Previously on The Biggest Loser… Andrew got sent home. Oh come on, that was two days ago, get over it!

Yesterday the fatties hiked up a hill with a bunch of sandbags on their back.

Tonight, Cam, Sam and Sean face their fears. Fears including a cliff face, some white water rapids and, apparently, jumping out of the choppa?

Sam’s first. Walking by herself through a forest she tells us… as she walks through the forest by herself on screen.
Sammy’s scared of water, apparently. And heights, Michelle tells us. And this combines them both since there’s a good 6 metre drop at one point. Whoosh!

Sammy tells us she thought everything was fine when she got to Fitzroy Island. She figured she just needed to lose some weight and she’d be fine. But she was actually hiding and lying to people and that’s not living.
Sam says to Michelle that every turning point in her journey has been because of Michelle. If she’d not told her to stop being a victim and do this other positive thing instead, she’d’ve never changed.
Michelle is glad Sammy told her that because they’re going to need the changed Sammy today!
Michelle points to the waterfall bit and tells Sammy that’s what they’re doing today… just as an inflatable raft comes hurtling over the top and into the white water.
Sammy looks absolutely horrified. The look on her face is priceless!

Sam’s not having to do it by herself though. She’ll have a professional guide with her and Michelle’s coming along for the ride.
The guide is very reassuring. He says there’s a good chance they’ll fall out today and a good chance they’ll flip over.
“Ooookay, I’m probably going to die!”

Michelle seems way more excited about doing this than Sammy does. Sammy tells us that Michelle’s there, everything will be fine… but she also just keeps thinking, “just hold on!”
As they come down over one of the smaller falls there’s four people on the boat. Then there’s 3 people. Then 4. Then 3 again. Then 4 as they go down the big drop. And then they float on past some poor camera guy in the water filming them as they go past!

As they go over the edge of the fall, Sammy lets out a scream, but not of horror, she’s loving it. When they pull in to the side of the river Sammy’s got a massive grin on her face.
Sammy knows she can conquer anything, do anything she wants.
Michelle says that’s great! Because she’s not done. She’s going to do the rest of the rapids… On a little kickboard thingy. That looks totally safe with all the rocks and whatnot that make the rapids be all… rough.
Hmm.

… annnnd Sammy’s back to horrified!
Michelle says she has to do this one on her own because once she leaves the House she won’t have Michelle for backup, she’ll have to do it on her own.
But despite her nervousness when Michelle asks her if she’s ready Sammy immediately says yes!
The guide explains she has to jump out onto the water with the sled thing and kick like mad to get out into the center of the river.

Michelle is on the side of the river, “God, Sammy, what have I done to you?” Michelle laughs a bit but she looks concerned, too.
Not quite as concerned as Sammy looks before each big drop down a rapid bit.
Last rapid there’s a huge rock out in the middle but fortunately Sammy avoids it and then the big grin comes back!

Once she gets out of the water she throws her hands in the air and lets out a squeak and says it was awesome!

Michelle says that covers all the bases and she’s so proud of her. She addressed fear of heights, fear of fear, fear of water!
Sammy says she’s shut out the demon, the one who keeps telling her she can’t do things and why bother anyone? That demon is shut out now and she loved today.

Sean’s turn!
Sean’s biggest fear is failure, apparently.
He walks down the edge of a lake to meet Shannan. Sean admits he’s feeling a little nervous.
Back on Fitzroy Sean thought he was fit beforehand but couldn’t even make it through the first training session on the beach. He’s come a long way!
Sean says people used to look at him and think he was lazy because he was fat and he also didn’t get to spend the time with the kids he’d’ve liked to.

Shannan says what Sean’s challenge will be, is going for a swim. Then Shannan steps behind Sean and tells Sean to look back over Shannan’s shoulder to see what he’s doing.
Um. That’s the direction from whence Sean supposedly came. You’d think he would have already noticed the gigantic red helicopter!

Shannan says it’s not just a swim. They’re going to jump out of the helicopter while travelling at 5 knots and 10 metres above the surface.
Shannan’s grinning throughout the explanation. Clearly, clearly mental!
Shannan tells Sean water can be soft or as hard as concrete. There can’t be any hesitation or he might hurt himself.

We can’t hear the boys too well over the sound of the chopper so they have them subtitled. But the subtitler is spelling Shannan’s name wrong. Seriously, you got it wrong last time and you’re still getting it wrong now? Sheesh!
Sean says he wouldn’t’ve tried this 2 months ago. It would have been the first tidal wave in New Zealand!
Tsunami, and I doubt it’d be the first. BUT ANYWAY.

Sean steps out onto the helicopter’s skid and prepares himself to jump out. He’s looking a little nervous!
He’s still not sure if he’ll be able to do it. But if he doesn’t conquer his fear today then the fear has conquered him and he doesn’t want to leave New Zealand like that.

All clear to go, they unhook Sean’s safety line… and when it’s time to jump he goes straight in. Looks like the drop took forever! He goes a long way under but then bobs back up to the surface and gives the thumbs up.
The instructor guy says Sean did it perfectly, textbook jump.
Then it’s Shannan’s turn! Shannan grins and hops off the helicopter with no dramas at all.

Once they get on the boat Shannan says it’s a once in a lifetime thing and what can he do now? Whatever the hell he wants!
“Exactly. Like this!” Sean then tries a backflip off the boat but doesn’t really get far over. Still, funny!

Cam’s turn, he’s with Michelle for this.
Michelle says Cam’s biggest fear is fear of change. He likes being in his routine and in his comfort zone and if anything changes in that, he freaks out. Which we’ve seen a few times this season…
Cam’s been thinking about facing his fears for a couple of days and it’s been stressing him out.
Michelle says kia ora to Cam from the base of a cliff as he’s walking past. Then she tells him they’re going to do something amazing together.

Yeah. That’s a mental image I needed, too.

Apparently they’re going to abseil down a 30m cliff. Cam’s never even thought of doing such things before because he’s always been too big.
Cam doesn’t want to be on a flat line with no ups and downs because people on a flat line are dead!

Michelle tells Cam that abseiling is not really that different to any of his other challenges. The first step is always the hardest.
Cam’s getting a little nervous during the safety lecture.
But Michelle says the thing she loved about Cameron today was that instead of talking himself out of doing it, he was talking himself into it!
“I can do it. Little steps then this is just a big step. Out of that comfort zone, girl!”

As Cam approaches the edge he says he has a little too much slack in the line and he should have had it tighter but on the edge of a 30 metre drop? He wasn’t going to be playing around with the rope!
But before we find out if Cameron plummets to his death, we get an ad break. Oh no, will Cam be okay?!

Yes, of course he is. They wouldn’t be airing it otherwise!

Cam slowly edges out over the side. I’ve no idea why they got him to swing out onto the rock face instead of walking back over it like Michelle had obviously done. Bit strange, especially considering Cam’s the less capable of the two.
Cam says it’s not as easy as it looks (yes it is) and Michelle was only holding up 50-60kg and he was holding up 120kg so he had to hold on twice as hard.
No. But anyway. He’s not freaking out and that’s a big improvement over what he’d’ve done 2 months ago!

Cam does everything perfectly on the way down… But when he gets right down to the bottom he falls flat on his butt, again. “It knows its way down!”
Michelle says the Cam she sees at the end is the Cameron she always knew was in there.

Cam knows he can attack things he’d never thought about before. And the more weight he loses the more easily he can do those things!

Tomorrow night, Face Your Fears continues!
Tiffany looks to be skydiving, Meaghan’s challenge will be “breathtaking”. Looks like she’ll be swinging off of something. Weee!