TBL 7×11 – A Twelve Hour Temptation. A TWELVE HOUR TEMPTATION.

Previously on The Biggest Loser poor Shane was sent home.

The Biggest Brother spy cameras were revealed to the trainers with many horrible revelations of secret eating and not so secret slacking off.

The contestants all did some public speaking and will be getting rewarded for their success tonight.

Later, Temptation rears its ugly head once more with everyone being locked in their bedrooms for a twelve hour stretch with seemingly only a pile of junk food to eat. Nasty!

But first a replay of a bunch of the speaking bits from last night on the stage to remind us what the contestants are about to be rewarded for.
Their surprise is waiting for them back at Camp.

So they go back to Camp and they see a bunch of photos on the walls of their friends and family. Awwww!
Also, a letter from… someone. I imagine they all get their own letters and not just a copy of the same one from someone they don’t know.


Simon’s letter is from one of his sons. He says he’s glad his Dad is off getting healthy and will finally be skinny for the first time in his memory. Son misses Dad but doesn’t want to see him again till they let him out at the end!

Michelle’s letter is from her Mum. Her Mum and Dad and her dogs all miss her. Awww! Another “never been in love, never been on a date” montage. And her Mum says God has given her the opportunity. Maybe God could’ve organised a boyfriend for her while he was at it? Lazy git.

Bek’s letter is also from her Mum.
Brenda’s letter is from… Dunno?
Hamish’s is from Mum.
Graham’s is from Mum? Dad?
Lydia’s is from… Friend?

Lots of people being proud of them and wishing them the best and so on.

Luke’s letter is from… sister?
Lisa’s is from her sons.

This is pretty boring and full of tears.

Kasey’s Mum wants Kasey to teach her how to eat!

Alex’s letter is from his sister? Who may just be a Firefly fan! “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run then walk. If you can’t walk then crawl.” And if you can’t crawl?

Ryan’s Mum is his best friend. Not gunna lie, that’s pretty sad for a grown ass man. Fair enough he can’t get a date but not even any friends better than his Mum?
I guess it’s possible his Mum is just that awesome. Someone out there probably knows!

Selena’s letter is from her little sister. She misses her big sister. Awww. Little sister wants her to keep trying so she can be around for a long time to come.

After an ad break it’s time for more training! Blue Team are in the spinbike room.
Shannan wants the lads to use their letters from home as motivation today to do better.

Shannan’s been setting them homework for them morning and night but it hasn’t been getting done. Hamish wants to make his folks proud but he’s not acting like it, Shannan says.
Shannan sets the boys a challenge – as far as they can ride in 5 minutes. Shannan knows the favourite is Luke but something unexpected happens. Hamish manages to keep up and even pull ahead of Luke as they go past the halfway mark.
And Luke’s not slacking off in the slightest, he’s still going hard right to the end and they both end up managing 3.4km at the end.

Shannan asks him afterwards why he doesn’t do that every time? What goes through his head while he’s training? Hamish says nothing, he doesn’t know what to think while training, he doesn’t know what’ll push or drive him.
Shannan says to him that he’s got to take some of the responsibility there because he’d never really thought of it before. He’s been around athletes and training his entire life so he’s never really thought about what you think to push yourself.
Shannan says you can either go into the pain that’s hurting you while you train and address it mentally. And he has to think about if he stops, he’ll disappoint Shannan and himself. He has to keep going to change his life.

After Shannan pushes him through five more double arm weight lift things he gets Hamish to go straight into single arm lifts.

And then to round off the training session he gets Hamish back up on the spinbike for another 5 minute sprint against his earlier distance. And this time Shannan asks him what the voice inside him is saying this time and Hamish says he’s thinking about beating his Dad. And the pain really isn’t so bad, is it? No!
And Hamish has a bit of fire in his eyes, Shannan tells us. Hasn’t seen that before!

Hamish then manages to get back to his 3.4k mark with 3 seconds to spare on the second run.
He’s in tears afterwards thinking about all the times he’s let his Dad down.
But he doesn’t need to be scared anymore, he’s got three other guys there to look out for him and support him.

Shannan thinks Hamish will now repeat that level of effort every day. Might be a bit optimistic there, mate!

Mish’s team is in the Loser Lounge and Margie’s arm is in a sling after the boxing session last night. She’s been off and had a cortisone injection and some painkillers and is thus out of action for today.

Mish hopes the rest of the team will be spurred on by their letters from home and it looks like they’ve had the desired result for Lydia. Her letter was from one of her best mates.
Lydia needs to fight her demons and now she knows what they are. She has to be honest, stop manipulating people, less judgemental of other people and she has to stop lying to herself. After that she breaks down in tears and gets a big hug from Mish and congratulations for taking the first step.
Mish tells us you have to admit the failures of the past in order to move on.
After taking another couple of deep breaths Lydia bends her back and starts dragging her tire across the paradeground once more. At a bit of a jog, too!

Mish tells Lisa she’s very proud of what she said last night and she thinks that was a big shift in her attitude and it’s showing in her training now.
Lisa’s dead son would be proud of her. If he was there now he’d be sitting on the tire and telling her to go!
Zombie sons are excellent motivation, it seems.

After training they’re all showered and back in their team colours and headed back to their rooms. All at the same time. Which doesn’t seem like a setup at all!

As they get into the room they’re shocked to discover all kinds of junk food heaped on a table and a fridge with various unhealthy drinks and a pie warming oven with pies and sausage rolls and just generally heaps of delicious foods that they can’t touch without their trainers being DISAPPOINTED.

There’s also a letter. For the next twelve hours they’re on bedroom lockdown. Nobody can leave the room.
Hope they’ve got a bathroom in there!
But they’re not going to go hungry. They’ve been provided with a variety of snacks and beverages.
Temptation this week is simple – the team that consumes the most calories at the end of the 12 hours will win the best prize of all.

TEAM IMMUNITY.

Needless to say all the teams are quite tempted by that thought. They’d all love that guaranteed extra week at Camp.

Meanwhile the trainers arrive at The Bunker to find their own letter explaining what’s going on. For the first time in Biggest Loser history they’re going to get to watch a Temptation live, as it happens!
They’re all gobsmacked!
Shannan says he can only imagine how much a team could put away in twelve hours given how well the rooms are stocked.

The timer starts and so does the strategising!

Red Team are thinking they won’t even take part. They don’t need the Immunity, they’ll be above the Yellow Line anyway and Mish would cane them!

Black Team are discussing it. How many calories would Simon have eaten tonight, Alex asks. Simon misunderstands and says he wouldn’t eat any tonight, thinking of what’s on offer.
Alex says that taking into account the calories, the food options are still no good because of all the extra nasties like fat and salt content.

So they all sit down on their beds and say they’re not going to do it, they’re not going to take part in the game. They’re just there to do the right thing and lose their weight and not be tempted to eat. And if they’re going to be tempted to do it at Camp they’re never going to avoid it on the outside, Graham points out.
Steve looks quietly pleased by his boys!

Alex muses out loud that Blue are the ones most likely to succumb to Temptation.

Cut to Blue working out their calories for the day and how many they’ve got left in their dietary budget of sorts. They have a total of 1,200 calories they can eat and the three of them all have about half that remaining for the day. Luke tells us that if they can justify to Shannan why they took Temptation and prove they were in control, they can do it.

Hamish is the voice of reason on the team and asks them if they’re not at Camp to try and get away from all this Temptation.

Ryan says he needs another week there. If he gets on the scales and only loses two kilos because he’s been sick this week will Hamish be able to get up on the scales and lose enough with Luke to pull them through?
YOU COCK. If you only lose two kilos it’s because you keep eating entire packets of ham and turkey one after another. It’s probably also why you’ve been sick, bloody idiot.
Shannan’s onto him though. He says to the other trainers that Ryan’s the master manipulator, trying to manipulate the other boys.

Ryan’s got them though. Hamish is telling us that he had no choice once he found out it was a team effort, but he could easily have refused. Needs to get some more self confidence!

Shannan is very worried. He thinks once they start they’re going to find it very hard to stop.

White Team are weighing up their options, too. Bek’s telling them they could do 300 calories each since they won’t be having dinner anyway.
But Tiff will be so disappointed, Kasey or Michelle says.
They’re worried about being below the Yellow Line again since they’ve been under both times before.
Tiff says she’s screaming to herself, “NO! NO!”

So early signs are a few of the teams are sorely tempted.

White’s discussing what’s tempting them. Kasey’s most tempted by the pies and sausage rolls, not so much the chocolate-y things. Michelle would love a caramel nougat bar. Bek’s also on the pie train. And you can’t have a meat pie without tomato sauce!

But the pies are 479 calories. Which is well over what they were thinking of eating. Dearie me!

And now Red’s debating what they’d have, as well. Tiff’s sympathising with Mish!
Lydia and Margie are both sniffing at the pies. After Lydia wanders off Margie sticks her finger on the pies and sausage rolls and sniffs the finger. Seriously. Mish looks disgusted.
“I hate being a fatty!” Says Margie. But she’s on the bed and not partaking so far so there’s hope for them yet!

Black’s the only ones doing anything much constructive yet. They’ve resolved to keep walking for the entire twelve hours in shifts. Maybe do some other exercises in between. Alex says you can even stop and have a yarn, look at the crap food, talk to the food and say it’s not going in his belly.

Shannan wonders how long the pacts not to eat will last once they’re getting hungry and thirsty and tired later on.

Michelle says they’re tempted to partake as the tummies are starting to grumble a bit.
Michelle tears pages out of a notebook and says they should all write down whether or not they want to take part and then they’ll all turn them around at once.
Bunch of girls, seriously. Who does that? Weird people, that’s who!
Steve didn’t understand what was going on so Mish and Tiff have to explain it to him.

So how have the votes gone? Dunno, not revealing them to us. Booo!

Meanwhile in the Blue room Hamish is the first to grab some food. Cheese and crackers. 212 calories. Shannan says the scary bit about that is that he wasn’t even going to take part originally but was swayed by the others. And it didn’t really take much convincing.
Shannan and Tiff have both likened food to drugs now. One taste of it and it’s hard to get back out of that mindset once you start.

Luke and Ryan both succumb shortly after. Luke to some cheese and crackers while Ryan has a vegetarian quiche, which might not be a terrible option.
But it looks really small in Ryan’s hand. Tiny, tiny quiche for a very large man.

Black Team, meanwhile, are still wandering around and around the table of junk and not partaking. Steve’s very proud of them all. He says he has to believe in them because if he won’t, who will?

Red Team’s looking at the cheese and crackers. 212 calories. Five crackers and five pieces of cheese to put on them. Margie’s looking at them very hungrily and Mish thinks she’s the one who’s most likely to crack.

Biggest Loser being sponsored by an appetite suppressant pill feels really wrong. Just sayin’!

Three of the teams are still holding out. White are talking about boys! Michelle says good men are hard to find and that’s why she hasn’t found one yet!

Meanwhile Blue are STILL EATING.
Hamish picks up a chocolate bar. After having a sausage roll earlier, apparently. And Ryan’s sucking down more cartons of flavoured milk. Shannan is growing increasingly distressed. He was happy with them for studying the nutrition and working out the best option but now they’ve thrown that right out the window and gone for the chocolate.

Mish is also a bit disappointed by her team not getting up and doing some training. They’re all just slugging around in bed and not doing anything and nobody’s taking the initiative to kick some bums into gear.

Blue? Lazing around. But Luke finally gets up and starts to burn off the calories they’re supposed to each day. He starts off well with some situps and pushups with a medicine ball and bouncing it off a wall.
But then they fall apart. Walking around the table one at a time and tossing the ball to the guys on the bed.
It’s not much different from what Black are doing but the difference is Black have been doing it consistently for hours and all three Blacks are carrying various injuries.

Blue put a doona over the food in the centre of the room, finally. Trying to put it out of sight and thus out of mind.

The only problem? They’re only bothering to do it with ten minutes to go! Woeful. Shannan’s not at all impressed. Mish wonders why they didn’t do that at the start!

But the timer is finally counting down the final seconds. Three of the teams are lounging around doing nothing, Black are all on their feet walking around their table all the way through!

Now the trainers are all wondering what the hell they do now after having seen the contestants behaviour at Temptation. How can they face them in training knowing what they know?
And remember, the first rule of Biggest Brother Bunker Club: You do not talk about Biggest Brother Bunker Club!

The contestants all wander off to chat to Hayley. They’re asked who thinks another team played? Pretty much everyone sticks their hand up.

Black Team, in twelve hours, consumed 0 calories! They get a round of applause for their effort.
Ryan’s mystified. He wonders why they wouldn’t’ve played after being below the Line last week.

Maybe we could get another show of hands. Who’s surprised the guy who’s constantly pigging out behind his trainer’s back still doesn’t get the point of watching what you eat?
Nobody? Yeah, thought not.

Red Team’s turn. In twelve hours they ate… 0 calories as well!

Hamish’s face falls while he’s applauding their effort. Think he’s realised that the Blue Team’s result is going to look very, very bad in comparison.
Margie admits she was really tempted by the cheese and crackers. But no beer, so she was fine. Gotta have the beer with the cheese. Hayley takes a note of that and says they need to organise some beer for the next one, then.
Uhoh!

Two teams left, White and Blue.
White’s been under the Yellow Line at both Weigh-Ins. Was it tempting? Sure was!

Blue’s worried about the same thing.

Blue, in twelve hours you consumed… 2,745 calories. Disgraceful!

White Team you consumed…?

Tomorrow night we find out who’s going to win. Has the White Team lost the plot and eaten a ridiculous amount of food? Or have they also done 0 calories and they’re just trying to psych us out?

And the Temptation workout routines will be scrutinised by the trainers.

And then… PIIIIIIIIIIIGS. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN. MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUD!