Previously on The Biggest Loser we said goodbye to Terry, the first eliminated contestant of the year. He seems to be doing well on the outside, so it’s not all bad news.

But there’s a lot of bad news back at Camp as the rest of the Pestell family has turned snarky. Er. Snarkier.

Tonight we find out what the prize was from last night’s challenge and then it’s time for Dr Swan to reveal the contestant Bio Ages. Later on… PIGS! IN! MUD! Guaranteed to be a mess and cause a fuss.

Tenealle opens the case and inside is a cheque for $20,000. But they don’t get to keep it, it has to be given to one of the other families. But if the family accepts it they have to leave the house immediately. They’re already throwing that in there? Put it on the Pestells, they’d probably run away and buy pies!

Next day, when Tenealle has to reveal the power to the rest of the house, everyone is speculating on what it could be. Johnee’s hoping she’s gone from the house with $100,000. But that’s not it, we already know.

Tenealle opens up the case and shows everyone the cheque for $20,000. Everyone says wow and then someone asks whose is it? Johnee’s mentally spending it already, but then Tenealle tells them all it’s not for her. The money is for one contestant only, not a whole family like I thought. And the catch is, if you accept the money you have to leave the competition immediately.

Tenealle asks for some time with her family first to discuss the decision because she doesn’t want to make the call herself. She tells her family her first option is Sam from the Hailwoods because she’s the smallest and they’re a big threat. Her other idea was to give it to someone on her own family, for them to refuse it.

Johnee suggests Rob from Jofres as Rob is a Dad and might need the money, plus he’s a big loser of weight, so if he took the money it would knock him out of the game.

Meanwhile the other families are discussing whether they’d take it. It could pay off a lot of bills, pay to get them a personal trainer on the outside. Cliff says the money isn’t going to melt 100kg off his body. Sam, his partner, is a bit tempted as it’s been a tough week and the money would be very useful to them.

Rob’s got a wedding to pay for, Ali says, it’d help him. But they’re all thinking mostly that they haven’t learnt enough yet to make it on the outside.

Tenealle and the rest of the Auvales come back to the loungeroom for the announcement. She’s decided to offer the money to… yes, there’s an ad break here.

Tenealle’s decided to offer the money to Sam. Sam’s shocked and barely reacts, but everyone’s looking at her. Tenealle says Sam’s the smallest girl in the house, she has a young family at home and the money would be a great help to them. And Cliff will still be in the house working out with Sam’s sisters.

Johnee tells us they’re going to take the Hailwoods out one by one.

The trainers arrive and Mish asks what they’re all doing sitting on the couch! They let the trainers know about the twist overnight and Mish says to us, “Welcome back to Biggest Loser, Mish!”

Tiffiny tells us she’d be crushed if Sam left, wasn’t she there to get fit and healthy? Was she just there for the money?

Been a tough first week, Shannan says, they’ve all lost good numbers on the scales but their journey is about more than the raw numbers. Their lifestyle has taken a terrible toll on their bodies and now it’s time to get the full picture from Dr Swan.

Hi again Dr Swan! Ali tells us she recognised him immediately and she’s worried because she knows the sort of things he reveals to contestants.

Today Dr Swan is going to reveal the toll their lifestyle has had on their bodies. They had a 3D infrared scan, cool! To take measurements… and stuff.

Tenealle’s Age: 26
Body Age: 38

Yikes! Dr Swan just jumps straight in and asks how long they’ve been trying to have kids. No easing into it, Doc? Geez. She’s been trying since they got married, six years. She really wants to be a Mum and they’ve been through 7 IVF cycles, unsuccessfully. Tenealle’s in tears and her noses goes redder and redder, it’s a Loser miracle!

All the fat cells in her body produce oestrogen, the same thing that’s in the oral contraceptive. So she’s a “walking oral contraceptive”. That’s not nice! It does the same thing in men, Dr Swan says. That’s not helping them get pregnant.

Johnee’s Age: 37
Body Age: 52

Jodie’s Age: 31
Body Age: 41

Pablo’s Age: 29
Body Age: 42

Rob’s Age: 42
Body Age: 57

Tony’s Age: 27
Body Age: 44

Tony’s a smoker, or an ex-smoker he says. I assume they’re not allowing him ciggies at Camp. Dr Swan says if you smoke 20 a day from the age of 20 and don’t stop, you lose 20 years off your life. If you stop, the benefits are immediate so long as you stay off them.

Cliff’s Age: 26
Body Age: 38

His cholesterol levels are up, which can affect your heart. Dr Swan has some preserved heart slices to show off. One is healthy, pink flesh with just some white fatty deposits. The other is more like a slab of fat than a heart. The fat builds up and eventually you get a clot and have a heart attack. Which is what happened to Cliff’s Dad and ultimately killed him. Cliff’s heart would look like an old man’s heart right now, but he can turn that around. It’s one of the most preventable issues among all the ones they’re talking about today.

Sylvia’s Age: 28
Body Age: 37

She has three little girls at home and, again, she feels like she’s been letting them down.

And now, Tiffiny’s going to put on the extra weight. Dr Swan and Shannan put 30kg on Tiffiny first, which we already know is more than half Tiffiny’s actual weight. Try carrying half your weight some time, it’s not fun!

Then they load up another 50kg on her, for a total of 80kg. Sylvia felt really bad seeing her with the 30kg vest on, she’s crushed when Tiffiny does more.

But that’s not all the weight. Tiffiny is asked if she can handle some more and she says yes, so they put some ankle weights and some additional bags on straps off the main packs. Dr Swan asks Tiff if she can walk and Tiff bravely staggers a couple of steps but can’t get any further. She says it feels disgusting, she hates the feeling. It’s painful. If Sylvia’s strong enough to carry all that then she’s strong enough to channel it into training and a positive mindset.

Sylvia’s quite embarassed to see Tiffiny struggling to even breathe. Tiff is very relieved when they take the weights back off her. It won’t be so easy for Sylvia, of course, but Tiffiny will help get her there.

Dr Swan tells them all they need to think beyond walking out of Camp. They’ve got to get rid of the fat in their diets, get into exercise and get their heart and muscles working properly and their brains will thank them and they’ll have those extra years of life they all want.

Everyone suitably chastened, it’s time to train! Tiffiny’s team is first up. Tiff says the team should be living it up like 20 year olds but they’ve all aged so much more than that.

Sylvia’s working hard, channelling all the emotion from Dr Swan’s session. She’s come a long way, Tiff says. Sylvia’s amazed she can get through a session without crying or giving up now, there’s still some tears but it’s because of all the sweat. They’re fat tears, one of the other girls says. Sylvia’s going to be a sexy MILF at her daughter’s wedding, Sam says. Heh.

Tiff has a chat after the session, getting them to work together to lift a heavy weight. Then she has Sam step away from the bar to show how much harder it will be for them to carry on with just the three of them.

After an ad break the Pestells are in the spin gym. Before they start training they decide to have a chat about what happened at The Game. Shannan tells us he’s never had a group of three so committed to fighting amongst themselves.

Mel got upset with the other two. She tells us that as the eldest she should have been the first to have a boyfriend and a family but Ali has Tilly and Jodie has her partner Anthony. And it hasn’t happened for her.

Mel says she came to change her life, not argue. Shannan says she’s got to stick up for herself and Mel knows she has to speak up and hope the other two listen. Jodie says they had this problem earlier in the day where they’d be sitting together and they’d ask Mel a question and she wouldn’t answer. Mel says she doesn’t speak up because they don’t listen, but they do listen, Jodie insists. Shannan says Mel is scared because the others will gang up her, as they’re doing now. Shannan then hushes them and puts his hand to his ear and asks if they can hear that? It’s the Auvales getting on with their training.

The girls finally realise they’re just wasting time when they could be exercising. It’s not the start Shannan wanted. But Mel’s going to speak up more and the other two are going to have to listen more.

Shannan’s pushing the girls hard on the spin bikes and so by the end of the session they’ve stopped arguing. He says it’s one of the best sessions they’ve had, just a short 25 minute but they smashed it. Good luck with the challenge tomorrow and look after each other, he says on the way out.

If they only trained for 25 minutes how bloody long did they argue for? Poor Shannan!

Next day they’re off into the cars and to a super secret location for the pigs in mud challenge! It’s a big mud pit and Fiona looks very clean in front of it.

Glenworth Valley, home of the Stampede, is where the dirty mudhole is located and it is, indeed, another four way tug of war challenge. Nobody is very excited at that prospect.

First to get a flag, wins the round. Win a round, lose a family member. First team to collect all three flags wins the challenge. There’s only three flags because the Pestells only have three contestants left, meaning the other three teams will also have to sit a person out.

But it’s going to be worth all the mud and effort as Immunity is up for grabs.

Contestants, are you ready? Ready, steady, spaghetti!

Interestingly, the Auvales have sat Johnee out. Is he injured or are they really stupid? Use him as an anchor, the other teams won’t be pulling him through the mud!

Round one and the Jofres are making the best progress, but the other teams are still fighting back. None of the girls are going all in on the mud just yet, which is holding them back a bit.

Turns out Johnee has an achilles injury, that’s why he had to sit out. Makes sense now!

Jodie’s disgusted by the mud when she eventually has to touch it. Better get used to it!

Hailwoods are trying to use Cliff as an anchor to prevent the other teams dragging them back while the girls try to pull them forward. It was going okay until one of the girls got mud in her mouth and started falling over.

But it doesn’t matter as the Jofres have managed to drag themselves to victory with Daniel grabbing a flag just ahead of Tony. Tony decides to sit out as Daniel felt 100% and Pablo felt like he had something to prove.

Round two, fight!

Down to two, the Jofres are getting pulled a bit more this time but they’re hunkering down and trying to keep the team opposite, the Auvales, from pulling them backwards.

The Hailwoods are trying to use Cliff as an anchor point to push off of, but it’s not working too well. And then Cliff’s pants start falling down, oops!

Rina’s up on her feet and hungry to get the flag, she makes a desperate dive just as an ad break arrives…

As it turns out, she managed to just grab it and the Auvales have won a round now too. Rina says it felt like she’d won a gold medal, Moses says it was good to see Rina have so much energy in her today.

The Auvales decide to have Tenealle step out as Tenealle and Johnee won The Game for them and so it’s Moses and Rina’s job to win this for them.

No alliances were in play before the tug of war kicked off, apparently. But then the Jofres decide to lend a hand to the Pestells against the Hailwoods, since they figured anything they could do to tire out the Hailwoods would be to their advantage. The Hailwoods are surprised as they thought the Jofres were their friends in the house. Cliff flips his shit and starts hollering at them, saying it’s not a proper tug of war if two teams are working together. It’s called strategy, Cliff!

Cliff’s pretty much given up, which is the wrong way to go, they should have moved across quickly to pull with the Auvales!

But it’s too late, the Pestells manage to grab a flag. They’re quite excited to be beating the Hailwoods at something. Bit of a chuckle they have over that, because they’re lovely aren’t they!

Tony’s calling for Cliff to calm down but Cliff’s having none of it. Tells us they should have never crossed the Hailwoods.

All of this will be continuing to bubble away on Sunday night, with another argument breaking out and Cliff calling Ali a mole. It’s been so long since I’ve heard someone get called a mole!

Then at the weigh in the Hailwoods try to apologise but the Pestells are having none of it, causing Shannan to exclaim that if arguing burned calories they’d be winning every week. Hah!

Also, a medical emergency, the first for the series but probably not the last. One of the Hailwoods goes down and is carted off in an ambulance. It’s not clear if it’s an injury, heat exhaustion, heart attack…

You might have to tune in next week. Or read the recap. Or run off to join the circus, I don’t care!