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So Sam was finally eliminated from The Biggest Loser, and about bloody time too. I don’t usually agree with the bigger contestants moaning about how they really need to be there more than any one else – Shay was especially annoying like this last season – but in this case I think it’s true that Sam didn’t need to be there any more, he was at his goal weight, happy and confident that he’d be able to keep it up on the outside and wasn’t even interested in trying to win the money. His time had come.

And at least we know Sam won’t be hitting the appetite suppressants, for the first time in the US version he hit his goal weight and actually isn’t trying to lose any more weight before finale – good for him.

The revelation about him and Stephanie at the end made the earlier seemingly random attack on Stephanie by Koli a lot clearer though – it seemed to come out of no where and be based on nothing at the time. Now it’s apparent that it was in some way related to her getting close to Sam – either simple and petty jealousy on his part, or perhaps if I am being more sympathetic Koli was just trying to protect Sam and make sure he wasn’t distracted.

Either way I had been going off Koli for a while but this episode confirmed him in my ‘dislike’ pile – the ‘Steph thing’ coupled with his arrogance about not needing the 1 pound advantage because he’s so awesome. No, sorry kid, waterloading the previous week because you had immunity does not make a 15 pound loss awesome – it’s just science. I have no qualms about people waterloading, it’s part of the game – but lets not pretend you did something special the following week when you drop a big number.

Further to my last post I have decided that they must use diet aids, they just must. The recent episode of The Biggest Loser USA where they had to go and do a weeks work and only had about 2 hours to work out per day – but they still all pulled massive numbers ‘proving’ it can be done at home? Well no it can’t, they are always saying that the numbers they get on the ranch aren’t realistic or sustainable for regular folks – they lose those numbers because losing weight is their ‘job’ while they are there. So either they were using something to help them out along the way or they were working out more than the show was letting on to us viewers!

…now that we are back to normal and the team that should not be named are gone. We’re back to normal editing and normal pace and it’s more like the show I know and love.

It’s still less than perfect though as we still missed out on two weeks worth of the show. They have been there for a month now, a month and we’ve only seen 5 episodes.

I usually love and adore certain contestants by now, I usually loathe some also – at this stage I still don’t even know most of their names, I don’t know who’s on which training team even.

We can never get those two weeks back

I find the red and green teams equally as unlikable, green have a real attitude problem – that’s clear to see. I was amused at them throwing their toys out of the pram and basically blaming the red team for them falling under the line – would it have killed them to take the 2 seconds required to do the maths to realise they were under the line regardless of the 2lb penalty. Could have saved themselves from looking even more daft than they already did.

Bob and Jillian annoy me more and more each episode. I think it’s safe to say my days of hero worshipping them are long gone.

They get far too involved in the drama and just seem to be being fake and acting the whole time.

Now don’t get me wrong that woman on the red team is annoying, every time she does a piece to camera I want to turn over, she seems like the sort of woman that you’d see coming towards you and groan and instantly start thinking about your escape strategy – she’s just so brash. But the whole “How dare you doubt us, we know everything” nonsense from Bob and Jill after she weighed in was ridiculous – no Boblian, you might know a lot but you don’t know everything. How many times have we had shots of them, hands on head, mouths wide open saying “I don’t know how that happened” after someone has weighed in? Either when they had done an amazing result or when they had done a poor one – there has been many times Bob and Jillian didn’t understand a result so they need to stfu!

Speaking of dieting and the like – how about 4 months away with two of the best trainers in the world instead of fast weight loss pills – you can’t really get any better than that.

Yup that’s right, my favourite TV show ever is coming back in less than two weeks time. The Biggest Loser Australia season five kicks off on Janurary 31st and I can not wait.

I will miss Ajay though.

I just got around to watching the second episode of The Biggest Loser, it takes me about a week to download anything at the moment because my ISP is throttling p2p traffic – it’s a total pain but I can’t get away as I am still within my 12 month contract.

Note to anyone reading, never go on o2 access!

So two main observations.

* Why would any one ever turn to weight loss pills after seeing what can be achieved on these shows? One dude has lost almost 50 pounds in 2 weeks – are you serious?

* Bob and Jillian should never consider acting, the segment where Bob had on the White team guys weight and the one where poor Jillian was forced to eat processed food – some of the most cringe-worthy moments on TV, ever!

Roll on episode 3

…a new season of The Biggest Loser USA, already? really?

Each season when we meet the new crop I say the same thing – these people are too big, each season has to outdo the last and it’s already at a ridiculous level – I dread to think how it’s going to be by season 19. The lightest person will weigh 500lbs.

I have to say I like the couples format as it means more contestants for us to meet. I was duped by the first challenge as well which is rare, when Ali announced the 2 people to complete the slowest would go home I thought; “nah, no way..they’ll be sent off to train with a ‘The Commando’ or something” – so when it actually looked like they were going home, doing their leaving interview to camera, getting in the limos – I was shocked. I believed they were going home, but then of course out popped Bob and Jillian to announce the twist

I was surprised at who went home also, I feel the producers probably didn’t expect the ‘Half ton twins’ to be the first out, they must have spent a long time trying to find them and given the edit they got in the first episode I thought they were in for the long haul.

I will continue to watch, I can’t help myself, but I think it’s safe to say my love affair with this show is over. It’s just gone too far now.

I’ve had a busy old week this week so have not had time to wax lyrical about my favourite shows – though of course I have still found time to watch them.

So Danny won The Biggest Loser, I thought Rudy had it in the bag so good on him – interestingly though according to his BMI he’s still in the overweight category (just) – in fact all of them except for Tracey and Rebecca are!

Ally was voted out of Strictly Come Dancing which makes me sad, I have not been that into this series but I thought she was lovely and for a few weeks at least she’s been the only one still in it that has kept me watching. I really don’t see the appeal of Chris – I find Ricky dull but at least understand he can dance well, Chris is dull and dances poorly – their popularity confuses me. I probably wont watch the final.

Joe won The X Factor, very predictable. I fear he’s going to be another Leon/Steve/Shayne – notice a pattern there? All guys who sing mainly ballads. There’s no doubt Joe can sing and is a nice guy but there’s nothing special or interesting or unique about him – I suspect he’ll have a couple of big hits, a semi decent first album and then we’ll never hear from him again!