Last night’s “Biggest Loser” had the contestants literally jumping through hoops to stay in the game. And, make no mistake, the participants are now treating this life-altering opportunity as a game. It’s like Tracey the Sea Witch cast a spell before she left last week!
On last night’s episode, Sami Brady announced that not one but TWO of the eight Losers would be eliminated. The player with the lowest percentage of weight loss would be “below the red line” and out automatically, with no discussion. Additionally, the players with the second and third lowest percentage of weight loss would be up for elimination, with the usual weekly vote taking place.
You know it’s never that simple, though. With clear alliances drawn, this season is delving into “Survivor” territory. This week there was a clear division with two groups of four: the young against the old.
While I don’t want to sound like a death panel proponent, I will say this: The older people have had a chance to live their lives. They all have spouses and children of their own. Heck, Liz isn’t even that fat (for a Southern grandma, at least)! Give the youngsters a chance at life. Besides, they all have “such pretty faces.”
Throwing more wrenches into the weight loss process were this week’s challenges, both of which proved to be pivotal in gameplay.
The first challenge awarded Allen a one-pound advantage. Then, in the “jumping through hoops” immunity challenge, Rudy and Shay made a deal to be the last two standing. Rudy broke his word and this elicited a string of insults from Shay as he jumped his way to immunity.
When it came time for the weigh-in, there were a few shockers. Shay was praying to lose 12 pounds and actually ended up losing 17. (I think a good 4 pounds of that was lost in tears.) An impressive number nonetheless, especially since it made her the first woman in “Loser” history to lose 100 pounds in 9 weeks!
Daniel and Amanda each lost 5 pounds, with Daniel falling under the red line. He was sent home immediately.Allen lost 10 pounds, which should’ve put him under the yellow line with Amanda. But he won the pop challenge, remember? His one-pound advantage saved him from elimination and the person with the next lowest percentage of weight loss was up for elimination.
Unfortunately, in this case, losing almost 20 pounds in one week was not enough to keep Shay above the yellow line. And how COULD it be? While she has lost 100 pounds, she still has over 200 to go. Somehow it doesn’t seem fair for her to compete physically or on the scale with people much smaller than her.
The most infuriating part of the episode was the voting process. Shay versus Amanda seems pretty clear-cut to me. And, I might add, it seemed pretty clear-cut to the Bob and Jillian as well. While Bob is close with Amanda, even he couldn’t argue when Jillian said Shay needed to stay more.
