TBL 5×15: Mmmm, Mexican Temptation

Previously on The Biggest Loser “The Firm” sent the Pink Ladies home, with much sadness and recriminations following!

Also, Anthony Mundine visited Camp for a special training session.

Tonight the contestants say goodbye to their old selves… and then turn around and have to face Temptations like they had with their old lives. Hmm. I don’t think they thought that through.


Michelle has something special in store for her training group. She’s told them to grab the clothes they wore on Day One and meet her on the top oval.
She then tells them all to get their old clothes on. Michelle says it’s particularly a lesson for those of them who can’t see the changes in their bodies. They’re getting fitter and stronger and losing weight and this will illustrate it much more clearly.
Daina’s got an inch of two of clearance on her jeans… Caitlin’s got about a foot of clearance! Michelle says they’d just about come straight off… but not quite, her butt hold them up.

David lets go of his pants and they drop straight down.

But they’re not done – Michelle wants them to train in their clothes!
Going to be easier for some than others…

Michelle is adamant that this is the last time they’ll be that size.

After training Michelle leads them over to a big barrel. Full of FIRE.
Michelle says she wants them to take off their clothes and burn them. Daina gives a nervous giggle.
Phil says to us that while they knew it represented the change they’d gone through for some of them it was their favourite outfits, too.

Phil’s outfit was what he wore to his son’s baptism two years ago. But byebye, into the fire!
Daina’s jeans are her favourite jeans that she’d wear all the time.
They’re all happy to have done it in the end. There’s probably homeless people in Sydney who aren’t so happy about it…

After an ad break the contestants file out to the parade ground where a wild west set has been set up. Or something. Not entirely sure what it’s supposed to be but the guys are hoping it’ll involve MEAT!

Hayley says the winner of today’s Temptation will get a special power that will affect every single person in a profound way.
After Temptation two teams will be formed. And the winner today will decide the teams.

However the teams won’t exactly be even. For the next week one couple will be going head to head against the other five couples with the final showdown being at the next weigh-in. The lone couple must beat the average of the other five couples’ weightloss.
If they succeed they get the only vote at the next elimination. But if the one couple fails, they face elimination.

Oh, one more thing, Hayley says. Next elimination? Only one person will be eliminated.

So there’s quite a bit of power on offer today so who’s prepared to snatch it up?

Apparently a “little bit of Tijuana” has come to Camp Biggest Loser. Today’s Temptation is what you may call a Mexican Standoff, declares Hayley. Sigh.
Two couples stand off over a barrel. There’s a plate with mexican food on the barrel, obscured under a klosh.
And there’s a maracca on the barrel. Whoever grabs the maracca first wins the round but they have to eat the food, as does their partner. The winning couple then chooses who to face next.

If neither couple goes for it then whoever was standing there first wins by default.

Daina and Caitlin will be the first couple to play and they’ll also get to pick who they play first. This is due to them being the previous holders of Immunity.

Caitlin and Daina choose Shannon and Chris to face first. They’re trying to get rid of the non-Firm members first. And they figure the Blue boys are the most likely to be tempted and this way if they’re going to eat and win they’re going to have to eat a whole lot!

First Temptation is a beef enchilada. Doesn’t look that nice, though I’m generally a fan of an enchilada. 265 calories in total.
They’ll have 60 seconds to grab the maracca if they’re going to.

Surprisingly the boys don’t instantly grab the maracca.
Caitlin says her and Daina don’t want to take Temptation but they’re trying to get Chris and Shannon to think they will.
But Chris and Shannon aren’t having a bar of it. Chris even takes a step back from the barrel.

Time expires and nobody goes for it so Chris and Shannon are out!

Jarna and Lisa are called up next. They’re not thrilled that The Firm got control to start with but nothing they can do about that now.

Next dish is a chicken burrito worth 432 calories! Looks foul, too cheesy, not chickeny enough!
Jarna loves Mexican food so it’s really tempting. Jarna fakes going for it once but they had no intention of going for it.

So now Caitlin and Daina are through the non-Firm members. And Daina’s relieved, figuring none of the others would challenge them.

569 calories. For chilli chocolates. That look really delicious. But Phil and David are having none of it either.
Rick and Joe face nachos. 745 calories worth of nachos. Daina looks horrified. Caitlin looks tempted.

Final opponents are Wayne and Phoebe. Will they be the first to cave?

Traditional mexican dessert that I can’t spell. That’s the final dish. Worth 1,265 calories. Yikes!
Phoebe says it’s a lot of food and she’d never eat that much dessert.

Hayley flips the hourglass over and says time starts now.
Wayne immediately grabs the maracca. Daina asks why he would do that and Caitlin says he’s power hungry, that’s what it is. Why would he take it when someone for The Firm is standing right there.

Hayley congratulates them and says to make it official they have to eat the food, first.
Phoebe looks at it and figures it might be possible, it’s only about 600 calories between them, that’s doable.
Hayley then gives them the good news – they won’t have to share it. They’ve got one for each of them.

Honestly, if I was in Phoebe’s position? I’d tell Wayne to have fun trying to eat them both because I sure as hell wouldn’t be helping him.

Caitlin sits down on the sidelines, she doesn’t want to look at Wayne because she’s disgusted by what he’d done. Daina tells her not to crack it because Wayne must have plan that he’s worked out.

Wayne explains that the reason he took it was because he and Phoebe would then be against the other five Couples.
Phoebe says the dessert is like a spoonful of maple syrup with something crunchy in it and she’s struggling from the start.
Wayne says it’d never be easy to eat that much food but he’s almost done and Phoebe’s still only on her fourth or fifth spoonful. Don’t do it!
Hayley asks her how she’s going and she doesn’t look happy. Big deep breathe.
Wayne asks if he’s allowed to take on the rest of Phoebe’s dish and Hayley shakes her head…

Phoebe’s chewing it up a lot to delay the swallowing each time because she knew she’d have to keep doing it and she’s starting to feel like she’ll vomit before she can finish!

Daina’s looking very, very amused!

After another ad break Hayley reminds Wayne and Phoebe if she doesn’t finish they don’t win.
Phoebe pulls the pin and says she can’t finish it, she feels so sick.

Wayne is very disappointed that he ate the whole dish and Phoebe only ended up eating about 5 spoonfuls, which he thought was a poor effort.
Yeah, it’s a real shame Phoebe didn’t make an absolute pig of herself to screw over the members of her Alliance…
Caitlin says it was karma coming back to bite him!

Hayley announces to the other contestants that Caitlin and Daina have won the power of deciding which couple will go up against the other five couples for the entire week.

Daina and Caitlin surprisingly choose to be the one against five couple, with Michelle as their trainer. Daina says she chose that course so she can sacrifice herself for Caitlin if she needs to.

Chris thinks that maybe Phoebe was using her “inability” to eat the dish as a little demonstration of her power.
… nahhhhhhh, you can’t fake that look on her face. She tried her best!

Jarna can feel the tension in the air between the others and she thinks it’s great because they can go have their own little argument now!

Tomorrow night, five couples come together for training… And one might be falling apart!
Then it’s reward time. Cute little kiddies! No idea who owns them but I’m guessing one of the people who have cute little kiddies…