TBL Australia 4×46: Chinese Fortune Cookie Torture
Previously on The Biggest Loser Bob and Nathan headed back to Fitzroy Island to train for five weeks with The Commando.
Ouch!
Tonight is Temptation night for the rest of the contestants.
Also, they’ll train with the Sydney Swans, including Big Bad Barry Hall! Awesome!
But first, Bob and Nathan are on a boat heading back to Fitzroy Island.
Bob says when they got there before he was 53kg heavier than he is now.
Nathan says last time he was there, he did a lot of crying. But he’s a lot fitter now and is looking forward to seeing how much he’s changed.
“They thought they were eliminated. Nup.” – Commando Steve. Economical as ever.
And the training starts early. Bob and Nathan have to lug all their luggage and supplies for the next 5 weeks.
But first, new t-shirts. White ones! So this is a second white team.
The tide’s coming in so the beach is disappearing so they need to hurry it up.
Not a very nice beach though, it’s all coral rather than sand. Nathan says it’s very hard to run on.
Nathan accidently lets a bag drop and it then rolls on down into the water. Hope nothing important was in there!
Steve says to Bob his only focus right now is to get the equipment to the rope, yes? “..yes..” Come on, louder! “Yes!”
Nathan thinks he’s going to throw up a lung at one point.
“If you’re hurting, I want you to hurt more!” – Commando Steve the Quotable.
Bob’s starting to struggle, he collapses at the end of one of the legs.
But once they get down to the bit of the beach that marked the finish line they still have to lug it up a small hill to get to their new digs.
Last time on Fitzroy, they were in the lap of luxury. This time? Eh, it’s still pretty nice but definitely not quite so cushy!
Looks much worse on the outside than it does inside. Just looks like a nice beachside cabin. Nathan says you can not only hear the ocean, you can see it!
Nathan collapses on the floor, Bob manages to make it to a bed. But Bob’s wondering if he can make it through the rest of the days.
Michelle and Shannan know it’s been a tough week for everyone, including themselves. So they need to do something to lift spirits. “We’re going to blow this popstand and take your training to an elite level!”
But before they head off, Sharif needs to get his nappy-wearing on and have a chat to Michelle about something to do with her team.
I’m guessing they had to refilm it as there’s an awkward cut in the middle of that and suddenly only Michelle and Sharif are leaving the room. Anyway!
He wants to tell Michelle that he feels like he needs to take Temptation this week if immunity is on offer, after what happened to Nathan at the elimination.
He tells us he feels vulnerable due to the rest of his team having an alliance.
Michelle says that Sharif deserves to be there and she doesn’t want to see him go and they both say he shouldn’t go over people who “haven’t got it”.
Apparently Cameron’s been eating two “kanga bangers” on bread for breakfast and a steak sandwich for lunch. Sam’s diet isn’t much better, apparently.
Michelle says she’ll go sort them out and thankyou for telling her. No mention of dobbers and their choice of underwear. Hmmm.
Michelle tells us that Cam and Sam are eating way too many carbs because they still don’t have their diets right.
Michelle rattles off some of the stuff they’ve been eating and Cam is all, “No good?” Sigh.
Sam says that learning that stuff is why they’re there. Michelle wants them to know it’s not fair on everyone else.
Sam says she can get nailed by the nutritionist and by Michelle but until someone sits her down and says they can eat this and can’t eat that, she’s been watching everyone else and that’s what everyone else has been doing. Okay, maybe not so much green leafy stuff as everyone else. Sam thinks she’s being nailed because she doesn’t know as much as everyone else and she’s there to learn and Michelle retorts, “Well you know what, Sammy? Start learning!”
Sam stops mid-sentence and looks shocked.
Michelle says if someone needs to be sat down and given a straight conversation then they’re going to get one!
Michelle tells them they should be able to quote how many calories they’re on off the top of their head, both of them at this point in time. It’s not her responsibility to count them up for her, she’s not their mother!
But for now, they need to put their heads into this training session and smash it!
They finally arrive at a footy ground. Meaghan says she noticed the ground and then the heaps of footy players. She especially noticed the players since none of them were ugly!
Jude Bolton and Barry Hall are the Swannies running the training session.
Barry says they all looked a bit scared and Jude said that was probably just Barry because he cuts a menacing figure!
“Bring it on, Barry Hall!” – Tiffany, while pounding her fist into her hand.
Barry and Jude are really working them hard. Julie says it was amazing to be considered an athlete.
I don’t know that you are. You’re still a bit slow!
Next part of the training is some ball wrassling. Two people have to try and get the ball back to Barry first.
And they can shoulder charge each other and tackle and so on. As Andrew demonstrates so well with a huge shoulder charge on Sharif!
Then Shannan is left giggling at Tiffany and Meaghan going at it. “It was like a cat fight!”
Sam tackles Teresa and throws her aside once then pushes her over a couple of times.
Michelle says Sammy was a standout today!
Tiffany’s watching everyone else tackling some tackling bags. All she can see is legs and bums flying in the air! Meaghan also finds it hilarious watching her Mum tackling things.
Michelle tells us today’s training session was tough, gruelling but different and new and exciting. And you need that sort of thing from time to time to get people re-motivated and so on.
Meanwhile, on Lost: Fat People Edition… Commando Steve rocks up to the cabin to get his team together for their first training session.
Bob is already up and dressed which Steve says is a good sign. It’s also miraculous, he’s dressed in his white shirt!
Nathan wasn’t, tsk tsk.
Time to grab some logs and head to the campground!
“From this moment on the Commando is my trainer and I am his disciple!” – Nathan
“This morning’s training session was all about showing these men that we don’t need pussy gyms.” – Commander McQuoteyFace
“We were doing an outdoor training session. Commando style.” Oh geez…
Bob’s struggling, Nathan seems to be doing okay though.
Nathan waits for Bob at one point. But Bob’s not going to let Nathan down.
Steve tells them to remember this is about changing their lives for the better.
The finally get to the campground and it’s not over yet.
The grassy area they’re working out on has come in for a bunch of rain so running across it is rough going.
Steve says the young bull, Nathan, will be able to do most anything he can get thrown at him. But the old bull Bob won’t be capable of as much. So you need to find a balance in the training between working Bob hard and smashing Nathan.
Nathan says Bob will never keep him behind but he’ll always be in front of Bob!
“We’re not children. We’re not girls. Yeah? We’re men! When we leave this island we’re going to show everyone who we are. Men!” Hallelujah, preach it brother man!
“Treat yourself like a man, act like a man and train like a man.”
Meanwhile, back at airy fairy girly land, they’re heading off for Temptation!
They turn up at a chinese restaurant. Oooh, more chicken feets?
Julie’s got hunger pangs because chinese is one of her favourites!
Ajay has a little black dress with weird white stripes in the sideboob area. Bizarre.
Ajay says surviving the game can include relying on a little good fortune… which brings us to Temptation!
Huge fishbowls “full” of fortune cookies. Actually, there’s blue and red cloth under them and the bowls aren’t filled to the top…
Cameron’s eyeing them off greedily. As usual.
There’s 100 fortune cookies in the bowl but only one in each bowl has immunity.
They have 30 minutes to eat as many as they can. Each cookie contains 25 calories meaning an “all in” would cost 2,500 calories. If you can even stomach that many.
If nobody finds immunity only people who have participated can take part in the second round. Second round there’s only one cookie each but only one has immunity.
Whoever picks the immunity cookie will be safe for another week.
As soon as Ajay says it’s time to play Temptation Sharif shoves his hand in the bowl and starts chowing down. While Sean watches eagerly and many of the others are horrified.
Sharif says if he has to eat them all, he’ll eat them all.
Sharif’s feeling extremely vulnerable and it’s hard to blame him.
Sharif gets through 7 and he’s figuring he can’t get through enough to find immunity. Especially as they’re so hard to eat, so dry.
Andrew says to him that it seems like nobody else was going to take part, so Sharif stops and hopes nobody else decides to gamble.
Cameron’s looking shifty though… he starts motioning “one” to Sammy who keeps shaking her head.
Sam is staring daggers at him. She knows Blue will love seeing Red fighting amongst themselves.
And on and on and on it goes. Any time now!
One minute left says the Temptress Ajay.
But, finally, nobody but Sharif eats a cookie. Hooray!
Sharif wins Temptation yet again. Now he’ll have the “power” of The Walk. Hooray?
Ahh, I see, Ajay’s dress has stripes in other places, it’s just the front boobage that is plain black. Looks quite nice when you see more than the closeup of her.
Cameron, Meaghan and Sammy will be at risk of elimination if they lose the weigh-in yet again!
And now, Bob’s parting gift. The biggest loser of the week usually gets a family visit but since Bob’s gone, someone else gets it.
Hi Ajay. Hi Ajay’s strange blue-grey dress with floral-y things at the elbow.
Blah blah blah, Bob’s so lovely to hand on his reward so many times. He’s so lovely and generous he’s handed on his reward yet again, etc.
BUT WHO WILL IT BE? I don’t know, let’s stand around staring blankly for a bit.
Oooh, it’s Cam’s hot daughter! Sam’s hot sister! Oooh! The one who got married while they were in the house, if you’ve forgotten.
Big hugs and kisses and tears and so on.
Margo, the daughter, asks if she gets a red shirt now. She says she’s got a little competition in Sammy now.
Er, no. You don’t. Really, really don’t!
But wait, there’s more!
Yes, it’s Cameron’s wife. The one who is supposedly wanting to leave him.
Big hugs and kisses and his wife says she loves him. Awwww!
She says he looks closer to what he looked like when she met him.
Also, Bob left a letter for Cameron with some words of inspiration. Cool!
After the ad break they go for a chat in the trophy room to talk about how awesome Bob is. Yay!
Cam’s got a bit of a mancrush on Bob it seems.
Cam then settles down to read Bob’s letter but breaks into tears and gets Margo to read it. It’s a very nice letter, saying Cam’s strong and can provide support and encouragement to others. It’s time for him to shine!
Then Cam and his wife get to go on a spiffy picnic! Romantic view of the ocean and cliffs and sunset so on. Awww!
Tomorrow night, Sharif goes on The Walk. And it’ll shake the game like an English nanny with an unruly child.
Also, Bob and Nathan climb up a hill. Awesome.