Red was victorious in last night’s minor challenge and of course no one wants the Commando “reward”.
How will Blue cope in yet another punishing session with The Commando?

Read on to find out!

Commando Steve arrives at the house while it’s still really dark out. Very dramatic!
He wanders in with a garbage bin and a big metal torch to bash against it and wake up the Blues.
Damien says he’d been asleep for all of an hour forty five minutes!
Mel has no idea what time it is but she’s obviously not wanting to get out of bed! As are all the girls, just lying there hiding from him.
“You think you can sleep through this?” “Yep!” “Alright! *bash bash bash bash*”
By this point Red are up too and Munnalita says she actually feels sorry for Laura at this point as poor Laura has had the Commando every time due to team swapping.

Damien tells Commando Steve that they’d had the hardest day ever but The Commando doesn’t care! Ha!
With everyone finally almost dressed he’s downstairs bashing on his bin some more.
Laura’s struggling to put her shoes on while The Commando keeps shouting at her, telling her to hurry up. She gets a bit pissy and says he doesn’t need to shout at them like that, like they’re pieces of dogshit on the ground!
Definitely coming out of her shell now…

And they’re off and… dawdling. Damien looks to be the only one truly awake, but even he’s struggling. Says it’s not the right time to be subjected to this sort of punishment.
“You’ll do what I say, when I say it.” – Commando Steve
Mel looks… pissed. And says as much.
Commando Steve is actually being a bit more kind and caring this time, telling Laura that if she starts feeling uncomfortable in her knee, let him know and he’ll have her do something else. Ditto Damo with his back, Jules with her shin splints.
Damien says that the Commando doesn’t have rules, he just wants them to work together.

Laura refuses to do any river exercises, then stands her ground on not doing pushups either because she can’t put pressure on her knee.
So Commando Steve has her doing “weights” with a sandbag instead. Which she eventually cracks the shits at, throwing it on the ground and doing situps instead, which causes Steve to yell some more. Laura’s managing not to cry, but she’s close as she tells him that it hurts her knee even to stand. Steve is obviously willing to give a little ground here, though he pokes at her some more, to which she replies that he “has no idea what I’m going through!” And so on.
Considering he’s an ex-Army Commando who may or may not have seen some pretty serious combat and may or may not have been injured, is that really the route to sympathy you want to try?
“You are just full of excuses!” – Steve

“How dare you yell at me like that! I’m not an animal!” Funny that she’s using an Elephant Man quote there…

Damien’s not having a bar of it, pretty much agreeing with Steve’s assessment that she’s really just making excuses, which is really how she got to where she is in the first place…
In the end the training with the Commando looks to have been much easier than previous times. Still a caning, but nothing like the first two sessions. He seems to have a heart after all, damn!

Temptation day, hurrah!
Damien’s still a wee bit tired.

There’s just one rule for Temptation today: whoever eats the most calories, wins.
Go outside and you’ll be confronted by the same temptations that got you here.

Only the person who wins immunity will have their calorie count revealed. For everyone else what happens outside, stays outside!

Greg goes out first after volunteering to do so.

Lots and lots of all the fast food shop staples.
Greg looks around, counting calories and boggling at how much they all have. He tries to ask if there’s a chicken kebab but no joy…
“It was like I didn’t need it. I didn’t need to eat it.” – Greg

Blue sits down to a strategy session and they decide that Damien should have a go at it because he’ll burn the calories off the easiest, not sure how that works but they’d know.
Laura would like to for the sake of the team, but she’s not sure she could burn it all off.
So Damien heads out and orders… *deep breath*… 12 calamari rings, chicken shish kebab, doner kebab with the lot (garlic sauce thanks!)
He says he feels guilty about it, but he was doing it for the team…
He thinks he probably gets through a thousand calories. I think that’s probably a bit more than a thousand.

Marty goes next and says he’s salivating as he walks towards the cart.
But now he doesn’t want it anymore because he’s seen the calories in the food and how much work it takes to get rid of them all. Don’t need it!

Mel walks out, walks up to the cart, has a giggle, says no thanks and tries to walk away… with the cart men calling out their various delicacies to try and tempt her back. Evil!
She stays strong and heads back inside.

Pati didn’t even miss any of the stuff until presented with it. She takes a look at the menu though and decides to have a chocolate milkshake, and fucked if she’s going to feel guilty for it!

Even though Blue has a strategy, Jules decides she wants to prove to herself that she can have half a chocolate bar, then walk away. She just wants a nice morning snack.

Munnalita says she has chocolate for breakfast, then chocolate before she leaves for work, more chocolate during the day at work, then more chocolate at home while watching TV.
I guess she’s not exactly clueless as to why she got fat in the first place, huh?
Red had decided that Courtney should be the one to go for immunity, with Marty maybe going for it next week.
Munnalita decides not to try and go for immunity as well… But she decides to go for something she “needs”.

A Mars bar.

Wait, no, TWO Mars bars…

She has a strange idea of needs versus wants, but I don’t think two Mars bars is going to stack up against Damien’s pigout. We’ll see!

I’m a little surprised that no one hasn’t gone out there and run laps around the cart for a half hour to give the impression they’re pigging out in a massive way… Oh well!

Laura’s up next and despite Damien deciding to go for it, she’s decided she needs to as well.
Her order: A hamburger with cheese and bacon on it, some chips and a corn dog. Might be close to what Damien had, but it will probably be very close…

Courtney doesn’t particularly want immunity so much as he doesn’t want Marty to have it. Sneaky bastard.
So he orders: a large chips with tomato sauce, 12 nuggets… a chicken wing while he’s waiting. And a chocolate milkshake. Could be close to Laura as well.
To his credit, he says it really made him feel sick, saying he may as well have gotten a needle full of fat injected.

Damien chats with Courtney and Laura and finds they both ate quite a bit. Laura said she really needed immunity so she really had to.
Courtney’s guessing he had around 1500 calories which might be enough… maybe.

And indeed it is, Ajay tells them.
Courtney says he just wanted to be sure neither Damien nor Marty got control of The Walk.

And his total calorie intake? 2,280! Holy crap!
He was quite shocked, thinking it wasn’t anything near that. And now he’s really worried that Michelle is going to flog him.

And well he should be worried, as tomorrow night Michelle is “very disappointed”. Which is unsurprising considering that Greg is the only one not to have partaken in the challenge and Courtney partook a bit more than any sane person would’ve!
It also seems likely that Munnalita succumbing to chocolate urges, again, is the cause of the blow-up… But it looks like we’ll finally find out tomorrow.
And Courtney takes the walk, rah rah rah, change the game, rah rah rah, and so on.