Previously on The Biggest Loser… BIGGEST CONTESTANT EVER!

Also, Bek spat the dummy and got ejected from Tiff’s dojang, the first to ever be kicked out by Tiffiny and perhaps the first to be told to get out by a trainer?

Tonight, biological age doctor guy is back to give them the bad news! A dump truck full of a representative amount of lard is there to disgust us all.
And it looks like the first Temptation of the year has a Wheel of Fortune element to it. With Immunity on the line and it being so early in the competition you can bet a few will take a punt!

But first we’re back to Tiffiny pushing Bek to her breaking point – and beyond!
“Get out of my dojang now!” “FINE!”

Tiff’s still very riled up after Bek leaves and takes a few seconds to seethe before heading off after her. Bek’s sitting on a bench outside on the front porch.
Bek tells Tiff she was pushing as hard as she can, she’d been throwing up but she was pushing and had no more to give.
Tiff tells her that what she thinks is pushing, isn’t really pushing. Tiffiny’s the instructor and it’s her job to know how far Bek can really push, and Tiffiny is sure Bek can go harder than that.
“Do you trust me?” “I don’t know yet.” She can’t instantly trust someone, Tiff has to earn her trust. And Tiff responds that Bek has to earn her respect and yelling at her and throwing a bar at her head is not the way to do it.
Bek tries to claim it was over here head and in he replay… it’s not over by a lot and it also almost hits a fellow contestant.
Bek does apologise for it though and understands that it’s not on. But she still insists she was pushing as hard as she can.

Michelle, on the other hand, has the right ninja attitude! Tiff says that she knows she has to work hard and she’s just getting down to it.
She’s been hiding away by herself at home and Tiff’s got to show her that there’s another way, a way that leads to happiness and love.

Hang on, I’m going to be sick. She said that, not me. Although I’m not far behind if they keep talking about all this love business!
Kasey’s worried that with Bek storming out and Michelle puking they’re not going to make it through their first session. In which case they may as well go home!

Meanwhile Ryan’s still lying on his back in the boxing ring telling Shannan he can’t do it. Shannan says the excuses aren’t going to fly because he’s been doing this with 200kg+ guys all his life!
Young Hamish is helping Ryan do some step ups onto a bench which honestly doesn’t look sturdy enough to hold Ryan. Not trying to be rude, it’s just a weak looking bench and Ryan’s a big fella!

After a few ups and downs he eventually collapses back onto the tires ringing the gym. Shannan comes over and talks to him. He says he can be a hero to millions if he has the guts to get up now. He can either stay on the ground and give up or he can get up and do it.
Shannan says what Ryan does here will define him for the rest of the show. All Shannan needs to see is a glimmer of hope in Ryan’s eyes and he can work with that.
And, with a bunch of help from his Team, he manages to get back to his feet once more.

Shannan sits them down afterwards and says Blue Team’s philosophy is hard but fair. If you see someone else up and about, you get up and train too. No excuses. Blue for life! \o/

And now we finally get to see Commando Steve’s first session. Age brings determination but also deterioration, Steve says. So the first session is about who can go the distance.
His main concern at this stage is Alex. At fifty years old and 160kg he’s got to take the opportunity by the horns or he’ll be dead very soon.

Steve’s got the lads doing pushups and Alex is struggling mightily, barely managing to get himself off the ground. But he is managing!
A while later Steve has him lifting weights. Or, more precisely, lifting a bar that you would ordinarily put weights on. Alex finds it a tough ask after the rest of the training they’ve done. Should be fun to watch if he can hang in there a few weeks!

After an ad break Alex is still flopped on the ground after lifting the weight.
But he’s not giving up, he gets back up under his own steam, repeating “Mum” under his breath. He loves his Mum. Awwww! His Mum died of heart problems but he thinks she’ll be proud of him when he gets out.
Alex lifts the weight back up and pushes it above his head a few times.
Steve’s very impressed by Alex’s determination to keep going, even through the tough parts.

Then we’re in the Loser Lounge and… Margie is stroking Simon’s arm and Simon strokes her hand back. WHAT?

Anyway, Hayley wanders in and surprises them all. She’s there to ask them all how they ended up on the show.

Michelle’s first. She’s been overweight since the third grade apparently. She’s always been the chubby outsider.
“Tell me about boys.” HAHAHAHA. Boys are mean, don’t you know this yet Hayley? You need Michelle to tell you about them? Geez.
Anyway, Michelle says that boys don’t really exist for her. She’s never had a boyfriend though she’s thought about it constantly. Maybe a boy likes her but they’re probably just being friendly. Never kissed a boy. James looks on with interest. And a rosy hue to the cheeks.
Brenda says she’ll be batting them off with a stick in a few weeks!

Luke says he wants that “perfect life” of running a pub and having a wife and kids and being a part of the country community. To do that he needs to be as close to perfect himself as he can be. He’s worried about being alone for a long time. He’s got so much love to give! But he thinks most girls would just look at him like he’d be a nice fat friend to have.
He’s falling in love with himself this week, he says. He’s not loved himself before.

Lydia’s number one reason for being there is having horses and she spends all her time around them. It’s actually surreal to her, being there and not having her horses around. They’re everything to her.
When she goes to shows people are amazed that someone so overweight would actually ride a horse.
Lydia would hate not to have children but it would be hard to have kids on her own. But why wouldn’t someone be there, Hayley asks? Because Lydia can’t see why anyone would want her to be the mother of their children.
MAYBE THEY LIKE HORSES TOO? It takes all kinds. I’ve heard.

Anyway, Hayley has to cover her face and have a cry at that.

Hayley’s wondering why, since people gravitate to her. Margie’s got superglue, won’t leave her alone.
Lydia laughs and says that’s not exactly the life she envisaged for herself. Margie has a laugh at that too.

Shane’s a single Dad. His son’s mildly autistic and has only just started to communicate. Spoke to him the other day though and the first three words out of his mouth were, “Love you Dad!” Awww! First time Shane’s heard that from him.

Selena’s problems started when her parents split up. She was wondering why her Dad was leaving and why her Mum didn’t want anything to do with her. Maybe if she was the perfect daughter it wouldn’t be happening.
Selena got bullied so badly in high school she’d wake up every morning in fear of her life. She couldn’t tell her Mum about it. And one day she came home with bruises and a cut lip but she didn’t tell her Mum it was the bullies, she said she got hit by a car.
Selena wants to get back to her dream goal of being a midwife when she gets out. But she needs to be healthy herself before she can help others with their health.

Lisa’s weight gain started when she had kids. She never lost the weight again after that and then you focus on your kids.
Hayley says she has two sons herself and she knows Lisa has two sons and one that unfortunately passed away. Four years ago one of her boys went to school and never came home. They think it was anaphylaxis (allergic reaction to a stimulus) and, obviously, it was pretty traumatic.
She has a tattoo of the letter B as a reminder of her son Braden. It has a halo above the B but it also has a devil tail because he was her angel, but also her little devil.
Her other two boys are self sufficient, “sort of”. As much as boys can be, Hayley suggests. And so Lisa decided it was time to get her own health in order this year.

Simon’s story started when he was younger. He met the love of his life and they got married. She already had a daughter and they went on to have two sons. But his weight started to increase and that caused some tension between them. And one day his wife said she couldn’t do it anymore and two weeks later she’d moved out and was living elsewhere. Poor fella.
His step-daughter has moved out of home now but she’s a beautiful young girl and he’s so proud of her. That causes more tears and Margie folds him up in a big hug and some of the other girls pat his leg. Awwwwww! Seems Margie’s the biggest softie in the group though. Hope she sticks around to be the big gay Mum to everyone!
Simon says he’s only been there a few days but he already counts everyone in the room as a friend. Lots of nods of agreement from the group. Could be interesting, if they’re going to have a Camp-wide bond that’s going to make the Elimination process… INTRIGUING!

But now it’s time for Dr Norman Swan to talk to them all about their obesity problem. He reminds them, as if they’ve forgotten, that they’re the heaviest group they’ve ever had at Camp.
Ryan’s the heaviest in the world, too. Got that, Ryan? YOU’RE SUPER FAT.

Most of their combined weight is fat. Anything up to 60% fat. Up to one and a half tons of fat. Do you have any idea what that looks like? WELL YOU’RE ABOUT TO!

Small dump truck backs into the warehouse they’re sitting in. Alex doesn’t look bothered at all. Unsurprising, he’s a butcher by trade. He’s seen worse, no doubt!
All the trainers are there for this presentation, too. All four of them are sitting at the far ends. Almost as if they know what’s coming!

After another long ad break a whole bunch of cow fat is pouring out of the truck. Causing a lot of mouths covered by hands and dry retching. Tiffiny looks horrified. Alex is still looking at it like it’s no big deal.
Surprisingly Hamish also doesn’t seem too bothered.

Everyone’s amazed at just how much fat there is on the ground now.
Dr Swan says they know from research that this sort of fat buildup can lead to cancer, can lead to heart problems. You can even die if you’re in an accident and you’re too fat for the ambulance to take you to hospital. Or you get to hospital and they don’t have a trolley to carry you inside.

Brenda’s trying desperately not to look at it and is fighting the urge to throw up.
Dr Swan kindly offers to let her swap with Mish.

MISH IS NOT AMUSED. She’s visibly uncomfortable by being sat right in front of the whole disgusting mess.

But now it’s time for the Bio Age fun!
Paul Taylor’s back. He’s done all the tests on them already, we get some cutaways of them doing squats and lung capacity tests and measurements and all the rest.

First up is Ryan.

Ryan Chrono: 29
Ryan Bio: 44

Fifteen years more than he should be. Honestly? That’s really not so bad considering his size. It’s not great, obviously. But it’s not the worst we’ll see, I suspect.

Simon Chrono: 40
Simon Bio: 54

Simon thinks he’s raised his kids well and he’s hoping he might make a good grandfather and he’s devastated he might not get the chance. But he’s prepared to do the work to make it happen.

Brenda Chrono: 40
Brenda Bio: 49

Brenda’s struggled with fertility for a long time. And Dr Swan says 50 year old women don’t have babies.
The science doesn’t really back you on that one, Doc.
Anyway, he says the fact that she’s overweight affects her hormone levels. Her fat is effectively acting like a contraceptive, it’s preventing her from conceiving.
How long has she been trying to get pregnant? She struggles to answer at first and eventually says seven years.
If she works hard and gets the fat out of her body the hormones should fall back into line and she should be able to conceive. Hooray!

Alex is 50 and he smokes and drinks “like a Hell’s Angel” and it’s royally screwed him over, it seems.

Alex Chrono: 50
Alex Bio: 71

GOOD GOD. It’s a wonder he’s not dead already. That’s appalling. Alex is horrified and chokes out that he doesn’t want to be that old. He tells us he thinks he might only have 3 years left to live, the way he feels.

Shane Chrono: 38
Shane Bio: 58

Shane says he’s almost the same age as his own Dad.
Shane’s also a heavy smoker, Commando Steve says. He was on 25-30 a day, so he’s doing it tough at Camp. Steve passes him a pack of Nicorette patches, telling him it’ll stop the cravings.
Dr Swan tells him that simply by stopping smoking he’s knocked five years off his Bio Age already. If that’s not enough incentive for people…

Mish says this is the best place for them to turn around their Bio Ages and they’ve seen it happen before.

Tiff’s got her Team back in the dojang after the horror show. Bek’s telling us that she’s realised how badly she’s been treating herself and it’s got to stop.
Tiff says to the girls she’d be horrified if she got that information about herself. She says her twenties have been the best years of her life and missing out on that? That’d be awful.
She wants the girls to write her a letter as a promise to Tiff that they’re going to get their life back.

Steve’s team are also doing that. As are Mish’s. And Shannan’s. THIS SEEMS SPONTANEOUS AND UNPLANNED, TIFFINY. WHAT AN AWESOME IDEA.

Annnnnnnnnd now we’re getting our first shots of Biggest Brother’s cameras around Camp.
There’s quite a few of the girls in the gym nice and early.

The Blues? Nope. They’ve committed to being up at 6am every day and they’re totally not. And they’re totally not exercising when they do get up.
Shannan says if they’ve not been doing that, there’s going to be hell to pay!

After another ad break the Weigh-In Room has been turned into a gameshow for Temptation. Hayley even suggests the contestants “come on down!”
Wrong show, Hayley. That’s Price is Right, not Wheel of Fortune!

For those unfamiliar with Temptation the contestants are offered a delicious food item of some kind for a chance at a prize – usually Immunity from Elimination, or the chance to evict someone, or some other prize.

Today’s is Wheel of Misfortune. It’s a wheel with three Immunity wedges on it and a number of other wedges with numbers ranging from 50 to 1,000. If you get a wedge with a number on it, that’s how many calories you have to eat.

And Temptation will continue until Immunity is won.

First round, everyone’s remembering their newly found diets and calorie limits and trainers and they all resist.

Okay. Then we’ll add some more Immunity wedges to the wheel!

There’s now 9 Immunity wedges out of a total of 26. That’s a pretty fair bump to the odds.
James is feeling a little tempted but everyone says nooo, don’t do it James. Someone tells him Shannan would kill him and James says that’s a very good point!

Still no takers? Okay, how about if Hayley makes it a little more tempting.

Now there’s 13 Immunity wedges. 50-50 chance of getting Immunity.
And then Hayley gets a waiter to wheel out a trolley with the various calorie options remaining – just 50-350 remain.
350’s getting really close to the point where people won’t even get grumped at too much!

Everyone’s getting a lot more tempted.

200 calories: 40 grams of cheese crisps. ie; Doritos.
50 calories: 2 small pieces of chocolate.
350 calories: cheese and tomato toasted sandwich.

Everyone’s still telling James not to do it, but he’s more and more tempted. Will he fall for Hayley’s Temptation-y ways? Or will Hayley have to make it even more tempting?

Find out tomorrow night! ARG!

“You play, you pay!” Shannan’s talking like someone took part and we see him walk out of the gym and slam the door. So perhaps someone actually did it? Probably James, but we’ll see. It’d be pretty disappointing if the team most likely to win is the first to fall into the Temptation trap, wouldn’t it?

Also, the contestants take to the water to tow a ferry with rowboats. I’m… not excited by this prospect. I understand the physics but find pulling a train or a plane or a truck much more interesting and visually exciting. Just me?