is with him and his obsession with Rachael? The fact is that she does sneer at people and given them the “I’m better than you look” that JJ describes, but his obsession over it and the way he attacks her about the smallest of things (Oh no, BB girl who wants to get her baps out after the show…who woulda thunk it?) is completely over the top.

He’s a bit of a nutter it seems.

As for tonight, it’s the first eviction of the summer and we have three girls on the block – meaning that in all 11 series a female has been the first to be evicted. I was really hoping to break that little trend in the final series but hey ho.

Rachael vs Shabby vs Sunshine

I really don’t know who I want out, I don’t really like any of them but each add something to the show. Unlike people like Nathan and Ife and Steve who so far have done very little.

On opening night I complained that there was no totty for the girls this year, as their rarely is. But John James is growing on me, he’s too young for me at 24 but that doesn’t mean he’s not worth a look

In addition he seems like an alright kinda guy and I love that he reminds me of my beloved Big Brother Australia that I still miss.

It’s the little things like the fact he calls Big Brother ‘Him/He’ rather than ‘Them/They’ because in Big Brother Australia they do all see the big guy as a man, rather than just a random member of the production staff.

He’s definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer but unlike previous thicko BB pretty boys he seems to have a good heart, show a genuine interest in others and isn’t at all shallow.

So far, he’s my favourite

For the final time. Though I am not convinced it really will be the final time, from what I have heard Endemol are very interested in another channel buying it so at worst I think it will be off air for a few years and then be revived on a slightly less mainstream channel.

Still, I am going to enjoy it as though it were the last.

I was lucky enough to get a free pass for the Internet feed, I was so happy that the live feed is back 24/7 that I would have been happy to pay the £14.99 actually but you know me, if I can get something for less or free then I am very happy.

So far they seem like a pretty nice bunch, and less shallow and stupid in than in previous years it has to be said. It’s very early days though and those that seem nice now could turn out to be total nightmares, we know this from 10 years of experience!

I will post again soon with my opinions on the housemates

‘Citing!

I was watching an old episode of Beauty and the Geek last night, because it was ridiculous am and I couldn’t be bothered to turn it over — I think it was from the last season, with Jennilee and the ‘horrible’ beauty. Some of those guys must get some serious acne solution when they get on the show though, because it doesn’t take very long for it to clear up and they become actually rather hot!

Is that show axed now? I can’t remember.

I wonder how many people are running out to buy the best weight loss products after watching the biggest loser finale last week? Some of the weight losses were amazing – but I do have to admit I wasn’t as in to this season as previous ones but I am not sure why. It’s also interesting to note that according to BMI both Michael and Ashley are still classed as obese – even Stephanie and Sunshine who looked smoking are still ‘overweight’, crazy isn’t it?

A disappointing end to a good season for me. Again someone who sat on the sidelines walks away with the prize. As I have said countless times I know the way Sandra plays is valid, it’s won the game for her twice, it’s just not for me.

I found it quite bizarre that she highlighted at the final tribal council that her main strategy was to get Russell out, but she failed – why highlight that you had no power or sway in the game? I can only assume she was hoping to pick up anti Russell votes.

Russell blew the final tribal council no doubt (having said that does anyone really believe he’d have won if he’d pandered to the ‘oh I’m sorry, I regret everything I did’ nonsense that Danielle seemed to be trying to push him into? I’m kinda glad he stuck to his guns!) and I don’t feel like he was robbed this season as he was last one but I definitely think he and Parvati deserved it a lot more than Sandra as they both had control over the game for a large part of it where she had zero.

I don’t begrudge her the win this season but it pains me to think people are now considering her the best player of all time – we’ve had some real duds win the show over the years, winning doesn’t automatically mean you played the best game – she wouldn’t even make my personal top 10 list.

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Some other thoughts I had while watching the episode…

What was with the long pause in the Colby confessional? It almost looked like the producers forgot to cut it – maybe they were trying to build up the ‘..but I’m not giving up yet’ but it seemed a little odd.

Are Jerri and Coach not engaged/an item then? I was looking forward to that announcement at reunion.

Boston Rob refusing to shake Russell’s hand was lame. Although they all apparently hate Russell they all seemed to be getting along and playing nice at the reunion. I think once the game is over it should be the end to any nastiness (unless something really major goes down).

Does anyone know who Amanda voted for to win?

Even I was surprised that Russell won fan fave again, thought his popularity had waned somewhat and that Rupert had it in the bag.

I was bemused when he said he knew he didn’t win Samoa I am still bemused. It was interesting to hear he did change tactics because of that though and took people he perceived as unlikable to the final with him.

I have not read the other replies yet but I can bet it will be brought up that Russell was dumb to underestimate Sandra and be so cocky he could beat her – so I;d like to point out that they ALL apparently thought the same thing. Colby said as much in his final TC (We all want to be sat next to Sandra at the end because we can beat her), so it was obviously a pretty common opinion.

I was surprised Russell didn’t take out Parvati at the end, everything seemed to be pointing to him doing so and it definitely made sense to my mind. Would Jerri really have won if she’d been there? Hmm.

Biggest mistake in the game it turns out was not knocking out Sandra instead of Courtney before the merge – although as someone said upthread she’d have probably found herself in the final as well for the same reasons as Sandra, not being seen as a threat for the challenges and having coasted along not being seen as a threat to win the prize.