Previously on The Biggest Loser it was the day the trainers all dread – Train the Trainers Day!

Then the contestants lead a thousand strong army of exercising people at Sydney Olympic Park. The contestants all showed a lot of confidence and had a great time.
Well, all the ones we’ve seen. Tonight we see Alex take his turn at training them.

Also tonight some fancy nibbly cooking with a chef followed by a fancy meet and greet and drinky nibbly funtimes. Time for the singles to mingle.

Gawd, I thought we were past that single/mingle crap?

Time for Steve to introduce Alex to the crowd. We miss Steve coming out on stage by himself so we don’t get to hear his cheer.

Alex has a busted rib so he can’t actually do the exercises he’s setting for them all so he’s got Commando to stick around on stage to demonstrate for him, much to the delight of the ladies. The crowd is pretty much all ladies!

They talk to some of the people afterwards and Steve’s a big hit and Alex is an inspiration, being able to lose all that weight at his age one of the young guys says.

Alex gets in the face of one girl, telling her working out like this is Commando style!
Then he runs around giving people high fives and one lady a hug after she fell over. Good fun, Alex loved every minute of it and he hopes what he’s passed on today will get passed on by them to even more people.

Trainers back on stage for the end of it. Time to reveal their bio age things? In front of a thousand people? Crikey!
The trainers are going to reveal to the contestants their new bio ages. Alex is really looking forward to it. He’s crazy!

Margie’s up first, quite a few people call good luck out to her.
Margie’s chrono age is 34 and her bio age was 44 at the start of the show.

Her new bio age? 29!!! Margie is ecstatic and Mish is very proud of her. It’s never too late, Mish tells us.
Margie’s now aiming to do even better than that, too.

Brenda’s up next. She’s had time at home, don’t forget.
She’d spent a long time in denial and then found herself at 40 years old and her life was slipping away.
Her chronological age is 40. Her original bio age was 49.

Her new bio age? 38!
Brenda asks if that means she can date younger men without being called a cougar now? Mwahahaha!
Shannan says her weight is no longer holding her back from having babies.

Brenda has a message for the 40+ crowd as well. Don’t waste your life feeling sorry for yourself, you can gain those years back and it doesn’t take anything more than blood, sweat and tears. You don’t have to be the fittest or the fastest, just consistent – Shannan taught her that.
Shannan goes through more of the preset script and starts asking Brenda if she’s proud of her new bio age but Brenda’s starting bouncing around gleefully instead. Ha!

Kasey! Kasey is 27 chronologically, the same age as Tiff.
Her old bio age was a staggering 39!

Her new bio age? 28! Back in her 20s. Only one year to get off, now. She feels like a 27 year old again. And she’ll be down to that by Finale, Tiff says.

Time for Alex! Steve asks him if he needs him to hold his hand while he walks out the front of the stage and Alex says yes and holds out his hand.
Steve gives him a shove and tells him to get up there.

Alex was 50 at the start and biologically he was 71. 71! 21 years older than he should be, it was crazy.
With all his injuries, he may not have brought it back as far as some of the others…

Alex’s new bio age… 54! That’s extraordinary work. 17 years brought back from the brink and Alex says it feels fantastic, but it’s not over yet and he’s going to get it back down to just above 40!

Now they’re back at Camp for one of the last training sessions they’ll have.
Mish is looking forward to seeing how Margie’s going and making sure she’s set for the weeks in between leaving camp and Finale… and of course for the rest of her life.

Those who don’t follow Mish on Twitter might be interested to know they actually went out jogging the morning after the Finale was taped!

Anyway, Margie’s feeling good about her training and she’s been putting in lots of extra work. She’s also trying to keep her extra training secret from the other contestants. She has a plan and her plan is to win!

Margie’s visualising herself at Finale being super fit and winning and so on, just like a real champion, Mish says.
Mish is throwing all the tricks in her exercise book today and Margie’s doing them all like a champ.

Margie tells us she’s a complex woman and she’s been struggling a bit over the last little while and she wants to take the time to apologise to Mish today, because she doesn’t want to have Mish feel like Margie was taking her for granted or anything.
Margie says this week has been about pulling her finger out and she’s way more hungry to be in the Top Three than she is for any apples or grapes!

Shannan’s got Brenda in an indoor gym today as Margie and Mish are using the outdoor one. It’s a rarity for them to be inside, Shannan says.
Brenda’s been getting up in the middle of the night to train and it’s having two effects, Shannan says. Not only is she getting fitter and burning calories it’s messing with the other contestants heads.
We see her walking through the halls in the middle of the night and it’s in nightvision and… I don’t think her clothes are completely opaque to infrared light. I think I just saw her bum.

Anyway!

Shannan’s looking to fully exhaust Brenda’s entire body today.

Shannan says he wants to dispel a myth for all the ladies, including Brenda. You won’t put a lot of muscle mass on by doing weight training! Resistance training is a good way of speeding up your metabolism, he says.
Brenda says Shannan’s an amazing trainer, very motivating.
Shannan says the system works, the diet and training work and if she sticks to it she can absolutely get in the final three.
Brenda’s always been afraid of failure and hasn’t wanted to get her hopes up but now she’s ready, bring it on!

The contestants are sitting in Loser Lounge having a chat when Hayley walks in. Often a bad sign!
Hayley’s talking about them being in their final week at Camp and they’ve come a long way since the start. They’ve gained a lot of confidence and will soon be leaving and maybe finding a soul mate on the outside.

So tonight they’re going to get in a bit of practice! A night to mingle and chat and flirt with some singles at the Biggest Loser Cocktail Party.
Alex and Kasey are both groaning and Alex suggests they hook up now to get out of it and Kasey laughs and agrees.

The contestants will not only be hosting the event, they’ll be the chefs!
Margie says there’ll be a lot of starving people then.

Michael Moore from the silver spoon temptation, big name chef, will be assisting them.

So, who’s going to be at the party? Well, each of their profiles was put up on the internet and they were flooded with emails wanting to meet them.
Ten people for each of them will be there tonight. Kasey’s a little nervous but she thinks it’s great that ten people would want to meet her. Oh Kasey, you’re so cute, who wouldn’t want to meet you and squish your cheeks and stuff.

They all have profiles for each of their potential dates in a folder and while they all have a flip through their own there seems more excitement about flicking through the other peoples!

I was about to note that the numbers would be a bit uneven, with three girl contestants and one guy but I forgot Margie would also have lady-dates. Hopefully, anyway. If they try to make her chat up some dudes there’s going to be trouble!

Time for kitchen shenanigans!
Michael Moore says he’s not sure if the contestants have ever really thought about the sorts of food at parties but it doesn’t have to be party pies, sausage rolls and pizzas.

Well, sure, don’t have those things. Then you wonder why it’s a shit party! Party pies FOREVER!

The first dish Michael reveals is a rare beef salad, with some enoki mushrooms and whatnot. In a little boat thing.
Alex will be preparing that because he’s a butcher.

Spiced chickpeas with walnuts and feta, a vegetarian dish, is actually more calorific than the rare beef salad. Brenda will be doing that one.

Tuna carpaccio with pepper, tomato, avocado on a water bread. Carpaccio is italian or something. It means NOT FUCKING COOKED. Gross. Margie’s on that one.

So Kasey’s got a fresh crab, lemon, parsley and caper salad with ricotta on a crostini. That’d be on a bread-y thing.

Alex is enjoying his time slicing up his meat to sear it in a pan and then slice it. Soooo that’d be raw as well then.

Kasey can’t pronounce carpaccio but she knows it’s raw tuna. The whole thing is pretty fancy for her.

Then Kasey gives Michael a heads up – she can’t cut up the avocado. She hates the stuff. Thinks it’s disgusting. She’s not even sure why, she just can’t stand it.
Michael says Mish probably eats it every day. Well, good for her, Kasey says.

Then he might as well cut up the red onion for her, she says. But she has to peel it first.

Brenda’s having fun with it. She says she can win a man over with her cooking, definitely.
Michael says her cooking smells the best today. Brenda looks quite pleased at that!

They’ve got really fresh crab for Margie’s salad. Wait, I thought Margie had tuna? They’ve swapped them all around, argh!
Good food doesn’t have to be complicated, Michael says.
Ricotta’s a good spread replacement for margarine because it has a very low fat content (4%) while also having a good amount of protein. Good for both sweet and savoury dishes, he says.

The guests are on their way and Margie’s not feeling any nerves or anything, just looking forward to meeting new people.

Michael wanders around showing them all how to prepare their dishes then and they all get a bunch of their dishes prepared and plated up. Kasey thinks she might even start doing more cooking when she gets home now, which will be a surprise for her family!

Time for the contestants to get flammed up and ready for their party! Makeups and dresses and their hairs did.
Kasey thinks it’ll be a fun night. Margie’s promising to keep an eye on the young men for her as Kasey doesn’t normally do this kind of thing.
Kasey’s gone out with friends a few times and been a bit of a wallflower. Why would anyone want to talk to her, etc.

Alex says it’s been a long time since he’s been out flirting with the opposite sex but maybe it’s time for some of the flirting to come back his way.

The trainers turn up in their fancypants while the contestants are still getting dolled up. Alex says to Steve that he’s looking forward to it, though a couple of months ago he’d’ve been terrified.

First cocktail party in her thirties for years for Brenda. She doesn’t have to say 38 is her bio age, does she? She can just say 38, right? It’s not quite a lie, Shannan says!

Kasey’s never been to a cocktail party before so she’s excited. Tiff’s almost as excited for her.

Mish says Margie’s looking good and Margie’s feeling quite confident in the way she looks too. Though it’s been a while since she’s been flirty, she thinks she’ll still have it.

The cocktail party is being held… in the weigh in room. Which, to be fair, does look pretty nice when it’s all spiffed up.
Mish says many of the people are from Oasis Active dating service.

They can let their hair down a little tonight, Steve says. Though maybe not Alex since he doesn’t have anything up there.

Hayley introduces the contestants to the crowd to much cheering and applause. The contestants look chuffed at the attention.

Hayley then explains that the crowd is colour coded with stickers. Anyone with a red sticker is for Margie, anyone with blue is for Brenda, anyone with white is for Kasey and anyone with black is, of course, for Alex.

Alex starts meeting all his peoples and gets some kisses on the cheek. Go Alex!

MARGIE HAS LADIES! Hooray! We love lesbians!

Kasey’s got some handsome guys around her and Margie says Kasey’s loving the attention. One of her guys is… well, morbidly obese. Fixer-upper?
One of them is into quadbikes, one is something unaudible.

Huge guy is a counsellor. Kasey seems super unimpressed by that.

Jacob, one of the guys for Kasey, is a little nervous but he picks up one of her little canapes. Only eats one bite of it because he mustn’t like it but Kasey seems pleased he made the effort anyway.

Brenda’s having fun, too. She says she’s more confident in social situations now though she’s always been a bit of a flirt!
Then she notices that some of Alex’s women are trying to pick up some of her men! She tries to shoo them away with a laugh but she’s obviously having a bit of fun with it.

Kasey and Margie have a chat on the sidelines. Kasey’s Margie’s wingman tonight! Just like they will be when they’re back in Brisbane, apparently. Margie’s getting mobbed by the lesbiladies, Kasey says.
Margie also says Kasey looks really good tonight. Then asks Kasey if she wants to, like, get together? Kasey laughs and says it’s lucky they share a bedroom!

Then Kasey finds one of Margie’s actual women, introduces the two and takes that as her cue to leave.

Margie wants to warn all the women hanging around Alex that he’s a bit of a wild one.

They even have a live band and a dance floor in the weigh in room. Brenda manages to coax one of the guys out onto the dancefloor and they get jiggy with it, old people style. Yeah!

One of the guys she chats to next has come from Parramatta. ALL THE WAY FROM PARRAMATTA? Wow, you’ve travelled so far to meet Brenda, how amazing!
Brenda’s being very open with this guy too, saying she’s 40 and not making any secret of it. She’s still hoping to have a family though, life’s not over yet!
Guy seems a little perturbed. Run away! RUN AWAY!

Then the crazy lady from the teasers and ads brings Alex a drink at his little table. It’s an apple drink because her friends call her Apple for some reason.
Leanne, English lady. Liverpool to be exact. But she’s an Everton FC fan. So she hates Alex’s team? No, she hates Manchester United. But everyone hates them, Alex says.

Hey man, FUCK YOU! Manchester United foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Leanne’s into a lot of the same things as Alex and is a cheeky girl, she says. Alex warns her to be careful, he’s been locked in there for weeks now. And been sharing a room with Graham for most of it! He must be going bonkers, she says.
Leanne’s got tiny shorts on and she has to readjust herself and excuses herself and Alex nearly dies. Nice sight, Alex? Ha!

Hayley’s now going to pull the contestants aside for some one on one time, Kasey’s first with Anthony, one of her boys. They’re both Queenslanders and thus SCUM.
Ahem.

Anthony says he didn’t recognise her at first but then he realised it’s Kasey. There’s some more awkward conversation thereafter, mostly about her time at Camp and looking forward to getting out. Anthony says Kasey looked good at Makeover, too. Awww!
Kasey can’t remember the last time a guy has said anything like that to her.
And afterwards Anthony’s got some nice things to say about Kasey, he seems a little smitten. Interesting!

Then, living up to stereotypes, Margie’s one on one is with a fellow ex-footballing lady named Genevieve, though Margie might have known her as worm. They actually played on the same team for a few games many, many years ago and she’s very complimentary of Margie’s skills on the footy field.
Genevieve’s a pretty fit lady, Margie says, and not bad looking with it. I… don’t see it myself, but okay.
Genevieve says when she recognised Margie on the show she was inspired by what they were all doing to change their lives. She tells us she thinks Margie’s great and they’ve got a lot in common, lot of common interests and they’re both pretty cheeky.

Alex is having a good time, he says in a little chat with Kasey. Kasey’s amused by all the attention he’s getting and asks him if he has a favourite and Alex admits he’s taken a shine to Leanne, the English lady. And Kasey’s talked to her and she approves!

Alex is hoping to give her a call after the show to catch up, perhaps. You never know.
They’re sitting on a couch and Alex pulls out a pen and paper and asks her to jot down her phone number for him.

That’s when she does the line, “The real one or the fake one?” Alex pauses a moment and says both! Leanne says she only will if he really will call. Awwwww!

End of the night they’re all on the dance floor, Hayley included and they’re all trying to dance. Kasey’s getting some instruction from Anthony but doing pretty poorly at it.
Alex is doing some twirls with Leanne and Margie says she hasn’t even thought about her weight once tonight.
Brenda says it was a great night and they’ve all had a lot of fun.

Tomorrow night, Legends!
John Eales, Melanie Cook, Eamon Sullivan and LOSER LEGEND BOB! YAY BOB!

The ex/current-athletes all look good, of course. But Bob! Bob’s looking very healthy, which is simply wonderful to see.

Then they’re back to the Glenworth valley obstacle course they did so very long ago. And this time instead of just having to complete the course with a fellow contestant they’ll be strapped with bungee cord to their TRAINERS.
Yes, that’s right, the trainers are going to do the course this time. Yay!

Margie says being attached to Mish was a dream of her’s. Mish smirks and says Margie’s only human!