TBL Australia 4×51: Why don’t they make vegemite singles anymore?

Previously on The Biggest Loser, Cameron was this week’s Biggest Loser.

No, really, he was!

Teresa got eliminated Monday night and decided to pass her Double bracelet on to Sammy.

Tonight is singles night. Awww year.
And a secret message will send the house into chaos!


Red wait in the lounge for Blue to come back.
Meaghan’s very happy to see her Mum, Julie come back.
Sharif’s not surprised to learn Teresa’s been sent home.

The vote is explained and Julie reminds everyone that she promised to look after Tiffany.
Bob apparently started the alliance, Tiffany tells us. And now something he set up was keeping her feel safe.

Julie apologises to Sharif, barely holding back tears.
Sharif tells us there’s no point apologising to him, he’s not the one who went home! And when people apologise they’re generally doing it to make themselves feel better about what they’ve done.
Maybe that’s why you apologise, but you’re a prat.

Then Cam pulls the Double bracelet out of his pocket. And says it’s for Sammy. And Sammy is stunned to speechlessness. Very unusual!
Sammy says she hopes Teresa gave it to her out of the goodness of her heart. She has money, she needs life!

Meanwhile, on Lost: Ugly Edition, The Commando has new army boots for Bob and Nathan. They have to put them on and make it to the beach in 10 minutes. And they’d not like the consequences of being late.
Commando is waiting on… NUDIE BEACH!

They’re late, of course. So their punishment is to do slow pushups for the time difference.

Their actual exercise for the day is to… shift a bunch of coconuts from one end of the beach to a box up the other end.
And they’ll want to do it as fast as possible. Steve tells us that the longer they take, the less time they have on the phone talking to people at home!

They’re not store-type coconuts, Bob says. Indeed they’re not, they’re still in their husks.

They finally get all the coconuts up in the box without dropping any.
But then they have to grab the net and use it to help them drag the big black box back up the beach. Ouch!
Bob and Nathan have no idea about the phone calls home at this point, apparently.

They finally get the coconuts back to the start point. They’re both totally buggered and then Commando tells them they took 5 minutes too long and that means 5 minutes off the time they can spend on the phone to home. Leaving them 10 minutes to chat to loved ones.
As Nathan said, 10 minutes is better than no minutes at all!

Bob chats to his wife, letting her know about him being on Fitzroy Island. And about The Commando! Bob says he’s awesome. He’ll either get fit or die, strewth!
Bob’s looking forward to seeing his new grandson again once he gets home.

Nathan’s talking to his wife, as well. Telling her about being back on Fitzroy with the Commando. Also gets a chat to Sarah his little girl.
Nathan says that the 3 months he’s spending away from his family, he’s getting 30 years more with his family.

Shannan’s all anxious about who may have gone home when he arrives today.
And he’s dismayed to see Teresa gone. Shannan tells us she’s the heart and soul of the Blue Team.

Shannan says they’ve got to go through with the strongest team possible. In other words, Teresa is stronger than Tiffany? Hmmm, not so sure about that.
Shannan’s not too concerned though. They’re underdogs again!

Shannan is very impressed by Cam getting biggest loser for the week. Shannan reminds him that he was going to make him the biggest loser!

Shannan takes Cam off to the trophy room to gawk at his name on the honour board.
Shannan says in a side bit that Cameron just needed to learn how to believe in himself and Shannan’s proud that he learnt how on Blue!

Blue Team have a big fat blue rope for their workout today. It’s their friend for the day. It’s their blue for life..line.
Not allowed to take their hands off it or let it go at any time during the workout today. It’ll be an hour long training session, unless someone lets it go which will reset the clock!

Looks to have been one of Sydney’s recent rainy patches as the paradeground they’re working out on is muddy and puddly as all hell!
They eventually shift to the oval. Carrying the rope all the way!

Shannan needs to reunite his Blue Team, needs them to understand there’s no hard feelings about sending Teresa home.
Once Shannan tells them that, the training session changes as they all get more energy and determination.
He’s got them commando crawling up a hill. With their rope!

After nearly an hour of all that they’re all sweaty and muddy but none of them had let go of the rope.
So after such a hard session they’re going to finish with something lighter.

They’re going to do some skipping with the 100kg berthing line they’ve been using. Crazy!
Tiffany says she hasn’t skipped since primary school! But Shannan wants the whole team to do it before they finish.

Tiffany’s first up. And first to fall over! But she gets up and has another go and succeeds!
Julie looks to be doubting herself on the way in and is then surprised when she makes the first jump and then makes a couple more before scurrying out!

Cam’s turn. He has more trouble lifting off than Apollo 13, he says.
After a couple of false starts Cam finally jumps in while Shannan and Sean are trying to turn the rope over. But then he can’t manage to run back out!
Eventually he tries to duck out on the wrong side (tsk tsk!) and cops the heavy rope on the back of his head and shoulders, but he’s laughing it off and gives Shannan a high-five. Go Cam!

Red’s training in one of the smaller gyms. But it’s not a normal training session. There’s plates of food with their favourite eats on them. Mmmmm, hot chips!
Michelle’s going to get them to do one of those sessions where they have to burn off the calories for their favourite foods, like Blue has done before.

Andrew tells us you never just eat a pizza. You have some soft drink with it, and some garlic bread and some ice cream afterwards.
Sammy says she used to abuse her body with food, not realising how much damage she was doing.
Andrew is looking down at his pizza while on the treadmill and thinking he never wants to go back there.

They’re about a third of the way through after the treadmill. So now they’re on the spinbikes and Sammy thought this wasn’t going to be so bad. Hill climbs and sprints, not just cycling girly!

Michelle’s trying to get Andrew to 180 beats per minute. Sammy says her heart rate was going up just watching him.
He’s stuck on 179bpm for quite a while but he keeps pushing through, then lets out a yell and tries to push harder. Sammy to his side is also pedalling like a maniac.
Andrew’s pedalling and pedalling and finally gets to 180 beats, burning 100 calories while doing so.

Sharif’s done! Burnt his calories off, and more. Which Michelle says doesn’t surprise her, she’d expect nothing less.
Then Sammy was done, too.

Oh, but that doesn’t mean training is over, oh no! Michelle says everyone has to keep going so long as Meaghan’s not done.
The team manages to keep going for quite a lot longer. Meaghan’s calories taking forever!

Sammy says the training session was very hard, working off the potato bake that she used to eat virtually every day. She says it made her sick just thinking about it.

After an ad break Red and Blue file into the weigh-in room. With it only just having been weigh-in day, they’re a bit confused. They’re worried maybe someone is coming back or someone instantly eliminated or something else crazy.

But no. Ajay is there with a strangely folded black dress.
Ajay says when they entered the competition, they were not alone. They were in couples. Which gave them security!
Then they were separated into Red and Blue teams.
Today, that’s all gone.

Today, it’s down to singles! Every man for themselves, woohoo!

Sharif’s been hoping to survive to then.
Meaghan’s worst nightmare, it is. The alliance may not work so well. She’d been hoping to have herself, Tiff and Sammy in the finale.

No more teammates to weigh you down. No more teammates to pull you through.

Leaderboard time. Who’s setting the standard and who’s being left behind?

Now that it’s back to individuals, the Yellow Line is also back, thank goodness.

In 8th place… Cameron! Big surprise.
Loss: 36.7kg
Percentage: 22.36%

In 7th place. Julie!
Loss: 28.5kg
Percentage: 23.1%

6th, Sammy.
Loss: 29.5kg
Percentage: 24.87%

5th, Meaghan.
Loss: 27.7kg
Percentage: 25.27%

4th, Sharif.
Loss: 45.4kg
Percentage: 25.46%

3rd, Andrew.
Loss: 37.2kg
Percentage: 25.8%

2nd, Tiffany.
Loss: 31.4kg
Percentage: 27.64%

1st, Sean.
Loss: 39.7kg
Percentage: 29.96%

(First and second were announced out of order but I wanted to put them in order. Ner.)

Quite a gap between Tiffany and Andrew and quite a gap between Sean and Tiffany. The others have got some catching up to do!

Ajay asks Tiffany if Sean needs to watch his back? Tiffany says she’ll be watching it… until she goes past him!

As of now, no more teams! It’s on, bitches!

Everyone around you is a threat, says Ajay. “But there are also threats outside of this room. There are ghosts of your past that will come back to haunt you.” Oooooooh. An invisible man, sleeping in your bed, who you gunna call?

Cue freakout footage!

And then the screen comes on, with Ajay saying to Nathan and Bob that it’s time to leave Fat Camp.
Then a montage of what’s been happening with Bob and Nathan since “leaving”.

Meaghan says Nathan’s been thrown so many lifelines he’s like a cat with nine lives, just can’t get rid of him! She’s not impressed.

Tiffany is thinking, firstly, poor Bob! But also yay for being still in the game!

The Commando has a short bit at the end saying he’s currently training the man who’ll come back to take them out. Be afraid, be very afraid!

Ajay tells the contestants there won’t be three finalists, there’ll be four. And Bob or Nathan will be the fourth.
Andrew’s stoked that Nathan has another chance at the finale. He’s hoping he and his brother could be two of the final four!

Back at the bungalow on Fitzroy the Commando visits Bob and Nathan to tell them the cat’s out of the bag.
Nathan says there’d’ve been nine faces that looked like, “:-O” It doesn’t really come across in words how awesome his shocked face was.
“Hello Nancy, game’s on!”

Tomorrow night… MAKEOVER DAY!!!