I understand the need for it and have no objections really, I just think that some shows need to be very careful about what they are pimping and I would love to know what sort of effect they have on sales.

Firstly I need to start watching the episodes sooner. I added a bunch of contestants past and present on Facebook this week but forgot to take into account that they’d all be discussing the show – I am very anti spoilers as you know, so knowing exactly what happens in the episodes ruin them for me.

So either watch ‘em faster or remove them all as friends again, boo.

On to the show itself – Dina and jumping on the footstool, what am I missing? I simply didn’t understand the difficulty she was having with it at all…just…yanno…jump on it.

I will never understand why Bob and Jillian go along with the drama and crying when it comes to people switching teams or losing their partners — I feel like they ought to be telling them to suck it up and that it will ultimately make them stronger. I lost a lot of love for Bob last year when he did this and I feel the same again this year. I thought the UK lot were bad when this happened in the last UK series, but I clearly hadn’t seen any thing yet…Bob is not always going to be your trainer, you can’t take him home with you in your pocket…Rudy is not always going to be your partner, you can’t take him home with you in your pocket. Might as well get used to that now than in a few weeks time. Drama Queens.

Liz and Rebecca are nasty. I can’t get my head around every one hating on Tracy for the way she split the teams, she was never going to be able to make everyone happy and I actually think she split them pretty fairly. Liz and Rebecca’s reactions to the fact she didn’t do what they wanted were especially pathetic. She won the power, it’s her call bitches.

I also didn’t understand why the black team kept being referred to as the underdogs, as I said above the teams seemed pretty evenly stacked to me.

I need to summon the voice of Boblian in my head shouting at me not to do it, or actually more effective for me would be imagining the work out they;d give me if I was on The Biggest Loser and had given in to a temptation challenge — they’d make me sweat blood!

Still, chocolate….yum, I am having some. Boblian can’t touch me all the way over here in England

For me any of the four really could have won it and I wanted to watch it without knowing.

Bob was the obvious winner in that he had the highest % and was a weight loss machine, but I did think there was a high chance he would throw it in order to let Tiffany win — the parents this season never made any bones about the fact they were there for their kids and wanted to get them far, and Tiffany had the double bracelet and the producers would have loved to have the gorgeous and sweet young mum as their first female biggest loser for sure.

Sharif was only a little behind in % and still had the weight to lose and although Sammy was the underdog she did still have the weight to lose — had this been a USA season where they get months at home rather than weeks, I think she really could have done it.

As it turned out, my favourite (along with Sherif and Teresa) won the at home prize, go Sean! Ben looked awesome, he was the only one that had really changed since the last time we saw him when he was still quite big. All the girls looked amazing, especially Meaghan and Holly and Mel….and…..big bad Bob won the title having lost a staggering 86.7kgs, that’s 193lbs for heavens sake, I am going to find out if that’s the biggest ever on any show throughout the world, it has to be surely?

Overall it was a great finale and I shall post my feeling on the series in general and the gap it has now left in my life in a few days time when I have had the chance to digest.

PS. Like a total nerd, I just added a bunch of them on Facebook hehe

Only, wait…he’s been eliminated fair and square again but he’s still not out of the game, he’s formed a White Team (wasn’t there already a white team this season!?) with Bob, who he took down with him and The Commando — or Steve, as he’s otherwise known.

I can understand why the producers keep saving him, he’s so narcissistic, egotistical, power hungry and money hungry that he makes good TV, people must love to hate him. But wouldn’t it be nice and novel for once to have a season of any reality show without producer interference, imagine that!

At least this time I can’t blame the producers, it was his fellow contestants who handed it to him on a plate by not upping the anti and at least making him eat more than 120 calories to win it — they all just sat there and let him take it.

I wonder if poor little brother Andrew will finally realise that Big Brother doesn’t trust him to make such a ‘big decision’, he could have just let him win but no, he was even willing to bet against his own brother to ensure his own safety in the game, groan.

It is very obvious that the couples are going into either teams or singles and Nathan will get to decide, so we will have to endure a few days of him lording it over every one.

In other news. I want Bob as my Daddy, or Granddaddy, or next door neighbour, or, or, or…anything — I just want that sweet lovely gooey mushy man in my life, stat!

Bob has been my favourite since.

1. Bob TBL USA
2. Shannan TBL Aus
3. Jillian TBL USA
4. Kym TBL USA
5. Michelle TBL Aus
6. Male Trainer TBL UK
7. Female Trainer TBL UK

The fact I don’t even remember the names of the UK trainers says a lot doesn’t it?

I had been considering moving Shannan up to the top spot for a while but just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Until watching the first half of this weeks US episode.

Bob, too much drama man. We get that you love your team, but it’s a TV show…get over it? I don’t see how some of them going to another trainer is any worse than them getting eliminated? In fact it’s an awful lot better than that surely?

I loved that they split the teams up. One of the things I have not liked about the show in recent times is the no shifting alliances — the last few seasons it has been like, what’s the point in them going to singles when they still vote as teams — and Mr Bob was largely to blame for that mentality. Having the new teams chosen in a (sort of) random way will hopefully go some way towards fixing that.

So, I salute you Bob Harper — you were top of the list for many years and I still love ya, but move over and make way for Shannan Ponton

Oh man watching the episode I was hoping to see a bit of beautiful karma in action, I was already planning the blog post in my head as the episode went a long.

But alas, Bob’s team were weak and did ‘The right thing’ by voting out Blaine, despite him not being the biggest threat, despite Bob telling them not to, despite the fact the black team went against their direct wishes and voted out his biggest threat just a few weeks earlier.

I hope it comes back to bite them in the ass, I am now rooting for Dane to win the lot.

In other Biggest Loser news — Shut up Tara, please just shut up. She’s annoying me more and more each week, she has the ‘Heba factor’ about her in that she thinks she’s the shit, she thinks she’s better than the rest of the people there and believes that the world does, or at least should, revolve around her.

I can’t wait until she gets knocked down a peg or two.

Iiiiiiiii know, how hard it can be, you gotta lift!

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Only just over two weeks now before The Biggest Loser Australia kicks off it’s fourth season, can you tell I am a little bit excited about that?

It’s the perfect little package for me — it’s a reality show, it airs daily so it’s really easy to get really immersed into and the goal is to lose weight and better the contestants lives.

As someone who is trying to lose weight and has been for almost two years now, this show is hugely motivational to me — it inspires me to get off my (now much smaller, thank you very much) bottom and do something, get some calories burned. I think that this year though the work outs are going to have to remain indoors, I am from the UK and it is so darned cold out there this year and I don’t really have any suitable outdoor clothing, that I don’t think I am up for braving an outdoor run or two.

I find the Australian version superior to the American one for many reasons, of course I miss Bob and Jillian from the Australian show because for the last two seasons they have only been on it part time — but I love that there are many more twists and adventures a long the way, but the main thing that scores it points is the simple fact it’s a daily show rather than a weekly one.

Like I said, much easier to get fully immersed into.

Roll on February 1st

The finale really wasn’t that interesting though. It pains me Heba won the at home prize — though the up side of that being if America has voted her into the final three, she would have won the lot, I was really rooting for Amy and there was absolutely no mention of the despicable way Vicky, Brady, Ed and Heba acted throughout the show…it’s as though the producers thought if they didn’t revisit any of that nastiness we’d just forget it ever happened.

Thankfully people have longer memories.

And is it just me or was there a certain amount of karma at stake when both Heba and Vikcy very nearly fell flat on their arses during their big ‘look at me’ moment, hmm

That said congratulations to them all, I am glad Michelle won the main prize and roll on season 7!